Manuscript Identifiers

Collection:UPenn Ms. Coll. 390
Item:2378
Repository:Rare Book & Manuscript Library
Institution:University of Pennsylvania
Location:Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Catalog:Poleman
Item:1336

Contents

Work 1

Locus:f. 1r-58r (complete)
Author:śrīdharasvāmin
Part:ad skandha 8
Incipit: f. 1r:
oṃ namaḥ śrīparamahaṃsāsvādita caraṇakamalacinmakaraṃdāya | bhaktajanamānasanivāsāya śrīrāmāya ||1||
(cf. BhP.S.BhD. 8.1.0 Sb08_002.tif )
Final rubric: f. 58r:
iti śrībhāgavat( abhāvārthadīpikāyāṃ śrīdharasvāmiviravitāyāṃ aṣṭamaskaṃdhe catur || viṃśaḥ ||24||
(cf. BhP.S.BhD. 08.24.61 Sb08_559.tif )
Filiation:UP2374, UP2375, UP2376, UP2377, UP2379, all of which have clear textual filiation; and possibly with UP2373.
Language:Sanskrit in Devanagari script

Work 2

Locus:f. 1r-58r (complete)
Author:kṛṣṇa dvaipāyana vyāsa
Title:bhāgavatapurāṇa
Part:skandha 8
Incipit: f. 1r:
rājñovāca || svāyaṃbhuvasyeha guro vaṃśo{'}yaṃ vistarā{c} chrutaḥ |
yatra viśvasṛjāṃ sargo manūn anyān vadasva naḥ ||1|| yatra yatra harer janma karmāṇi ca mahīyasaḥ |...
(BhP. 08.1.1-2b Sb08_001.tif )
Final rubric: f. 82r:
iti śrībhāgavate mahāpurāṇe pāramahaṃsyāṃ[saṃhi || ca || tāyāṃ] aṣṭamaskaṃdhe bhagavato matsyāvatāracaritānuvarṇanaṃ caturviṃśatimo{'}dhyāyaḥ ||24||
(cf. BhP. 08.24.61 Sb08_559.tif )
Filiation:UP2374, UP2375, UP2376, UP2377, UP2379, all of which have clear textual filiation; and possibly with UP2373. Compare, e.g., "bha" akṣaras in all three, which looks often more like "ta" or "la"
Language:Sanskrit in Devanagari script

Physical description

Form:folia
Material:country paper
Extent:58
Dimension:15.1 x 37.4 cm
Foliation: f. 28v-30r; the 29th folio is written as f. 28; however, there is textual continuity between it and folio and f. 30
Collation:single folia
Condition:Good; some staining. The ink is wearing off in some places, but the text is still legible.
Layout:ten to thirteen lines per leaf.

Hands

Hand 1:Marignal corrections and some lengthy additions in different hands.
Hand 2: f. 3v:
text is incomplete here going only to śloka 30 in root text while the commentary at top goes to 31, stating:amūmucat | mocayāmāsa ||31||. At the bottom of folio, in a different hand, the root text is completed up to BhP.8.1.32; there is no colophon. The commentary also goes up to 32 at the bottom in a different hand. Additionally, the following text is added in the different hand after the commentary:śrīgoviṃdāya namago†???†
Hand 3: ff. 15v-16r:
: many additions to commentary, possibly in a new hand. The top and bottom of f. 16 has basically all been effaced with yellow chalk and a new commentary imposed over top of it.
Hand 4:Some numeration problems possibly caused in the root text by a second hand ff. 15v-16r:
at BhP.8.6.23-24. Further verse numeration problems in the commentary at BhP.S.BhD.08.06.20 written as BhP.S.BhD.08.06.23
(cf. BhP.S.BhD. 8.6.20 Sb08_140.tif ). At f. 16r:
a second scribe adds commentary from BhP.S.BhD.08.6.24: saṃraṃbheṇa saṃbhrameṇa
(BhP.S.BhD.8.6.24 Sb08_140.tif ), until BhP.S.BhD.08.6.33 parighā ivabāhavo yeṣāṃte ||33||
(BhP.S.BhD.8.6.33 Sb08_148.tif ). The second scribe then adds: ca || ca || ca || ca || rāmarāmakṛṣṇaKṛṣṇagoviṃdāya || at the end of f. 16r.

Decoration

Color:Some double daṇḍas, the space between some double daṇḍas, every other syllable of invocation, some colophons, some introductions of speakers in red. Orange powder rubbed in over some colophons, some introductions of speakers, and some syllables. Mistakes covered over with yellow or written over. Some black blotches. The akṣaras: ga, śā and na of opening commentary f. 1r:
are in red. The akṣaras: ti, bhā, va, ma, pu, ṇe, ra, and haṃ in the final rubric f. 58r:
are in red.

History

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. ”

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Transcription

f. 1r:
Commentary:
śrīgaṇe[śa]{śā}ya namaḥ || oṃ namaḥ śrīparamahaṃsāsvādita caraṇakamalacinmakaraṃdāya | bhaktajanamānasanivāsāya śrīrāmāya ||1|| ...
(cf. BhP.S.BhD. 8.1.0 Sb08_002.tif ) mū:
śrīgaṇeśāya namaḥ || || rājñovāca || svāyaṃbhuvasyeha guro vaṃśo{'}yaṃ vistarā{c} chrutaḥ |
yatra viśvasṛjāṃ sargo manūn anyān vadasva naḥ ||1|| yatra yatra harer janma karmāṇi ca mahīyasaḥ | ...
(BhP. 08.1.1-2b Sb08_001.tif )
Commentary:
f. 58r:
... iti śrībhāgavat( abhāvārthadīpikāyāṃ śrīdharasvāmiviravitāyāṃ aṣṭamaskaṃdhe catur || viṃśaḥ ||24|| śubhamastu||
(cf. BhP.S.BhD. 08.24.61 Sb08_559.tif ) mū:
f. 82r:
... iti śrībhāgavate mahāpurāṇe pāramahaṃsyāṃ[saṃhi || ca || tāyāṃ] aṣṭamaskaṃdhe bhagavato matsyāvatāracaritānuvarṇanaṃ caturviṃśatimo{'}dhyāyaḥ ||24||
(cf. BhP. 08.24.61 Sb08_559.tif )
Record revised:???date mo.??? 2010