Manuscript Identifiers

Collection:UPenn Ms. Coll. 390
Item:2375
Repository:Rare Book & Manuscript Library
Institution:University of Pennsylvania
Location:Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Catalog:Poleman
Item:1333

Contents

Work 1

Locus:ff. 1r–74v (complete)
Author:Kṛṣṇa Dvaipāyana Vyāsa
Title:Bhāgavatapurāṇa
Part:skandha 2
Incipit: f. 1v:
śrīśuka uvāca .. ..
varīyān eṣa te praśnaḥ kṛto lokahitaṁ yata()
ātmavitsaṁmataḥ puṁsāṁ
śrotavyādiṣu ya!ṣ!<ḥ> paraḥ ..1..
Note:
BhP. 2.1.1
Explicit: f. 43r:
śūta uvāca .. ..
rājñā parikṣitā pṛṣṭo yad avocan mahāmuniḥ .
tad vo <'> bhidhāsye śṛ
ṇuta rājñaḥ p!ṛ!<ra>śnānusārataḥ ..<5>1..
Note:
BhP. 2.10.51
Final rubric: f. 43r:
iti śrībhāgavate mahāpurāṇe dvitī<ya>skaṁdhe
aṣṭādaśasāhasr()āṁ saṁhitāyāṁ daśamo <'> dhyāyaḥ ..
Colophon:none
Filiation:The seven manuscripts in the University of Pennsylvania's Collection of Indic Manuscripts, Items 2373–2379 (UPenn 2373, UPenn 2374, UPenn 2375, UPenn 2376, UPenn 2377, UPenn 2378, UPenn 2379) constitute a set of manuscripts of several skandhas of the Bhāgavatapurāṇa with Śrīdharasvāmin's Bhāgavatabhāvārthadīpikā written in the same style on the same material, all by the same hand except that a second hand has written UPenn 2376 and parts of UPenn 2374 and UPenn 2377, and a third hand has written a small part of UPenn 2373.
Language:Sanskrit in Devanāgarī script

Work 2

Locus:ff. 1r–74v (complete)
Author:Śrīdharasvāmin
Part:ad skandha 2
Incipit: f. 1v:

dvitīye tu daśādhyāyai<ḥ> śrībhāgavatam āditaḥ .
udeśalakṣaṇoktibhyāṁ saṁkṣepeṇopavarṇyate ..1..
Note:
Kṛṣṇaśaṅkara Śāstrin 1965 vol. 2, p. 1, 2.1 intro.
Explicit: f. 43r:

rājñā pṛṣṭaḥ iti . ayamarthaḥ . yat yūyaṁ pṛ<c> chatha idam eva rājāpi śukaṁ pṛṣṭavān . śuko <'> pi viduramaitreyasaṁvādaṁ puraskṛtya ye pūrvvaṁ rājñā kṛtāḥ praśnāḥ
tadanusāreṇa sarvvaṁ purāṇārtham avoca[ya]t ()t tadevāhaṁ vo <'> bhidhāsyāmi .. tathaiva śṛṇuteti ..51..
Note:
Kṛṣṇaśaṅkara Śāstrin 1965 vol. 2, p. 507, ad 2.10.51

Final rubric: f. 43r:
.. iti dvitīye daśamo <'> dhyāyaḥ ..
Explicit: f. 43r:

śrīma
dbhāgvataṁ yena sva!v!<b> rahmamukhatomitaṁ ..
brahmanāradayoḥ proktaṁ taṁ vaṁde gurum īśvaraṁ ..1..
yat sūtrayaṁtritaṁ viśvaṁ narīnartti jagattrayaṁ .
saṁtas tam eva pṛ<c> chaṁtu yad atra skha
litaṁ mama ..2..
dvitīyaskaṁdhasaṁ!v!<b> aṁdhipadabhāvārthadīpikā .
uddīpyatām iyaṁ sadbhir yathā syāt ta<t> tvadīpikā ..3..
īkṣaṁtām i<c> chayā saṁtaḥ kṣamaṁtāṁ ma
ma sāhasam .
mayā hi svīyabodhāya kṛtam etan na sarvvataḥ ..
Note:
Kṛṣṇaśaṅkara Śāstrin 1965 vol. 2, p. 507, following 2.10.51
Colophon: f. 43r:
.. samāpto <'> yaṁ gra<ṁ>thaḥ ..
Language:Sanskrit in Devanāgarī script

Physical description

Form:Folia
Material:Country-made paper.
Extent:43
Dimension:15.1 x 37.4 cm
Collation: Single folios.
Condition:Fair to good; the paper is very brown and stained, and the edges are frayed. The ink is worn in some places, but the text is still legible.
Binding: A single dark wooden board serves as a base for the text. Dimensions: height 17cm, width 37cm.
Layout:Written in 9–13 lines per page in an hourglass arrangement with commentary above and below the base text.

Hands

Hand 1:Written in clear, bold, regular characters tilted backward in wavy lines.
Additions:

The rubric on f. 1r, indicating the number of the skandha, is written in a different hand.

In the bottom margin on f. 43r are added two verses in praise of kṛṣṇa.

There are marignal corrections and additions in different hands. Mistakes are covered over with yellow, written over, crossed out, covered with black, or indicated by vertical strokes above the syllable or part of the syllable in question.

Decoration

Color:Some folios are dyed yellow; some have only the faint remains of yellow dye. Most double daṇḍas, the space between some double daṇḍas, some invocations, some introductions of speakers, some final rubrics, every other letter of some final rubrics are written in red.
Border:Two sets of vertical double black lines filled with a red band rule 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:Puranas – Bhāgavatapurāṇa – 2. skandha.
SubjectLC:Manuscripts, Sanskrit – 19th century.
SubjectLC:Manuscripts – India – 19th century.
SubjectSL:Purāṇa. Ancient Cosmogony, Genealogy, Narrative

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Transcription (Manuscript Layout)

mū:
f.1r
Line 1: dvitīyaḥ
f.1v
Line 5: õ namo bhagavate śrīvāsudevāya .. .. .. śrīśuka uvāca .. .. varīyān eṣa te praśnaḥ kṛto lokahitaṁ yata() ātmavitsaṁmataḥ puṁsāṁ
Line 6: śrotavyādiṣu ya!ṣ!<ḥ> paraḥ ..1.. [
f.43r
Line 3: śūta uvāca .. .. rājñā parikṣitā pṛṣṭo yad avocan mahāmuniḥ . tad vo <'> bhidhāsye śṛ
Line 4: ṇuta rājñaḥ p!ṛ!<ra>śnānusārataḥ ..<5>1..
iti śrībhāgavate mahāpurāṇe dvitī<ya>skaṁdhe
Line 5: aṣṭādaśasāhasr()āṁ saṁhitāyāṁ daśamo <'> dhyāyaḥ ..
śrīrāmacaṁdrasahāi ..
Commentary:
f.1v
Line 1: .. .. śrīrāmacaṁdrasahā[ḥ .](). .. dvitīye tu daśādhyāyai<ḥ> śrībhāgavatam āditaḥ . udeśalakṣaṇoktibhyāṁ saṁkṣepeṇopavarṇyate ..1.. [
f.43r
Line 1:

rājñā pṛṣṭaḥ iti . ayamarthaḥ . yat yūyaṁ pṛ<c> chatha idam eva rājāpi śukaṁ pṛṣṭavān . śuko <'> pi viduramaitreyasaṁvādaṁ puraskṛtya ye pūrvvaṁ rājñā kṛtāḥ praśnāḥ
Line 2: tadanusāreṇa sarvvaṁ purāṇārtham avoca[ya]t ()t tadevāhaṁ vo <'> bhidhāsyāmi .. tathaiva śṛṇuteti ..51..

.. iti dvitīye daśamo <'> dhyāyaḥ .. śrīma
Line 6: dbhāgvataṁ yena sva!v!<b> rahmamukhatomitaṁ .. brahmanāradayoḥ proktaṁ taṁ vaṁde gurum īśvaraṁ ..1.. yat sūtrayaṁtritaṁ viśvaṁ narīnartti jagattrayaṁ . saṁtas tam eva pṛ<c> chaṁtu yad atra skha
Line 7: litaṁ mama ..2.. dvitīyaskaṁdhasaṁ!v!<b> aṁdhipadabhāvārthadīpikā . uddīpyatām iyaṁ sadbhir yathā syāt ta<t> tvadīpikā ..3.. īkṣaṁtām i<c> chayā saṁtaḥ kṣamaṁtāṁ ma
Line 8: ma sāhasam . mayā hi svīyabodhāya kṛtam etan na sarvvataḥ ..
.. samāpto <'> yaṁ gra<ṁ>thaḥ ..
add :
f.43r
Line 9: saṁstautu vā niṁdatu māṁ jano yaṁ prārabdham aśnannabhimānaśūnyaḥ . sthito <'> smi viśveśvararājadhānyāṁ kṛṣṇāgrahagrasta ivānayāśrayaḥ ..1.. śrīkṛṣṇakṛṣṇeti muhur muhur japan śrīkṛṣṇapādāṁbujajāsarijjaḷe . śrīkṛṣṇapādāṁbujam eva ciṁtayan kalevaraṁ tyaktum ahaṁ samutsahe ..2..
Record revised:24 April 2012