Manuscript Identifiers

Collection:UPenn Ms. Coll. 390
Item:2623
Repository:Rare Book & Manuscript Library
Institution:University of Pennsylvania
Location:Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Catalog:Poleman
Item:1351

Contents

Work 1

Locus:f. 1v-142 (complete)
Author:śrīdharasvāmin
Title:bhāgavatabhāvārthadīpikā
Incipit: f. 1v:
viśvasargavisargādi navalakṣaṇalakṣitaṃ ||
śrīkṛṣṇākhayaṃ paraṃ dhāma jagaddhāma namāma tat
(BhP.S.BhD. 10.1.1 Sb10-1_0001.tif )
Final rubric: f. 142:
i śrī ga te hā rā da ma dhe ko maṃ śa mo yaḥ || 48 ||
(cf. BhP.S.BhD. 10(P).49.39 Sb10-4_989.tif )
Filiation:UP2617, and UP2624; likely filiation with UP2618, UP2620, UP2621, UP2622, and UP2627; possible affiliation with UP2619, UP2626 and UP2628.
Language:Sanskrit in Devanagari script

Work 2

Locus:f. 1v-142 (complete)
Author:kṛṣṇa dvaipāyana vyāsa
Title:bhāgavatapurāṇa
Part:skandha 10, pūrvārdha
Incipit: f. 1v:
rājovāca || kathito vaṃśacistāro bhavatā somasūryayoḥ || ...
(BhP. 10.01.01 Sb10-1_001.tif )
Explicit: f. 142:
... pratyabhāṣata dharmajño bhagavān bādarāyaniḥ ||39||
(BhP. 01.19.40 Sb01_808.tif )
Final rubric: f. 142:
i śrī ga te hā rā da ma dhe ko maṃ śa mo yaḥ || 48 || pūrvārdhaḥ samāptaḥ ||
(BhP. 10(P).49.39 Sb10-4_989.tif )
Filiation:UP2617, and UP2624; likely filiation with UP2618, UP2620, UP2621, UP2622, and UP2627; possible affiliation with UP2619, UP2626 and UP2628.
Language:Sanskrit in Devanagari script

Physical description

Form:folia
Material:country paper. Thicker stock of paper used from ff. 24r-39v.
Extent:143
Dimension:16.5-17.5; folios vary x 34-35; folios vary cm
Foliation:last folio is blank
Collation:single folia
Condition:good-very good; paper is aged, stained, and edges worn. Some of the beginning folios are brittle
Layout:seven to eighteen lines; most have eleven to eighteen lines, but f. 135r:
has seven lines.

Hands

Hand 1:Some additions in margins are by different hands. Second scribe ff. 14r-15v, though additional text is consistent withe rest of the ms.
Additions:

A few marginal corrections. The text continues into the right margin on many folios.

Decoration

Color:Double daṇḍas and every other syllable of introductions of speakers in red or purple. Mistakes covered over with yellow or red. The letters to be in red have not been written in for the colophons. The same for the double daṇḍas and letters on some folios. Some folios are missing red daṇḍas -- f. 110r-v:
and f.112r-v.

History

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. ”

Facsimile

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Transcription

Commentary:
f. 1v:
oṃ svasti || śrīgaṇeś{ā}ya namaḥ || śrīkṛṣṇāyanamaḥ || oṃ viśvasargavisargādi navalakṣaṇalakṣitaṃ ||
śrīkṛṣṇākhayaṃ paraṃ dhāma jagaddhāma namāma tat ...
(BhP.S.BhD. 10.1.1 Sb10-1_0001.tif ) mū:
f. 1v:
rājovāca || kathito vaṃśacistāro bhavatā somasūryayoḥ || ...
(BhP. 10.01.01 Sb10-1_001.tif )
Commentary:
f. 142:
i śrī ga te hā rā da ma dhe ko maṃ śa mo yaḥ || 48 || rāma rāma
(cf. BhP.S.BhD. 10(P).49.39 Sb10-4_989.tif ) mū:
f. 142:
... pratyabhāṣata dharmajño bhagavān bādarāyaniḥ ||39||
(BhP. 01.19.40 Sb01_808.tif ) i śrī ga te hā rā da ma dhe ko maṃ śa mo yaḥ || 48 || pūrvārdhaḥ samāptaḥ ||
Record revised:???date mo.??? 2010