Collection: | UPenn Ms. Coll. 390 |
Item: | 2303 |
Repository: | Rare Book & Manuscript Library |
Institution: | University of Pennsylvania |
Location: | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America |
Catalog: | Poleman |
Item: | 1327 |
Locus: | ff. 1r–67v |
Author: | Kṛṣṇa Dvaipāyana Vyāsa |
Title: | Bhāgavatapurāṇa |
Part: | Skandha 7 |
Incipit: |
f. 1v
.. rājovāca .. .. samaḥ priyaḥ suhṛd brahman bhūtānāṁ bhagavān svayaṁ . indrasyārthe kathaṁ daityān avadhīd viṣamo yathā ..1.. (Anuṣṭubh) ( BhP. 7.1.1 ) |
Explicit: |
f. 67r
iti dākṣāyaṇīnāṁ te pṛtha!k!<g> vaṁśāḥ prakīrtitāḥ .. devāsu!m!<>ramanuṣyādyā lokā yatra carācarāḥ ..80.. ( BhP. 7.15.80 ) (Anuṣṭubh) |
Final rubric: |
f. 67r
.. iti śrībhā<ga>vate mahāpurāṇe pāramahaṁsyāṁ saṁhitāyāṁ saptaskaṁdhe prahlādānucarite yudhi!ṣṭi!<ṣṭhi>rasaṁvāde sādācāraḥ paṁcadaśo 'dhyāyaḥ .. ..15.. .. |
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: | ff. 1r–67v |
Author: | Śrīdharasvāmin |
Part: | ad skandha 7 |
Incipit: |
f. 1v
svabhaktapakṣapāte(na) tadvipakṣavidāraṇaṁ .. nṛsiṁham adbhutaṁ vaṁde paramānaṁdavigrahaṁ ..1.. ( Kṛṣṇaśaṅkara Śāstrin 1965 vol. 7, p. 1, 7.1 intro. ) (Anuṣṭubh) |
Explicit: |
f. 67r
tvaṁ tu kṛtārtha eveti harṣeṇa punaḥ pūrvaślokān eva paṭhati yūyam iti . śeṣaṁ spaṣṭam ..75..79..80.. ( Kṛṣṇaśaṅkara Śāstrin 1965 vol. 7, p. 584, 7.15.80 ) |
Final rubric: |
f. 67r
.. iti śrībhāgavatabhāvārthadīpikāyāṁ śrīśrīdharasvāmiviravitāyāṁ ṭīkāyāṁ saptamaskaṁdhe paṁcadaśo <'>dhyāyaḥ .. ..15.. |
Colophon: | none |
Language: | Sanskrit in Devanāgarī script |
Form: | Folia |
Material: | Country-made paper |
Extent: | 67 folia |
Dimension: | 16.7 x 39.6 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. 67r ). The front and back, f. 1r and f. 67v , are blank except for the addition on the back. |
Formula: | 1–67 |
Signatures: | bhā0 sa0 is written above the folio number in the upper left margin on each folio (bhā0 sapta0 on f. 10v, f. 11v, f. 13v–f. 15v, f. 25v, f. 26v, f. 42v; bhā0 sa0 ma0 on f. 12v). Above the folio number in the lower right margin, rāma, rāmaḥ, or rāmaḥ2 is written on f. 1v, f. 3v, f. 8v–f. 32v, f. 39v–f. 66v, and f. 67r. |
Collation: | Single folia |
Condition: | Very good. There are light water stains in the top margin of ff. 1–13, ff. 39–54, and ff. 65–67; and yellow spots on f. 20. |
Binding: | Unbound |
Seal: | A circular stamp on the right of f. 67v reads Library University Pennsylvania. |
Layout: | Written in 8–14 lines per page in an hourglass arrangement with commentary above and below the base text. |
Summary: | The manuscript is written by three different hands. |
Hand 1: | f. 1r–f. 9v and f. 33r–f. 38v, f. 60r–f. 67r are written in clear, regular characters tilted forward in straight lines. In the latter section the base text is written bolder and larger. |
Hand 2: | f. 10r–f. 32v, and f. 39r–f. 39v, f. 41r–f. 59v are written in clear, characters erect or tilted leftward in straight lines. |
Hand 3: | f. 40r–f. 40v is written in thinner descending or rising lines. |
Additions: |
The numeral 7 is written in a different hand on the back, i.e. on f. 67v, indicating the number of the skandha. Mistakes covered over with yellow, written over, blocked out, crossed through, or indicated by vertical strokes above the syllable in question. There are marignal 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 – 7. skandha. |
SubjectLC: | Manuscripts, Sanskrit – 19th century. |
SubjectLC: | Manuscripts – India – 19th century. |
SubjectSL: | Purāṇa. Ancient Cosmogony, Genealogy, Narrative |