Manuscript Identifiers

Collection:Indic Manuscripts
Item:45
Repository:John Hay Library
Institution:Brown University
Location:Providence, Rhode Island, United States of America
Catalog:Poleman
Item:1301

Contents

Work 1

Locus:f. ?-? (incomplete)
Author:kṛṣṇa dvaipāyana vyāsa
Title:bhāgavatapurāṅa
Part:??
Incipit: f. 1r, lines 1-3:
śrīsītānayanotpala | śrī satisahajanmatridaśaśevitayāśā | vā saprakāśajayabhāṣā
surapatiharaṇarāmacaṃdranṛpālā || va || mahaniyyaguṇagariṣṭulagunaṃmmuniśre
ṣṭulakunikhilapurāṇavyākhyānavaikharīsametuṃḍainasūtuṃḍiṭlaniye |
Note: first verse of the pajhcamaskaṃdhamu of the Potana Bhagavatamu
Explicit: f. 57v, lines 1-2:
bhū
dvīpavarṣasaridadrinabhassamudrapātāvadijña?s akatā?s āgrahaṇalokasaṃsthitaṃunu |
Note: variation of the last verse of the paṃcamaskaṃdha of the Potana Bhagavatamu
Final rubric: f. 57v, line 2:
nanukadhalaṃgalapaṃcamaskaṃdhaṃsaṃpurṇaṃ ||
Colophon: f. 57v, lines 3-4:
śrītārāmārpaṇamastu || śrīkṛṣṇarpaṇamastu || śrīlakṣmīnṛsiṃhyārpaṇamastu || śrīha
yagrivāhanamaḥ || śrīśrīśrīśrīśrīśrīśrīśrīśrīśrīśrīśrīśrīśrīśrīśrīśrīśrīśrīśrīśrījjeyanamaḥ ||
Language:Telugu in Telugu script

Work 2

Locus:f. ?-? (complete)
Author:kṛṣṇa dvaipāyana vyāsa
Title:bhāgavatapurāṅa
Part:??
Incipit: f. 63r:
śrīnīācalanādhunaṃccitadayāṃ??s dhunjagannayakun | nānāvaibhavasaṃyutunmunijanānaṃddalayunsarvadevanīkasthiramy|auratnarucibhavyāṃbhrudvayiṃśebhartan|
Note: first verse of the ṣaṣṭhaskaṃdhamu of the Potana Bhagavatamu
Explicit: f. 126v, line 3:
jalavavimalagātrisatyabhāmākaḷatra ||
Note: variation of the last verse of the ṣaṣṭamaskaṃdha of the Potana Bhagavatamu
Final rubric: f. 126v, lines 4-6:
idihanumatkaṭākṣalabdavaraprasāda | sahajasārasvatacaṃdrnāmāṃkkarāmavidvanmaṇikumāra | aṣṭaghaṃṭṭavadhānapara
meśvara | haribhaṭṭāraka | praṇītaṃbaina | śrīmahābhāgavatamahāpurāṇaṃbunaṃdu | narakanirūpaṇaṃbunu | najāmīḷopākhyānaṃbunu | viṣṇu
yamadūtalasaṃvvādaṃbbunu | prācetanajanmaṃbunu | anubhavasvargalakṣaṇaṃbunu | nārāyaṇakavacaprabhāvaṃbunu | viśvarūpuvadhayunu | f. 127r, lines 1-2:
vṛtrāsurujanmaṃbunu | devāsurayudhaṃbunu | citraketopakhyānambunu | puṃsavanavrataprakāraṃbunu | nanaṃviśeṣaṃbbulaṃbaripūrnaṃbulayyeṣaṣṭama
skaṃdhamusaṃpūrnnamu ||
Colophon: f. 127r, lines 2-3:
śrīnīlācanasvāminenamaḥ || śrīsītārāmārpaṇamastu || śrīkṛṣṇārpaṇamastu || śrīlakṣmīnṛsiṃhyārpaṇamastu || śrīhayagrī
vāyanamaḥ || karakṛtamaparādhaḥkṣaṃttumarhaṃttisaṃttaḥ | śrīśrīśrīśrīśrīśrīśrīśrīśrīśrīśrīśrīśrīśrīśrīśrīśrīśrī |
Language:Telugu in Telugu script

Work 3

Locus:f. ?-? (complete)
Author:kṛṣṇa dvaipāyana vyāsa
Title:bhāgavatapurāṅa
Part:??
Incipit: f. 128r, lines 1-3:
śrīmadvikhyātilatākrāmitarodhoṃttarāḷakamanīyyamahā | jīmūtatulitadehaśyāmalarucijālarāmacaṃdranṛpāla || va || mahaniyyaguṇagariṣṭulagunaṃmmuniśreṣṭulakunikhalapurāṇavyākhyānavaikharīsametuṃḍainasūtuṃḍiṭlaniyenaṭluparikṣinnaredṛṃḍuśukayogīṃdṛṃganuṃggoni || si || sarvabhutamulakusamuḍuneccelipriyu
ḍainavaikuṃṭhuḍnaṃtuḍādyu |
Note: first verse of the saptamaskaṃdha of the Potana Bhagavatamu
Explicit: f. 194r, line 4:
yīśvaruṃṭṭutripuraṃbuludavāṃcculuyu | dharmādharmavivaraṃbula |
Note: variation of the last verse of the saptamaskaṃdha of the Potana Bhagavatamu
Final rubric: f. 194r, lines 4-5:
niyaṃḍidathalaṃgalasaptamaskaṃ
dhamusaṃpūrṇaṃ ||
Colophon: f. 194r, line 5:
śrītārāmārpaṇamastu || śrīkṛṣṇarpaṇamastu || asmamadnarubhyotnamaḥ || śrīhayagrīvāyanamaḥ || śrīśrīśrīśrīśrī
Language:Telugu in Telugu script

Work 4

Locus:f. ?-? (complete)
Author:kṛṣṇa dvaipāyana vyāsa
Title:bhāgavatapurāṅa
Part:??
Incipit: f. 195r.l2:
śrīmannāmapayoda | śyāmadhaṇābhṛllalāmajagadabhirāmā | rāmājanakāmamahoddāmaguṇa
sthomadhāmadaśaradharāmā || va ||
Note: first verse of the aṣṭamaskaṃdha of the Potana Bhagavatamu
Explicit: f. 268r:
bhavaḷabahuḷadarttidharmasatyāsuvarti ||
Note: variation of the last verse of the aṣṭamaskaṃdha of the Potana Bhagavatamu
Final rubric: f. 268r, lines 1-5:
idiśrīparameśvara
karuṅadavitakavitāvicitrakesanamaṃtriputrasahajapāṃḍityapotanāmātyapraṇītaṃbainaśrīmahābhāgavatambanumahāpurāṇambunaṃdusvāyaṃbhuvasva
rociṣavuttamatāmasamanuvulacaritraṃbulunu | karimakariyuddhaṃbunu | gajeṃdramokṣaṇaṃbunu | raivatakacākṣaṣamaṣavulavartanaṃbulunu | samudra
madhanaṃbunu | vimodhbavaṃbunu | garaḷabhakṣaṇaṃbunu | kāmadhenukalpavṛkṣaciṃtamaṇilakṣmīamṛtādisaṃbhavaṃbunu | amarāsurayuddhaṃbunu |
tākṣasavadhaṃbunu | hariharasallāpaṃbunu | harikapaṭaṭkāminīrupavipramaṃbunu | vaivasvatasūryasāvarṇī | dakṣasāvarṇī | brahmasāvarṇī | dharmasāvarṇī | bhadra f. 269v, lines 1-2:
sāvarṇī | vedasāvarṇī | yiṃdrasāvarṇī | manuvulavṛttaṃvaṃbulunu | balidaṃḍagamanaṃbunu | devaphalāyanaṃbunu | vāmanavatāraṃbunu | suprebalisaṃvādaṃbunu | trivikrama
sphuraṇaṃbunu | rākṣasulasutalanamanaṃbunu | satyapratopākhyānambunu | matyāvatāraṃbunu | nanukadhalaṃgalaaṣṭamaskaṃdhaṃsaṃpūrṇaṃ ||
Colophon:śrītārāmārpaṇamastu || śrīkṛṣṇarpaṇamastu || śrīgurudevārpaṇamastu || śrīlakṣmīnṛsiṃhyārpaṇamastu || śrīdattatreyārpaṇamastu || śrīśrīśrī
śrīśrīśrīśrīśrīśrīśrīśrīśrīśrīśrīśrīśrīśrīśrīśrīśrīśrīśrīśrīśrīśrīśrīśrīśrīśrīśrīśrījeyunu ||
Language:Telugu in Telugu script

Physical description

Form:folia
Material:palm leaf
Extent:270
Dimension:4 x 38 cm
Foliation:The last four blank folios [iv-ix] appear to be out of order. Their various shapes, sizes and peg hole placements are not in relationship to the surrounding folios. Two folios numbered as 176 no folio 177
formula: [i-ii], 1-59, 63-120, [iii], 121-176[a], 176[b], 178-268, [iv-ix]
Condition:Fair condition; browned leaves; minimal fraying at the edges; a few cracked and split leaves that don't interfere with legibility; occassional worm holes; Most of the folios have considerable ink fading but the text is still legible by means of the etching; Folio 40 split horizontally on left margin center and sewn together.
Binding: Wooden covers with tying cord and a metal peg through lateral holes
Condition: good.
Layout:

Text only written in center between two binding holes folio 1r & v

Writing ends on 4th line the last line made up of a row of “śrī” 's folio 57v

Blank folios except for folio number on recto side folio 58 & 59

Writing ends on 3rd line half of 3rd line made up of “śrī” 's folio 127r

Blank on verso of folio folio 127v

Writing ends on 1st line and made up of all “śrī” 's folio 194v

Text only written in center between to binding holes folio 195r & v

Writing ends on 3rd line 4th line made up of all “śrī” 's folio 268v

Hands

Additions:

Note in left margin: “śubhamastu” “avighnamastu” “paṃcamaskaṃ” “dhamu ||” flower folio 1r

Note in left margin: illegible scribble folio 39v

Note in left margin: “śubhamastu” “avighnamastu” “ṣaṣṭamaskaṃdhaṃ” folio 63r

Note in left margin: 3 “harināma” folio 73r

Note in left margin: “nāraduniki” “śāpamu” folio 82r

Note in left margin: “nāra” “yanā” “kavacaṃ” folio 94r

Note in left margin: “vṛtrāsura” “jananīṃ” folio 96r

Note in left margin: “vṛtrā” 06 “suravadha” folio 106r

Note in left margin: “avighnamastu” “śubhamastu” “saptamaskaṃdham” folio 128r

Note in left margin: “prakṛti” folio 128v

Note in left margin: “śubhamastu | avighnamastu” “śrīśāradaṃbbāyainamaḥ” “aṣṭamaskaṃdhamū” folio 195r

Note in left margin: ? “to” “baṃttī” folio 217r

Decoration

Illustration:??flowers in some left margins??

History

Acquisition: (Stuart C. Sherman (1977: 79)) describes the acquisition of the Indic manuscripts in the Brown University Library as follows:

Indic Manuscripts

A collection of fifty-three codices (not after 1800) in Burmese, Cambodian, Telugu Skandhas, Bengali, and Sinhalese script on palm leaves with lacquered wood covers tied with cords. Subjects include Buddhist canon, Pālī grammar and lexicons, Epics, Dance, Drama, and a treatise on midwifery and diseases of women. Recorded in ( A Census of Indic Manuscripts in the United States and Canada, by Horace I. Poleman, New Haven: American Oriental Society, 1938. ) Register available.

Gift of Baptist missionaries to Burma, among whom was Adoniram Judson Brown Class of 1807, who first translated the Bible into Burmese.

Subject headings

SubjectLC:Manuscripts, Telugu
SubjectSL:Purāṇa. Ancient Cosmogony, Genealogy, Narrative

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Record revised:25 December 2009