Manuscript Identifiers

Collection:UPenn Ms. Coll. 390
Item:391
Repository:Rare Book & Manuscript Library
Institution:University of Pennsylvania
Location:Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Catalog:Poleman
Item:1366

Contents

Work 1

Locus:ff. 1r–24v (complete)
Author:Kṛṣṇa Dvaipāyana Vyāsa
Title:Karuṇāmṛta
Incipit: f. 1r:

õ namoṁ jīyakadaṁtāā daivāṁ
gaurīcāṁ yāsutā ..
karuṅākarādayāṁ vaṁtā
laṁbo darā ādīmurttī ..1..

namanamājhe sāra
jemāyeṁ .. majalāptapādṛṣṭī pāheṁ ..
vāceṁhā
rī guṅagāyoṁ rau . sīsauyeṁ majayāvī ..2..

na
manamājheṁ śrīgurunāthā . dayālakāveṁ jī
samarthā ..
hārīguṇanāmāmṛtakathā .. vada
vī ātāṁyathārucī .3..
Explicit: f24r-f24v:

cītrabhā nyānāmasavatsare śrāva
ṇamāsī ..
bhomavāra trayodasī dīvasī
graṁthasaṁpūrṇasamā ābhītvaresī . jro
tīsāvakāsaparīsīje .144.
Final rubric: f. 24v:
itī śrī
bhāgavṛte mahāpurāṇe . karuṇāmrata
graṁtha saṁpūrṇam astu ..
Colophon:none
Note:Missing folios 15–16 containing verses 88–99. The final rubric situates the work in the Bhāgavatapurāṇa; yet the work is written in Mahārāṣṭrī Prākṛta rather than in Sanskrit. The closing verse –- which reads more like a colophon and may have been in a previous model manuscript –- states that the work was completed on Tuesday, on the thirteenth day (presumably in the bright fortnight) in the month of śrāvaṇa in the year called citrabhā, but does not provide number of the year or the era. Preceding verses provide some information about the author and place of composition.
Language: Mahārāṣṭrī Prākṛta in Devanāgarī script

Physical description

Form:Folia
Material:Paper.
Extent:22
Dimension:10.4 x 14.9 cm
Collation: Paired folios.
Formula:1–2, 3–4, 5–6, 7–8, 9–10, 11-12, 13–14, 17–18, 19–20, 21–22, 23–24
Condition:Excellent with minor stains and cracked edges.
Binding: Unbound.
Accompanying material:The native wrapping paper has written on it, " karuṇāmṛtam (mahārāṣṭṛā-bhāṣāyām)"
Layout:Written in 8 lines per page.

Hands

Hand 1:Written in clear, bold, regular characters, tilted slightly left, in straight lines.
Additions:

In the top margin on f. 1r is written “karuṇāmṛtam naṁ0 16 pa0 24”

Mistakes are written over.

Decoration

Color:Double daṇḍas are written in red.
Border:A set of vertical double red lines rules the left and right margins of the text on each page.

History

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. ”

Subject headings

SubjectLC:Bhāgavatapurāṇa
SubjectLC:Manuscripts, Sanskrit – 19th century.
SubjectLC:Manuscripts – India – 19th century.
SubjectSL:Purāṇa. Ancient Cosmogony, Genealogy, Narrative

Facsimile

Whole imageIndividual pages
f. 1rf. 1r  
f. 1v,f. 2rf. 1v  f. 2r  
f. 2v,f. 3rf. 2v  f. 3r  
f. 3v,f. 4rf. 3v  f. 4r  
f. 4v,f. 5rf. 4v  f. 5r  
f. 5v,f. 6rf. 5v  f. 6r  
f. 6v,f. 7rf. 6v  f. 7r  
f. 7v,f. 8rf. 7v  f. 8r  
f. 8v,f. 9rf. 8v  f. 9r  
f. 9v,f. 10rf. 9v  f. 10r  
f. 10v,f. 11rf. 10v  f. 11r  
f. 11v,f. 12rf. 11v  f. 12r  
f. 12v,f. 13rf. 12v  f. 13r  
f. 13v,f. 14rf. 13v  f. 14r  
f. 14v,f. 17rf. 14v  f. 17r  
f. 17v,f. 18rf. 17v  f. 18r  
f. 18v,f. 19rf. 18v  f. 19r  
f. 19v,f. 20rf. 19v  f. 20r  
f. 20v,f. 21rf. 20v  f. 21r  
f. 21v,f. 22rf. 21v  f. 22r  
f. 22v,f. 23rf. 22v  f. 23r  
f. 23v,f. 24rf. 23v  f. 24r  
f. 24vf. 24v  


Transcription (Manuscript Layout)

f.1r
Line 1: śrīgaṇeśāya nama .. śrīsarasvatīye nama śrī
Line 2: gurubhyo nama .. õ namoṁ jīyakadaṁtāā daivāṁ
Line 3: gaurīcāṁ yāsutā .. karuṅākarādayāṁ vaṁtā
Line 4: laṁbo darā ādīmurttī ..1..
namanamājhe sāra
Line 5: jemāyeṁ .. majalāptapādṛṣṭī pāheṁ .. vāceṁhā
Line 6: rī guṅagāyoṁ rau . sīsauyeṁ majayāvī ..2..
na
Line 7: manamājheṁ śrīgurunāthā . dayālakāveṁ jī
Line 8: samarthā .. hārīguṇanāmāmṛtakathā .. vada
f.1v
Line 1: vī ātāṁyathārucī .3.. [
f.14v
Line 6: [ brīdāsāṭīdhāvadyesī .. yāceru
Line 7: patuṁpragaṭaṇāsī .. rājājālāsaṁtosī .. pavā
Line 8: guruṣīkesīkāyecāṇu ..87..
muktesva [missing 2 leaves, Missing folios 15–16 containing verses 88–99]
f.17r
Line 1: strahotāṁ cībalīyāḍeṁ . dhā . ṇeṁrokaḍe
Line 2: nīdyāleṁ .100.. [
f.24r
Line 6: [ cītrabhā nyānāmasavatsare śrāva
Line 7: ṇamāsī .. bhomavāra trayodasī dīvasī
Line 8: graṁthasaṁpūrṇasamā ābhītvaresī . jro
f.24v
Line 1: tīsāvakāsaparīsīje .144.
itī śrī
Line 2: bhāgavṛte mahāpurāṇe . karuṇāmrata
Line 3: graṁtha saṁpūrṇam astu .. śrīkranpārthaṇam astu
Line 4: 159
Record revised:25 March 2012