Collection: | UPenn Ms. Coll. 390 |
Item: | 2304 |
Repository: | Rare Book & Manuscript Library |
Institution: | University of Pennsylvania |
Location: | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America |
Catalog: | Poleman |
Item: | 1328 |
Locus: | ff. 1r–51v |
Author: | Kṛṣṇa Dvaipāyana Vyāsa |
Title: | Bhāgavatapurāṇa |
Part: | Skandha 9 |
Incipit: |
f. 1v
.. rājovāca .. .. manvaṁtarāṇi sarvāṇi tvayoktāni śrutā!ni!<ṇi> me vīryāṇy anantavīryasya hares tatra kṛtāni ca ..1.. (Anuṣṭubh) ( BhP. 9.1.1 ) |
Explicit: |
f. 51r
pṛthvyāḥ sa vai gurubharaṁ kṣapayan kurūṇām antaḥsamutthakalinā yudhi bhūpacamvaḥ . dṛṣṭyā vidhūya vijaye jayam udvighuṣya procyoddhavāya ca paraṁ samag[a](ā)t svadhāma ..67.. ( BhP. 9.24.67 ) (Vasantatilakā) |
Final rubric: |
f. 51r
.. iti śrī bhāgavate mahāpurāṇe pāramahaṁsyāṁ saṁhitāyāṁ navamaskaṁdhe yaduvaṁśānukīrtanaṁ nāma caturviṁśo 'dhyāyaḥ .. .. |
Colophon: | none |
Language: | Sanskrit in Devanāgarī script |
Locus: | f. 1r-51v |
Author: | Śrīdharasvāmin |
Part: | ad skandha 9 |
Incipit: |
f. 1v
guṇā yaṁ guṇatāvāptyai vṛṇvate karuṇānidhiṁ .. tam ahaṁ śaraṇaṁ yami paramānaṁdamādhavam ..1.. ( Kṛṣṇaśaṅkara Śāstrin 1965 vol. 9, p. 1, 9.1 intro. ) (Anuṣṭubh) |
Explicit: |
f. 51r
aṁtaḥsamutthena kalinā nimittena gurubhāraṁkṣapayan dṛṣṭyaiva bhūr vidhūya vijaye jay!e!<a>ṁ arjunena jitam ity evam udghoṣaṁ kṛtvā paraṁ ta<t>tvam uddhavāyopadisya svadhāma samyak sve/tenaiva rūpeṇa jagāmeti ..67.. ( Kṛṣṇaśaṅkara Śāstrin 1965 vol. 9, p. 536, ad 9.24.67 ) |
Final rubric: |
f. 51r
.. iti śrībhāgavatabhāvārthadīpikāyāṁ śrīdharasvāmiviracitāyaṁ navamaskaṁdhe caturviśo <'>dhyāyaḥ .. ..24.. .. |
Colophon: | none |
Language: | Sanskrit in Devanāgarī script |
Form: | Folia |
Material: | Country-made paper |
Extent: | 51 folia |
Dimension: | 17 x 40.5 cm (h x w) |
Foliation: | Foliated in the upper left and lower right margins on the verso of each folio, except the last which is numbered on the recto ( f. 51r ) and f. 28v which is missing the number in the lower right margin. The front and back, f. 1r and f. 51v , are blank except for the addition on the back. |
Formula: | 1–51 |
Signatures: | bhā0 na0 is written above the folio number in the upper left margin on each folio, and rāmaḥ2 is written above the folio number in the lower right margin except on f. 6v, f. 8v, f. 11v, f. 14v, f. 23v, and f. 28v. |
Collation: | Single folia |
Condition: | Very good; there is a yellow stain in the lower right corner of f. 37. |
Binding: | Unbound |
Seal: | A circular stamp on the right of f. 1r and f. 51v reads Library University Pennsylvania. |
Layout: | Written in 11–15 lines per page in an hourglass arrangement with commentary above and below the base text. |
Hand 1: | Written in clear, bold, regular characters tilted forward in straight lines. |
Additions: |
The numeral 9 is written in a different hand on the back, i.e. on f. 51v, indicating the number of the skandha. Mistakes are covered over with yellow, written over, blocked out, or indicated by short vertical strokes above the syllable in question. There are marginal corrections. |
Color: | Yellow is used to cover mistakes. |
Border: | Two sets of vertical double red lines rule the left and right margins of the text on each page. |
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. |
SubjectLC: | Puranas – Bhāgavatapurāṇa – 9. skandha. |
SubjectLC: | Manuscripts, Sanskrit – 19th century. |
SubjectLC: | Manuscripts – India – 19th century. |
SubjectSL: | Purāṇa. Ancient Cosmogony, Genealogy, Narrative |