Manuscript Identifiers

Collection:UPenn Ms. Coll. 390
Item:2378
Repository:Rare Book & Manuscript Library
Institution:University of Pennsylvania
Location:Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Catalog:Poleman
Item:1336

Contents

Work 1

Locus:ff. 1r–58v (complete)
Author:Kṛṣṇa Dvaipāyana Vyāsa
Title:Bhāgavatapurāṇa
Part:skandha 8
Incipit: f. 1r:
rājñovāca ..
svāyaṁbhuvasyeha guro vaṁśo <'> yaṁ vistarā<c> chrutaḥ .
yatra viśvasṛjāṁ sargo manūn anyān vadasva naḥ ..1..
yatra yatra harer janma karmāṇi ca mahīyasaḥ .
grṇaṁti kavayo !v!<b> rahman tāni no vada śṛṇvatāṁ ..2..
Note:
BhP. 8.1.1–8.1.2
Explicit: f. 82r:

pralayapayasi dhātuḥ suptaśakter mukhebhyaḥ śrutigaṇam apanītaṁ pratyupādāya hatvā .
ditijam a
kathayad yo !v!<b> rahma satyavratānāṁ tam aham akhilahetuṁ jihmamīnaṁ nato <'> smi ..51..
Note:
BhP. 8.24.61
Final rubric: f. 82r:
iti śrībhāgavate mahāpurāṇe pāramahaṁsyāṁ saṁhi
.. cha ..
tāyāṁ aṣṭamaskaṁdhe bhagavato matsyāvatāracaritānuvarṇanaṁ caturviṁśatimo <'> dhyāyaḥ ..24..
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–58v (complete)
Author:Śrīdharasvāmin
Part:ad skandha 8
Incipit: f. 1r:
iti śrībhāgavate mahāpurāṇe pāramahaṁsyāṁ saṁhitāyāṁ aṣṭamaskaṁdhe bhagavato matsyāvatāracaritānuvarṇanaṁ caturviṁśatimo <'> dhyāyaḥ ..24..

õ namaḥ śrīparamahaṁsāsvāditacaraṇakamalacinmakaraṁdāya !.!<> bhaktajanamānasanivāsāya śrīrāmāya ..1..
Note:
Kṛṣṇaśaṅkara Śāstrin 1965 vol. 8, p. 2, 8.1 intro.


athāṣṭame caturviṁśatya
dhyāy!e!<aiḥ> manuvarṇanaṁ .
tatsutair ṛṣideveṁdrair mūrttibhiś ca hareḥ saha ..2.
Note:
Kṛṣṇaśaṅkara Śāstrin 1965 vol. 8, p. 2, 8.1 intro, verse 1
Explicit: f. 82r:

() satyavravratasya ṛṣīṇāṁ ca <c> chatriṇo ga<c> chaṁtītiva
l liṁgasamavāyād bahuvacanaṁ .. jihmamīnaṁ māyā[hatyaṁ]() .. [
Kṛṣṇaśaṅkara Śāstrin 1965 vol. 8, p. 560, ad 8.24.61

Final rubric: f. 58r:
.. iti śrībhāgavat() bhāvārthadīpikāyāṁ śrīdharasvāmiviravitāyāṁ aṣṭamaskaṁdhe catu
.. r viṁśaḥ ..24..
Colophon:none
Language:Sanskrit in Devanāgarī script

Physical description

Form:Folia
Material:Country-made paper.
Extent:58
Dimension:15.1 x 37.4 cm
Collation: Single folios.
Condition:Good. There are water stains in the margins throughout, and a large black smudge on f. 4v. The ink is worn off in some places (e.g. f. 3v), but the text is still legible.
Binding: Unbound.
Layout:Written in 10–13 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 forward, in slightly wavy lines.
Additions:

The rubric on f. 1r was added in a different hand. Mistakes are covered over with yellow, written over, or bloched out with black. There are marignal corrections in different hands throughout.

There are marignal corrections and some lengthy additions in different hands.

On f. 3v a different hand has added the text corresponding with BhP. 8.1.32–8.1.32, and the commentary corresponding with Kṛṣṇaśaṅkara Śāstrin 1965 vol. 8, p. 25, ad 8.1.32, neither of which is present in the manuscript where the chapter ends without a colophon. Additionally, the same hand adds śrīgoviṁdāya nama gopā[?]ya.

On f15v-f16r, a different hand (possibly the same as the hand that made additions on f. 3v) has added six lines of commentary to replace text covered in yellow. The added lines correspond with Kṛṣṇaśaṅkara Śāstrin 1965 vol. 8, pp. 140, 144, 148 ad 8.6.17–8.6.33 with some variation in content and in numbering. These include saṁraṁbheṇa saṁbhrameṇa through parighā ivabāhavo yeṣāṁte ..33.., corresponding with Kṛṣṇaśaṅkara Śāstrin 1965 vol. 8, pp. 140, 144, 148 ad 8.6.24–8.6.33, written on f. 16r, and the fill and benediction cha .. cha .. cha .. cha .. rāma rāma kṇśṅa khṇśṅa goviṁdāya ... In the bottom of the right margin on f. 16r a correcting hand has written saṁbhrameṇa 2.

Decoration

Color:Some double daṇḍas, the space between some double daṇḍas, every other syllable of invocation, some final rubrics, and some introductions of speakers are written in red. Orange powder is rubbed over some final rubrics, some introductions of speakers, and some syllables. Yellow is used to cover mistakes. Every other syllable of the opening invocation in the text and commentary on f. 1v, and the beginning of the final rubric on f. 58r:
is written in red.
Border:Two sets of vertical double black lines 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 – 8. 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: aṣṭama
f.1v
Line 4: śrīgaṇeśāya namaḥ .. .. rājñovāca .. svāyaṁbhuvasyeha guro vaṁśo <'> yaṁ vistarā<c> chrutaḥ . yatra viśvasṛjāṁ sargo manūn anyān vadasva naḥ ..1.. yatra yatra harer janma karmāṇi ca mahīyasaḥ . grṇaṁti kavayo !v!<b> rahman tāni no vada śṛṇvatāṁ ..2.. [
f.58r
Line 5: [ pralayapayasi dhātuḥ suptaśakter mukhebhyaḥ śrutigaṇam apanītaṁ pratyupādāya hatvā . ditijam a
Line 6: kathayad yo !v!<b> rahma satyavratānāṁ tam aham akhilahetuṁ jihmamīnaṁ nato <'> smi ..51..
iti śrībhāgavate mahāpurāṇe pāramahaṁsyāṁ saṁhi
Line 7: .. cha ..
tāyāṁ aṣṭamaskaṁdhe bhagavato matsyāvatāracaritānuvarṇanaṁ caturviṁśatimo <'> dhyāyaḥ ..24..
Commentary:
f.1v
Line 1: .. .. śrīgaṇe!śa!<śā>ya namaḥ ..

õ namaḥ śrīparamahaṁsāsvāditacaraṇakamalacinmakaraṁdāya !.!<> bhaktajanamānasanivāsāya śrīrāmāya ..1..


Line 2:
athāṣṭame caturviṁśatya
Line 2: dhyāy!e!<aiḥ> manuvarṇanaṁ . tatsutair ṛṣideveṁdrair mūrttibhiś ca hareḥ saha ..2. [
f.58r
Line 1: [

() satyavravratasya ṛṣīṇāṁ ca <c> chatriṇo ga<c> chaṁtītiva
Line 8: l liṁgasamavāyād bahuvacanaṁ .. jihmamīnaṁ māyā[hatyaṁ]() .. [
Kṛṣṇaśaṅkara Śāstrin 1965 vol. 8, p. 560, ad 8.24.61

.. iti śrībhāgavat() bhāvārthadīpikāyāṁ śrīdharasvāmiviravitāyāṁ aṣṭamaskaṁdhe catu
Line 8: .. r viṁśaḥ ..24.. śubham astu ..
Record revised:24 April 2012