Collection: | UPenn Ms. Coll. 390 |
Item: | 2352 |
Repository: | Rare Book & Manuscript Library |
Institution: | University of Pennsylvania |
Location: | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America |
Catalog: | Poleman |
Item: | 1359 |
Locus: | ff. 1r–14v |
Author: | Kṛṣṇa Dvaipāyana Vyāsa |
Title: | Bhāgavatapurāṇa |
Part: | Skandha 10 |
Colophon: | none |
Language: | Sanskrit in Devanāgarī script |
Locus: | ff. 1r–13v |
Part: | Adhyāya 87 |
Incipit: |
f. 1r
parikṣid uvāca .. brahman brahmaṇy anirdeśye nirguṇe guṇavṛttayaḥ .. kathaṁ caranti śrutayaḥ sākṣāt sadasataḥ pare ..1.. (Anuṣṭubh) ( BhP. 10.87.1 ) |
Explicit: |
f. 13v
yo !t!<'>syotprekṣaka ādimadhyanidhane yo <'>vyaktajīveśvaro yaḥ sṛṣṭvedam anupraviṣṭa ṛṣiṇā cakre puraḥ śāsti tāḥ .. yaṁ sampadya jahāty ajām anuśayī suptaḥ kulāyaṁ yathā taṁ kaivalyanirastayonim abhayaṁ dhyāyed ajasraṁ harim ..50.. ( BhP. 10.87.50 ) (Śārdūlavikrīḍita) |
Final rubric: |
f. 13v
itiśrībhāgavate mahāpurāṇe daśamaskaṁde saptāśītitamo <'>dhyāyaḥ .. ..87.. .. |
Locus: | f. 14r |
Part: | Adhyāya 86.56–59 |
Incipit: |
f. 14r
carācaram idaṁ viśvaṁ bhāvā ye cāsya hetavaḥ .. madrūpāṇīti cetasy ādhatte vipro madīkṣayā ..56.. ( BhP. 10.86.56 ) (Anuṣṭubh) |
Explicit: |
f. 14r
evaṁ svabhaktayo rājan bhagavān bhāktabhaktimān .. uṣitvādiśya sanmārgaṁ punar dvāravatīm agāt ..59.. ( BhP. 10.86.59 ) (Anuṣṭubh) |
Final rubric: |
f. 14r
iti śrībhāgavate mahāpurāṇe daśamaskaṁdhe maithilasadgatiprāpaṇaṁ nāma ṣaḍaśītitamaḥ ..86.. |
Locus: | ff. 1r–14v |
Author: | Śrīdharasvāmin |
Part: | ad skandha 10 |
Colophon: | none |
Note: | The manuscript contains the text of the Bhāgavatapurāṇa with Śrīdharasvāmin's commentary Bhāgavatabhāvārthadīpikā on skandha 10, adhyaya 87 on f. 1r–f. 13v. On f. 14r is found the text and commentary on 10.86.56–59, and the commentary's introduction to 10.87 again. There are minor variations between the first and second copies of the five introductory verses to 10.87. The inclusion of the text on f. 14r out of sequence cannot be explained by a misplaced folio, since the folio is attached to f. 13, nor by an addition, since it is written in the same hand. Apparently the scribe began to copy again from the incorrect location in the model manuscript or from a different manuscript. |
Language: | Sanskrit in Devanāgarī script |
Locus: | ff. 1r–13v |
Part: | ad skandha 10, adhyāya 87 |
Incipit: |
f. 1r
saptāśītitame nārāyaṇanāradavādataḥ .. vedai<ḥ> stutir guṇālaṁbā nirguṇāvadhi<r> varṇyate ..1.. ( Kṛṣṇaśaṅkara Śāstrin 1965 vol. 10, part 6, p. 932, 10.87 intro. ) (Anuṣṭubh) õn namo bhagavate vāsudevāya .. ( Kṛṣṇaśaṅkara Śāstrin 1965 vol. 10, part 6, p. 932, 10.87 intro. ) vāgīśā yasya vadane lakṣmīr yasya ca vakṣasi .. yasyāste hṛdaye saṁvit taṁ nṛsi<ṁ>ham ahaṁ bhaje ..2.. ( Kṛṣṇaśaṅkara Śāstrin 1965 vol. 10, part 6, p. 932, 10.87 intro. ) (Anuṣṭubh) |
Explicit: |
f. 13v
<...> kuta etat kaivalyanirastayoniṁ kaivalyenāpracyutasvarūpāvasthānena nirastā tiraskṛtā yonir mūlkāraṇaṁ [?][?]a yena tam .. ( Kṛṣṇaśaṅkara Śāstrin 1965 vol. 10, part 6, p. 1447, ad 10.87.50 ) |
Final rubric: |
f. 13v
iti śrībhāgavate mahāpurāṇe daśamaskaṁdhe saptāśīti!t!<>tamodhyāyaḥ .. |
Locus: | f. 14r |
Part: | ad 10.86.56–59 |
Incipit: |
f. 14r
asya viśvasya hetavo bhāvāḥ mahadādayaḥ madīkṣayā ma[dai](mai)vasarvakṣetreyāḥ ..56.. ( Kṛṣṇaśaṅkara Śāstrin 1965 vol. 10, part 6, p. 924, ad 10.86.56 ) |
Explicit: |
f. 14r
sanmārgaṁ satāṁ vedānāṁ (tri)kāṇḍakriyāṇāṁ pravṛttiprakāram ādiśya ..59.. ( Kṛṣṇaśaṅkara Śāstrin 1965 vol. 10, part 6, p. 928, ad 10.86.59 ) |
Final rubric: |
f. 14r
iti daśame ṣaḍaśītiḥ .. |
Locus: | f. 14r |
Part: | Introduction to 10.87, verses 1–5 |
Incipit: |
f. 14r
saptāśītitame nārāyaṇanāradavādataḥ . vedai<ḥ> stutir guṇālaṁbā nirguṇāvadhir varṇyate ..1.. ( Kṛṣṇaśaṅkara Śāstrin 1965 vol. 10, part 6, p. 932, 10.87 intro. ) (Anuṣṭubh) |
Explicit: |
f. 14r
evaṁ svabhaktayo rājan bhagavān bhaktabhaktimān .. uṣitvādisya sanmārgaṁ puna<r> dvāravatīm agāt ..5.. ( BhP. 10.86.59 ) (Anuṣṭubh) |
Form: | Folia |
Material: | European paper |
Watermark: | A large crown and some text (e.g., "BRI"), likely the same as in UPenn 2184, although the paper is here cut in the opposite direction. |
Extent: | 14 folia |
Dimension: | 10.5 x 30.9 cm (h x w) |
Foliation: | Foliated in the upper left and lower right margins on the verso of each folio on f. 2v , f. 4v , and f. 6v . The enumeration is continued in a different hand in the lower right corner of f. 8v , f. 10v , f. 12v , and f. 14v . The front and back, f. 1r and f. 14v , are blank except for the addition of the number on the back. |
Formula: | [1], 2, [3], 4, [5], 6, [7], 8, [9], 10, [11], 12, [13]–14 |
Signatures: | bhā0 da0 ve0 87 is written above the folio number in the upper left margin on f. 2v, f. 4v, and f. 6v. |
Collation: | Paired folios. |
Formula: | 1–2, 3–4, ..., 13–14 |
Condition: | Very good. There is a grease stain on f. 2 |
Binding: | Unbound |
Seal: | A circular stamp on the right of f. 14v reads Library University Pennsylvania. |
Layout: | Written in 13–16 lines per page in an hourglass arrangement with commentary above and below the base text. However, on f. 14r the commentary picks up in the middle of line 8, at the end of a half line of base text. |
Hand 1: | Written in small bold, regular characters in cramped, wavy lines. |
Additions: |
Mistakes are written over, crossed through, or blotched out with black. |
Border: | Two or more vertical black lines rule the left and right margins of the text on each page. |
Origin: | 18– |
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 – 10. skandha. |
SubjectLC: | Manuscripts, Sanskrit – 19th century. |
SubjectLC: | Manuscripts – India – 19th century. |
SubjectSL: | Purāṇa. Ancient Cosmogony, Genealogy, Narrative |