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 (complete)

Locus:ff. 1v–11r
Author:Kṛṣṇa Dvaipāyana Vyāsa
Title:Gajendropākhyāna
Part:Adhyāya 2–4
Part:8.2–4, 8.5.1ab
Colophon:none
Note:The manuscript contains the Gajendropākhyāna, which occupies adhyāyas 2–4 of the Bhāgavatapurāṇa. The first line of the first verse of Adhyāya 5, not concerned with the story, is incidentally included in the copy, doubless because it appeared on the same page in the model.
Language:Sanskrit in Devanāgarī script

   Work 1.1 (complete)

   Locus:ff. 1v–5r
   Part:Adhyāya 2
   Incipit: f. 1v
śrīśukauvāca ..
āsīd girivaro rājaṁs trikūṭa iti viśrutaḥ ..
kṣīrodenāvṛtaḥ śrīmān yojanāyutam u<c>chritaḥ ..1.. (Anuṣṭubh) ( BhP. 8.2.1 )
   Final rubric: f. 5r
iti śrībhāgavate !mā!<ma>hāpurāṇe aṣṭamaskaṁdhe matvaṁtarānuvarṇane gajeṁdropākhyāne dvitīyo dhyāyaḥ ..

   Work 1.2 (complete)

   Locus:ff. 5r–8v
   Part:Adhyāya 3
   Final rubric: f. 8v
iti śrībhāgavate mahāpurāṇe aṣṭamaskaṁdhe tṛtīyo dhyāyaḥ ..

   Work 1.3 (complete)

   Locus:ff. 8v–11r
   Part:Adhyāya 4
   Explicit: f. 11r
śrīśuka uvāca ..
ity ādiśya hṛṣīkeśaḥ pradhmāya jalajottamaṁ ..
harṣayan vibudhānīkam āruroha khagādhipaṁ ..26.. (Anuṣṭubh) ( BhP. 8.4.26 )
   Final rubric: f. 11r
iti śrībhāgavate !mā!<ma>hāpurāṇe aṣṭamaskaṁdhe caturtho dhyāyaḥ ..

   Work 1.4 (incomplete)

   Locus:f. 11r
   Part:Adhyāya 5

Physical description

Form:Folia
Material:Country paper
Extent:11 folia
Dimension:11 x 23.7 cm (h x w)
Foliation: Foliated in the upper left and lower right margins on the verso of each folio 1–10, and on f. 11r .
   Formula:1–11
   Signatures:bhā0 a0 appears above the folio number in the upper left margin on the verso of each folio, f. 3vf. 10v, and on the recto of the last, f. 11r; bhā0 ā0 on f. 1vf. 2v.
Collation: Single folia.
Binding: Unbound
Seal: A circular stamp on the right of f. 1r and f. 11v reads Library University Pennsylvania.
Layout:Seven lines per page.

Hands

Hand 1:Written in clear, bold, regular characters tilted slightly forward in straight lines.
Hand 2:The rubric on the front cover, which erroneously identifies the manuscript as containing only BhP. 8.4, is in a different hand.
Additions:

Mistakes are scribbled over.

Decoration

Color:Orange powder is rubbed in over the invocation, final rubrics, introductions of speakers, and numbers.
Border:Vertical triple red lines rule the left and right margins of the text on each page.

History

Origin: 17–
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 – 18th century.
SubjectLC:Manuscripts – India – 18th century.
SubjectSL:Purāṇa. Ancient Cosmogony, Genealogy, Narrative

Record history

Revised: 14 April 2012

Facsimile  (work 8)

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. 5r     f. 4v  f. 5r  
f. 5v, f. 6r     f. 5v  f. 6r  
f. 6v, f. 7r     f. 6v  f. 7r  
f. 7v, f. 8r     f. 7v  f. 8r  
f. 8v, f. 9r     f. 8v  f. 9r  
f. 9v, f. 10r     f. 9v  f. 10r  
f. 10v, f. 11r     f. 10v  f. 11r  
f. 11v     f. 11v  

Facsimile  (work 8.2)

Whole image     Individual pages
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. 5r     f. 4v  f. 5r  

Facsimile  (work 8.3)

Whole image     Individual pages
f. 4v, f. 5r     f. 4v  f. 5r  
f. 5v, f. 6r     f. 5v  f. 6r  
f. 6v, f. 7r     f. 6v  f. 7r  
f. 7v, f. 8r     f. 7v  f. 8r  
f. 8v, f. 9r     f. 8v  f. 9r  

Facsimile  (work 8.4)

Whole image     Individual pages
f. 8v, f. 9r     f. 8v  f. 9r  
f. 9v, f. 10r     f. 9v  f. 10r  
f. 10v, f. 11r     f. 10v  f. 11r  


Transcription (text structure)


Adhyāya 2:
aṣṭamaskaṁdha caturthādhyāya
śrīgaṇeśāya namaḥ ..
śrīśukauvāca ..
āsīd girivaro rājaṁs trikūṭa iti viśrutaḥ ..
kṣīrodenāvṛtaḥ śrīmān yojanāyutam u<c>chritaḥ ..1.. (Anuṣṭubh) ( BhP. 8.2.1 )
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iti śrībhāgavate !mā!<ma>hāpurāṇe aṣṭamaskaṁdhe matvaṁtarānuvarṇane gajeṁdropākhyāne dvitīyo dhyāyaḥ ..

Adhyāya 3:
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iti śrībhāgavate mahāpurāṇe aṣṭamaskaṁdhe tṛtīyo dhyāyaḥ ..

Adhyāya 4:
<...>
<...>
śrīśuka uvāca ..
ity ādiśya hṛṣīkeśaḥ pradhmāya jalajottamaṁ ..
harṣayan vibudhānīkam āruroha khagādhipaṁ ..26.. (Anuṣṭubh) ( BhP. 8.4.26 )
iti śrībhāgavate !mā!<ma>hāpurāṇe aṣṭamaskaṁdhe caturtho dhyāyaḥ ..

Adhyāya 5:
śrīśuka uvāca ..
rājannuditam etat te hareḥ karmāghanāśanaṁ .. (Triṣṭubh) ( BhP. 8.5.1ab )