Collection: | UPenn Ms. Coll. 390 |
Item: | 2374 |
Repository: | Rare Book & Manuscript Library |
Institution: | University of Pennsylvania |
Location: | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America |
Catalog: | Poleman |
Item: | 1332 |
Locus: | f. 1r–74v (complete) |
Author: | Kṛṣṇa Dvaipāyana Vyāsa |
Title: | Bhāgavatapurāṇa |
Part: | skandha 1 |
Incipit: |
f. 1v: janmādy asya yato <'> nvayād itarataś cārtheṣv abhijñaḥ svarāṭ tene brahma hṛdā ya ādikavaye muhyaṁti yat sūrayaḥ . tejovārimṛdāṁ yathā vinimayo yatra trisargo <'> mṛṣā dhāmnā svena sadā nirastakuhakaṁ satyaṁ paraṁ dhīmahi ..1.. Note: BhP. 1.1.1 |
Explicit: |
f. 74r: sūta uvāca .. .. evam ābhāṣitaḥ pṛṣṭaḥ sa rājñā ślakṣṇayā girā . pratyabhāṣata dharmmajño bhagavān bādarāyaṇiḥ ..40.. Note: BhP. 1.19.40 |
Final rubric: |
f. 74r: iti śrībhāgavate mahāpurāne prathamaskaṁdhe śukāgamanaṁ nāma ekonaviṁśo<'> dhyāyaḥ .. |
Colophon: | none |
Note: | The addition of skaṁdha 1 2 3 4 8 9 11 to the the rubric indicates that the manuscript was previously joined in a single item consisting of the enumerated sections. |
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 |
Locus: | f. 1v–74r (complete) |
Author: | Śrīdharasvāmin |
Part: | ad skandha 1 |
Incipit: |
f. 1v: õ namaḥ paramahaṁsāsvāditacaraṇakamalacinmakaraṁdāya bhaktajanamānasanivāsāya śrīrāmacaṁdrāya .. vāgīśā yasya vadane lakṣmīr ya() ca vakṣasi . yasyāste hṛdaye saṁvit taṁ nṛsiṁham ahaṁ bhaje ..1.. Note: Kṛṣṇaśaṅkara Śāstrin 1965 vol. 1, p. 1, ad 1.1.1 |
Explicit: |
f. 74r:
evam aho ityādikayā ślakṣṇayā madhurayā girā ābhāṣitaḥ abhimu
āryyaṁ dharmajam āhatārim avanau kṛtvā parīkṣin nṛpaṁ !vra!<bra> hmāstrād abhira!ṁ!<>kṣitaṁ kali[yā]ja()khyātaṁ ca kṛtvā bhuvi . aṁte yaḥ śukarūpataḥ svaparamajñā nopadeśena taṁ śāpād āvadamuṁ namāmi paramānaṁdākṛtiṁ mā[ṁ]dhavaṁ ..0.. Note: Kṛṣṇaśaṅkara Śāstrin 1965 vol. 1, p. 809, final verse following 1.19.40 |
Final rubric: |
f. 74r: iti prathme ekonaviṁśatimo <'> dhyāyaḥ .. ..[:]..1.. |
Colophon: | none |
Language: | Sanskrit in Devanāgarī script |
Form: | Folia |
Material: | Country-made paper. |
Extent: | 74 |
Dimension: | 15.1 x 37.5 cm |
Collation: | Single folios. |
Condition: | Fair to good. The ink is worn and faint some places, but the text is still legible. The paper is very brown and brittle. |
Binding: | Unbound. |
Layout: | Written in 7–16 lines per page in an hourglass arrangement with commentary above and below the base text. |
Hand 1: | Written in clear, bold, regular characters, some tilted forward, some backward, in wavy lines. |
Hand 2: | A second hand has written f53r-f55v, f63r-f68v in clear, bold, taller and erect characters in straight lines. |
Additions: |
To the rubric “prathama” on the front (f. 1r) was added in a different hand skaṁdha 1 2 3 4 8 9 11. Mistakes are covered over with yellow, written over, or bloched out with black. There are marignal corrections in different hands throughout. |
Color: | Some folios show faint remains of having been dyed yellow. Numbers, most double daṇḍas, the space between some double daṇḍas, some invocations, some introductions of speakers, some final rubrics, every other letter of some final rubrics, and daṇḍas between the letters of some colophons are written in red. Yellow is used to cover mistakes. |
Border: | Two sets of vertical double black lines filled with a red band 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 – 1. skandha. |
SubjectLC: | Manuscripts, Sanskrit – 19th century. |
SubjectLC: | Manuscripts – India – 19th century. |
SubjectSL: | Purāṇa. Ancient Cosmogony, Genealogy, Narrative |
evam aho ityādikayā ślakṣṇayā madhurayā girā ābhāṣitaḥ abhimu
Line 10: khīkṛtaḥ pṛṣṭaś ca ..
Record revised: | 24 April 2012 |
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