Collection: | UPenn Ms. Coll. 390 |
Item: | 2299 |
Repository: | Rare Book & Manuscript Library |
Institution: | University of Pennsylvania |
Location: | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America |
Catalog: | Poleman |
Item: | 1323 |
Locus: | fr. 1r–43v |
Author: | Kṛṣṇa Dvaipāyana Vyāsa |
Title: | Bhāgavatapurāṇa |
Part: | Skandha 2 |
Incipit: |
f. 1v
.. śrīsuka u .. .. varīyān eṣa te praśnaḥ kṛto lokahitaṁ nṛpa .. ātmavitsaṁmataḥ puṁsāṁ śrotavyādiṣu yaḥ paraḥ ..1.. (Anuṣṭubh) ( BhP. 2.1.1 ) |
Explicit: |
f. 43r
.. sūta uvāca .. .. rājñā parīkṣitā pṛṣṭo yad avocan mahāmuniḥ .. tad vo <'>bhidhāsye śṛṇuta rājñaḥ praśnānusārataḥ ..51.. (Anuṣṭubh) ( BhP. 2.10.51 ) |
Final rubric: |
f. 43r
.. iti śrībhāgavate mahāpurāṇe dvitīyaskaṁdhe aṣṭādaśasāhasryāṁ saṁhitāyāṁ daśamaḥ .. |
Colophon: | none |
Filiation: | The eight manuscripts in the University of Pennsylvania's Collection of Indic Manuscripts, Items 2298–2305 (UPenn 2298, UPenn 2299, UPenn 2300, UPenn 2301, UPenn 2302, UPenn 2303, UPenn 2304, UPenn 2305) constitute a set of manuscripts of several skandhas of the Bhāgavatapurāṇa with Śrīdharasvāmin's Bhāgavatabhāvārthadīpikā written by the same hand. |
Language: | Sanskrit in Devanāgarī script |
Locus: | fr. 1r–43v |
Author: | Śrīdharasvāmin |
Part: | ad skandha 2 |
Incipit: |
f. 1v
dvitīye tu daśādhyāyai(ḥ) śrībhāgavatam āditaḥ .. u!de!<dde>śalakṣaṇoktibhyāṁ saṁkṣepeṇopavarṇyate ..1.. ( Kṛṣṇaśaṅkara Śāstrin 1965 vol. 2, p. 1, 2.1 intro. ) (Anuṣṭubh) |
Explicit: |
f. 43r
rājñā pṛṣṭaḥ iti ayamarthaḥ yat yūyaṁ pṛ<c>chatha idam eva rājāpi śukaṁ pṛṣṭavān śuko <'>pi (vi)duramaitreyasaṁvādaṁ puraskṛtya ye pūrvaṁ rājñākṛtāḥ praśanāḥ tadanusāreṇa sarvaṁ purāṇārtham avocat tadevāhaṁ te <'>bhidhāsyāmi tathaiva śṛṇuteti ..51.. .. ( Kṛṣṇaśaṅkara Śāstrin 1965 vol. 2, p. 507, ad 2.10.51 ) |
Final rubric: |
f. 43r
.. iti śrībhāgavatabhāvārthadīpikāyāṁ śrīdharasvāmiviracitāyāṁ ṭīkāyāṁ dvi!y!<>tīyaskaṁda<da>śamo <'>dhyāyaḥ .. .. |
Explicit: |
f. 43r
śrīmadbhāgvataṁ yena svabrahmamukhatomitaṁ .. brahmanāradayoḥ proktaṁ taṁ vaṁde gurum īśvaraṁ ..1.. (Anuṣṭubh) yat sū(tra)yaṁtritaṁ viśvaṁ narīnartti jagattrayaṁ .. saṁtas tam eva pṛ<c>chaṁtu yad atra!sakha!<skha>litaṁ mama ..2.. (Anuṣṭubh) dvitīyaskaṁdhasaṁbaṁdhipadabhāvārthadīpikā .. uddīpyatām iyaṁ sadbhir yathā syāt ta<t>tvadīpakaṁ ..3.. (Anuṣṭubh) ikṣaṁtām i<c>chayā saṁtaḥ kṣamaṁtāṁ mama sāhasaṁ .. mayā hi svīya !ra!<>bodhāya kṛtam etan na sarvataḥ ..4.. (Anuṣṭubh) ( Kṛṣṇaśaṅkara Śāstrin 1965 vol. 2, p. 507, following 2.10.51 ) |
Colophon: | none |
Language: | Sanskrit in Devanāgarī script |
Form: | Folia |
Material: | Country-made paper |
Extent: | 43 folia |
Dimension: | 17 x 40 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. 43r ). The front and back, f. 1r and f. 43v , are blank except for the addition on the back. |
Formula: | 1–43 |
Signatures: | bhā0 dvi0 is written above the folio number in the upper left margin on each folio. Above the folio number in the lower right margin, rāmaḥ2 is written on f. 5v, f. 19v–f. 24v, f. 26v–f. 27v, f. 29v, f. 34v–f. 35v, f. 37v–f. 42v, f. 43r, and rāma on f. 11v, f. 14v. |
Collation: | Single folia |
Condition: | Very good with minor water stains in the left and right margins. |
Binding: | Bound between hand-carved Indian Rosewood (Sheesham) boards inscribed with the text title (very worn and difficult to read) on the inside of the front board. Dimensions: height 17.5cm, width 40cm. Dimensions: height 17.5cm, width 37.7cm. |
Seal: | A circular stamp on the right of f. 43v reads Library University Pennsylvania. |
Layout: | Written in 10–15 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 2 is written in a different hand on the back, i.e. on f. 43v, 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. |
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 – 2. skandha. |
SubjectLC: | Manuscripts, Sanskrit – 19th century. |
SubjectLC: | Manuscripts – India – 19th century. |
SubjectSL: | Purāṇa. Ancient Cosmogony, Genealogy, Narrative |