Collection: | UPenn Ms. Coll. 390 |
Item: | 2310 |
Repository: | Rare Book & Manuscript Library |
Institution: | University of Pennsylvania |
Location: | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America |
Catalog: | Poleman |
Item: | 1383 |
Locus: | ff. 1r–35v |
Author: | Kāśīnātha |
Title: | Vedastuti |
Part: | 10.87.1–50 |
Incipit: |
f. 1v
śrī pāṁḍuraṁgam āmanya pitarau ca gurūn budhān .. śrīśrīdharī(ya)ṭīkāyā vyākhyāṁ kurve śrutistuteḥ ..1.. (Triṣṭubh) |
Explicit: |
f. 35r
asthūlam ityādi .. anādi ahrasvam adīrgham alohitam asteham achāyam atamo vāg anākāśam !asaṁgam aparasaṁm!<asaṁgamam arasam> agaṁdham a cakṣuṣkam aśrotram avāg amanotejaskam aprāṇam amukham amātram anaṁtaram abāhyam ityādi athāta ādeśeneti ne[da]tītyādīni gṛhyate .. evaṁ niyamabhaṁgād vidhimukheṣv api akhaṁḍavākyalakṣaṇayā padārthatvābhāve pi vākyabodhyatvaṁ saṁbhavatītyāśayenāha .. lakṣaṇayā ca tatvam asīti lakṣaṇayeti niṣedhamukheṣv api draṣṭavyaṁ .. etaddhrasvīndriyeti śloke upapāditam ity alaṁ .. aṁttaryāmīsarvavit dīnanātha(ḥ) śrīmatsvāmīviṭhṭhalo devadevaḥ .. tenaivāhaṁ preritas tatra!s! tatra taṁ taṁ bhāvaṁ vyaktam ākārṣam itthaṁ ..1.. (Triṣṭubh) na mīmāṁsāpravīṇo haṁ na kāṇādoktipāragaḥ pauvāparyaṁ vārttikeṣu śrutibhāṣyāṇisarvaśaḥ ..2.. (Anuṣṭubh) samyag etāny anālocyākurvi vyākhyāṁ subodhinīṁ śrutistuteḥ śrīdharīyakṛtau tatkṣamyatāṁ budhaiḥ (Anuṣṭubh) iti śrīmadanaṁtopādhyāya!su!<sū>nur imāṁ kṛtiṁ .. kṛtvā paryat[ū] kṛṣṇapade kā[śi](śī)nāthābhidho dvijaḥ ..4.. (Anuṣṭubh) |
Final rubric: |
f. 35r
iti śrīmadanaṁtopādhyāyasūnukā[śi](śī)nāthopādhyāyaviracitā vedastutau śrīdharīyaṭīkāvyākhyā samāptā .. |
Colophon: |
f. 35r
idaṁ pustakaṁ moreśvarasya sūn!ur!<or> aṁganāthamarāṭhedīkṣitasya śa[e]ke 1765 śobhakṛnnāmasaṁvatsare mārga[śra]śīrṣakṛṣṇasaptamyāṁ śrīvāī kṣetre samāptā likhitaṁ nārāyaṇena ..[7].. õ tat sat .. graṁthasaṁkhyā 111 |
Note: | The manuscript contains the vyākhyā by Kāṣīnātha, son of Ananta Upādhyāya, on the Vedastuti, called Śrutistuti in the opening verse and in verse two and verse three of the closing verses, which consists of the first chapter of the second half of the tenth skandha of the Bhāgavatapurāṇa ((BhP. 10.87.1-50)). The title of the section is more fully Vedakṛtabrahmastuti being the praise made by the vedas of brahman, which is without any qualities and the substrate of all qualities. The opening verse invokes the name Pānduraṅga and the first closing verse the name Viṭhṭhala, two names of a form of the child Kṛṣṇa worshiped in the region of Maharashtra, Karnataka, and neighboring areas. |
Language: | Sanskrit in Devanāgarī script |
Form: | Folia |
Material: | European paper |
Watermark: | The first set of paper has a watermark that consists of a crest with a figure or animal in the middle; some lettering: “A”, and possibly “MO”; “GW”; “IS”; “ARD” and possibly a “40”; “S”; “GWA”. The second set of paper starting on f. 17, has a watermark consisting of the same crest, possibly the Britania crest, with the letters “LA”, “DH”, and “Din” and the numerals “18” and opposite it “49”, possibly “1840” or “1842”. |
Extent: | 35 folia |
Dimension: | 9.8 x 30.9 cm (h x w) |
Foliation: | Foliated in the upper left and lower right margins on the verso of each folio, except the last which is numbered on the recto ( f. 35r ), and f. 1v and f. 3v , which are missing the number in the lower right margin. |
Formula: | 1–35 |
Signatures: | ve0 bhā0 appears above the folio number in the upper left margin on f. 1v–f. 2v; vedastu0 bhā0 on f. 4v, f. 6v–f. 9v; vedastu0 on f. 5v, f. 10v, f24v; vedastu0 ṭi0 on f. 11v; veda0 ṭī0 on f. 12v, f. 35r; and most completely vedastu0 ṭī0 on f. 13v–f. 13v, f. 25v–f. 34v. |
Collation: | Single folia |
Condition: | Very good; the paper is quite brittle. |
Binding: | Unbound |
Seal: | A circular stamp on the right of f. 1r and f. 35v reads Library University Pennsylvania. |
Layout: | Written in 9 lines per page. |
Hand 1: | Written in clear, bold, erect, regular characters in straight lines. |
Additions: |
Mistakes are covered over with yellow. One or more marginal corrections appear on nearly every page, and lengthy additions on several, e.g. f. 2v, f. 10v, f. 16v, f. 17r, f. 18r, etc. |
Color: | Mistakes are covered over with a yellow that is not entirely opaque. Orange powder is rubbed in over the invocation and pratīkas. |
Origin: | The colophon states that the manuscript was completed on the seventh tithi of the dark fortnight in the month of mārgaśīrṣa in the year 1765, called śobhakṛt, of the śaka era, which corresponds with 13 December 1843 A.D. by the scribe Nārāyaṇa in śrīvāī kṣetra for Aṅganātha Marāṭhe Dīkṣita, the son of moreśvara. |
Acquisition: |
David Nelson (2000: 203) describes the acquisition of the Sanskrit manuscripts in the University of Pennsylvania Library as follows:
The University of Pennsylvania Library possesses a collection of almost 3,300 Indic manuscripts, the largest such collection in the Western hemisphere. While the vast majority of these manuscripts are from India, there are also a number of manuscripts from Burma, Thailand, Sri Lanka, and Tibet. Some of the manuscripts had been acquired in chance fashion by the Library and the University Museum before 1930, but in that year, at the request of Professor W. Norman Brown (1892–1975), Provost Josiah Penniman provided a sum of money to purchase Indic manuscripts. Shortly thereafter he obtained a donation from the late Mr. John Gribbel. Substantial contributions from Dr. Charles W. Burr, the Faculty Research Fund, and the Cotton Fund soon followed. The bulk of the manuscripts are the result of purchases made using these funds in India, between 1930 and 1935, under the direction of Professor W. Norman Brown. |
SubjectLC: | Bhāgavatapurāṇa |
SubjectLC: | Manuscripts, Sanskrit – 19th century. |
SubjectLC: | Manuscripts – India – 19th century. |
SubjectSL: | Purāṇa. Ancient Cosmogony, Genealogy, Narrative |