Manuscript Identifiers

Collection:UPenn Ms. Coll. 390
Item:2397
Repository:Rare Book & Manuscript Library
Institution:University of Pennsylvania
Location:Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Catalog:Poleman
Item:1313

Contents

Work 1

Locus:f. 1v-11r (incomplete)
Title:bhāgavatapurāṇa
Part:skandha 8, adhyAya 2-4, 5.1ab
Incipit: f. 1v:
śrīśukauvāca || āsīd girivaro rājaṃs trikūṭa iti viśrutaḥ ||
kṣīrodenāvṛtaḥ śrīmān yojanāyutam u{c}ch{r}itaḥ ||1||
Explicit: f. 11r:
śrīśuka uvāca || ity ādiśya hṛṣīkeśaḥ pradhmāya jalajottamaṃ ||
harṣayan vibudhānīkam āruroha khagādhipaṃ ||26||
Final rubric: f. 11r:
iti śrībhāgavate māhāpurāṇe aṣṭamaskaṃdhe caturtho dhyāyaḥ ||
Language:Sanskrit in Devanagari script

Physical description

Form:folia
Material:country paper
Extent:11
Dimension:11 x 23.7 cm
Collation:single folia
Layout:Seven lines per leaf.

Hands

Additions:

Mistakes scribbled over.

Decoration

Color:Orange powder rubbed in over invocation, colophons, introductions of speakers, and numbers.

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

f. 1v:
śrīgaṇeśāya namaḥ || śrīśukauvāca || āsīd girivaro rājaṃs trikūṭa iti viśrutaḥ ||
kṣīrodenāvṛtaḥ śrīmān yojanāyutam u{c}ch{r}itaḥ ||1||...
f. 11r:
... śrīśuka uvāca || ity ādiśya hṛṣīkeśaḥ pradhmāya jalajottamaṃ ||
harṣayan vibudhānīkam āruroha khagādhipaṃ ||26|| iti śrībhāgavate māhāpurāṇe aṣṭamaskaṃdhe caturtho dhyāyaḥ ||
f. 11r:
śrīśuka uvāca || rājann uditam etat te hareḥ karmāghanāśanaṃ ||
(08.05.1ab)
Note: Deals with the story-cycle of Gajendra
Record revised:???date mo.??? 2010