Manuscript Identifiers

Collection:UPenn Ms. Coll. 390
Item:2574
Repository:Rare Book & Manuscript Library
Institution:University of Pennsylvania
Location:Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Catalog:Poleman
Item:1310

Contents

Work 1 (incomplete)

Locus:ff. 1v–7v
Author:Kṛṣṇa Dvaipāyana Vyāsa
Title:Rāsakrīḍā
Part:Adhyāya 29–33
Part:10.29–33
Colophon: f. 7v
liṣyataṁ vihārīdāsapaṭhanārthisvayaṁ .
Note:Although the title Rāsapañcādhyāyī does not appear in the manuscript, it is the proper term for the group of five chapters, adhyāyas 29-33 of the tenth skandha of the Bhāgavatapurāṇa, that deals with the love-play of Kṛṣṇa and the gopīs called the Rāsalīlā or Rāsakrīḍā. The final rubrics of adhyāyas twenty-nine, thirty, thirty-two, and thirty-three all mention the title Rāsakrīḍā. One folio, f. 5 containing BhP. 10.31.1b–10.32.7a, is missing.
Language:Sanskrit in Devanāgarī script

   Work 1.1 (complete)

   Locus:f. 1vf. 3r
   Incipit: f. 1v
śrīśuka uvāca ..
bhagavān api tā rātrīḥ śāradotphullamallikāḥ ..
vīkṣya raṁtuṁ manaś cakre yogamāyām upāśritaḥ ..1.. ( BhP. 10.29.1 )
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   Final rubric: f. 3r
iti śrībhāgavate mahāpurāṇe pāramahaṁsyāṁ saṁhitāyāṁ vaiyāsikyāṁ daśamaskaṁdhe rāsakrīḍāyāṁ śrīkṛṣṇāṁtardhānam ekonatriṁśo 'dhyāyaḥ ..!2!<2>9..

   Work 1.2 (complete)

   Locus:f. 3rf. 4v
   Final rubric: f. 4v
iti śrībhāgavate mahāpurāṇe vaiyāsikyāṁ daśamaskaṁdhe rāsakrīḍāyāṁ bhagavadanv<e>ṣaṇaṁ nāma triṁśo dhyāyaḥ ..30..

   Work 1.3 (incomplete)

   Locus:f. 4v–f. 5?
   Incipit: f. 4v
gopya ūcu<ḥ> ..
jayati te <'>dhikaṁ janma<nā vrajaḥ> (Triṣṭubh)

   Work 1.4 (incomplete)

   Locus:f. 5?–f. 6r
   Incipit: f. 6r
aparānimiṣaddṛgbhyāṁ juṣā ṇā tanmukhāmbujam .
āpītam api nātṛpyat santas tac caraṇaṁ yathā ..7.. (Anuṣṭubh)
   Final rubric: f. 6v
iti śrībhāgavate mahāpurāṇe daśamaskaṁdhe rāsakrīḍāyāṁ (śrīkṛṣṇadarśano nāma) dvātriṁśo 'dhyāyaḥ ..32..

   Work 1.5 (complete)

   Locus:f. 6rf. 7v
   Explicit: f. 7v
vikrīḍitaṁ vrajavadhūbhir idaṁ ca viṣṇoḥ
śraddhānvito <'>nuśṛṇuyād atha varṇayed yaḥ ..
bhaktiṁ parāṁ bhagavati pratilabhya kāmaṁ
hṛdrogam āśv apahinoty acireṇa dhīraḥ..39.. ( BhP. 10.33.39 ) (Vasantatilakā)
   Final rubric: f. 7v
iti śrībhāgavate mahāpurāṇe daśamaskaṁdhe rāsakṛīḍāyāṁ trayastriṁśo 'dhyāyaḥ ..33..

Physical description

Form:Folia
Material:Country paper
Extent:6 folia
Dimension:15.7 x 32.4 cm (h x w)
Foliation: Foliated in the upper left and lower right margins between red double foreign daṇḍa s on the verso of each folio. Folio 5 is missing.
   Formula:1–4, 6–7
   Signatures:daśama appears above the folio number in the upper left margin (daśama on f. 3v), and paṁca appears below the folio number in the lower right margin, on the verso of each folio.
Collation: Single folia.
Condition:Good, with the exception of tears that damage a few akṣaras in the first line on f. 1v.
Binding: Unbound
Seal: A circular stamp in the upper left of f. 1r reads Library University Pennsylvania. A white label on which is hand-written ‘2574’ appears below it.
Layout:Written in fifteen lines per page.

Hands

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

There are a few marginal corrections.

Decoration

Color:The invocations, final rubrics, colophon, introductions of speakers, and double daṇḍas are written in red. Mistakes are covered over with yellow.
Border:Double vertical red lines border the text on the left and right margins.

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

Record history

Revised: 15 April 2012

Facsimile  (work )

Whole image     Individual pages
f. 1r     f. 1r  
f. 1v, f. 2r     f. 1v  f. 2r  
f. 2v, f. 3r     f. 2v  f. 3r  
f. 3v, f. 4r     f. 3v  f. 4r  
f. 4v, f. 6r     f. 4v  f. 6r  
f. 6v, f. 7r     f. 6v  f. 7r  
f. 7v     f. 7v  


Transcription (text structure)


śrīkṛṣṇāya namaḥ .
śrīrādhākṛṣṇā<bhyāṁ> namaḥ ..
śrīśukasyāmacaranadāsābhyāṁ namaḥ ..
śrīgur<u>devebhyo namaḥ ..


Adhyāya 29:
śrīśuka uvāca ..
bhagavān api tā rātrīḥ śāradotphullamallikāḥ ..
vīkṣya raṁtuṁ manaś cakre yogamāyām upāśritaḥ ..1.. ( BhP. 10.29.1 )
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iti śrībhāgavate mahāpurāṇe pāramahaṁsyāṁ saṁhitāyāṁ vaiyāsikyāṁ daśamaskaṁdhe rāsakrīḍāyāṁ śrīkṛṣṇāṁtardhānam ekonatriṁśo 'dhyāyaḥ ..!2!<2>9..

Adhyāya 30:
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iti śrībhāgavate mahāpurāṇe vaiyāsikyāṁ daśamaskaṁdhe rāsakrīḍāyāṁ bhagavadanv<e>ṣaṇaṁ nāma triṁśo dhyāyaḥ ..30..

Adhyāya 31:
gopya ūcu<ḥ> ..
jayati te <'>dhikaṁ janma<nā vrajaḥ> (Triṣṭubh)
< Missing folio 5 containing BhP. 10.31.1b–10.32.7a. >
aparānimiṣaddṛgbhyāṁ juṣā ṇā tanmukhāmbujam .
āpītam api nātṛpyat santas tac caraṇaṁ yathā ..7.. (Anuṣṭubh)
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iti śrībhāgavate mahāpurāṇe daśamaskaṁdhe rāsakrīḍāyāṁ (śrīkṛṣṇadarśano nāma) dvātriṁśo 'dhyāyaḥ ..32..

Adhyāya 33:
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vikrīḍitaṁ vrajavadhūbhir idaṁ ca viṣṇoḥ
śraddhānvito <'>nuśṛṇuyād atha varṇayed yaḥ ..
bhaktiṁ parāṁ bhagavati pratilabhya kāmaṁ
hṛdrogam āśv apahinoty acireṇa dhīraḥ..39.. ( BhP. 10.33.39 ) (Vasantatilakā)
iti śrībhāgavate mahāpurāṇe daśamaskaṁdhe rāsakṛīḍāyāṁ trayastriṁśo 'dhyāyaḥ ..33..

liṣyataṁ vihārīdāsapaṭhanārthisvayaṁ .
śubham astu