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 (complete)

Locus:ff. 1r–58v
Author:Kṛṣṇa Dvaipāyana Vyāsa
Title:Bhāgavatapurāṇa
Part:Skandha 8
Incipit: f. 1r
rājñovāca ..
svāyaṁbhuvasyeha guro vaṁśo <'>yaṁ vistarā<c> chrutaḥ .
yatra viśvasṛjāṁ sargo manūn anyān vadasva naḥ ..1.. (Anuṣṭubh)
yatra yatra harer janma karmāṇi ca mahīyasaḥ .
grṇaṁti kavayo !v!<b>rahman tāni no vada śṛṇvatāṁ ..2.. (Anuṣṭubh) ( BhP. 8.1.1–8.1.2 )
Explicit: [[facs=f82r, locus=f. 82r]]
pralayapayasi dhātuḥ suptaśakter mukhebhyaḥ
śrutigaṇam apanītaṁ pratyupādāya hatvā .
ditijam akathayad yo !v!<b>rahma satyavratānāṁ
tam aham akhilahetuṁ jihmamīnaṁ nato <'>smi ..51.. ( BhP. 8.24.61 ) (Mālinī)
Final rubric: [[facs=f82r, locus=f. 82r]]

iti śrībhāgavate mahāpurāṇe pāramahaṁsyāṁ saṁhi
.. cha ..
tāyāṁ aṣṭamaskaṁdhe bhagavato matsyāvatāracaritānuvarṇanaṁ caturviṁśatimo <'>dhyāyaḥ ..24..
Colophon:none
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

Work 2 (complete)

Locus:ff. 1r–58v
Author:Śrīdharasvāmin
Part:ad skandha 8
Incipit: f. 1r
iti śrībhāgavate mahāpurāṇe pāramahaṁsyāṁ saṁhi
tāyāṁ aṣṭamaskaṁdhe bhagavato matsyāvatāracaritānuvarṇanaṁ caturviṁśatimo <'>dhyāyaḥ ..24..
õ namaḥ śrīparamahaṁsāsvāditacaraṇakamalacinmakaraṁdāya !.!<> bhaktajanamānasanivāsāya śrīrāmāya ..1.. ( Kṛṣṇaśaṅkara Śāstrin 1965 vol. 8, p. 2, 8.1 intro. )
athāṣṭame caturviṁśatyadhyāy!e!<aiḥ> manuvarṇanaṁ .
tatsutair ṛṣideveṁdrair mūrttibhiś ca hareḥ saha ..2. ( Kṛṣṇaśaṅkara Śāstrin 1965 vol. 8, p. 2, 8.1 intro, verse 1 ) (Anuṣṭubh)
Explicit: [[facs=f82r, locus=f. 82r]]
(satyavratānāṁ) satyavravratasya ṛṣīṇāṁ ca <c>chatriṇo ga<c>chaṁtītival liṁgasamavāyād bahuvacanaṁ ..
jihmamīnaṁ māyā[hatyaṁ](matsyaṁ) .. < 8 > Kṛṣṇaśaṅkara Śāstrin 1965 vol. 8, p. 560, ad 8.24.61
Final rubric: f. 58r
.. iti śrībhāgavat(e) bhāvārthadīpikāyāṁ śrīdharasvāmiviravitāyāṁ aṣṭamaskaṁdhe catu.. r viṁśaḥ ..24..
Colophon:none
Language:Sanskrit in Devanāgarī script

Physical description

Form:Folia
Material:Country-made paper
Extent:58 folia
Dimension:15.1 x 37.4 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. 58r ). The front and back, f. 1r and f. 58r , are blank except for the addition on the front. Although the numeral in the upper left margin is correct, the numeral in the lower right margin on f. 29v is incorrectly written foreign 28 .
   Formula:1–58
   Signatures:bhā0 a0 is written above the folio number in the upper left margin on each folio. Above the folio number in the lower right margin, rāma is written on f. 10v.
Collation: Single folia
Condition:Good. There are water stains in the margins throughout, and a large black smudge on f. 4v. The ink is worn off in some places (e.g. f. 3v), but the text is still legible.
Binding: Unbound
Seal: A circular stamp on the right of f. 58v reads Library University Pennsylvania.
Layout:Written in 10–13 lines per page in an hourglass arrangement with commentary above and below the base text.

Hands

Hand 1:Written in clear, bold, regular characters, tilted forward, in slightly wavy lines.
Additions:

The rubric on f. 1r was added in a different hand. Mistakes are covered over with yellow, written over, or bloched out with black. There are marignal corrections in different hands throughout.

There are marignal corrections and some lengthy additions in different hands.

On f. 3v a different hand has added the text corresponding with BhP. 8.1.32–8.1.32, and the commentary corresponding with Kṛṣṇaśaṅkara Śāstrin 1965 vol. 8, p. 25, ad 8.1.32, neither of which is present in the manuscript where the chapter ends without a colophon. Additionally, the same hand adds śrīgoviṁdāya nama gopā[?]ya.

On f. 15vf. 16r, a different hand (possibly the same as the hand that made additions on f. 3v) has added six lines of commentary to replace text covered in yellow. The added lines correspond with Kṛṣṇaśaṅkara Śāstrin 1965 vol. 8, pp. 140, 144, 148 ad 8.6.17–8.6.33 with some variation in content and in numbering. These include saṁraṁbheṇa saṁbhrameṇa through parighā ivabāhavo yeṣāṁte ..33.., corresponding with Kṛṣṇaśaṅkara Śāstrin 1965 vol. 8, pp. 140, 144, 148 ad 8.6.24–8.6.33, written on f. 16r, and the fill and benediction cha .. cha .. cha .. cha .. rāma rāma kṇśṅa khṇśṅa goviṁdāya ... In the bottom of the right margin on f. 16r a correcting hand has written saṁbhrameṇa 2.

Decoration

Color:Some double daṇḍas, the space between some double daṇḍas, every other syllable of invocation, some final rubrics, and some introductions of speakers are written in red. Orange powder is rubbed over some final rubrics, some introductions of speakers, and some syllables. Yellow is used to cover mistakes. Every other syllable of the opening invocation in the text and commentary on f. 1v, and the beginning of the final rubric on f. 58r is written in red.
Border:Two sets of vertical double black lines rule the left and right margins of the text on each page.

History

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.

Subject headings

SubjectLC:Puranas – Bhāgavatapurāṇa – 8. skandha.
SubjectLC:Manuscripts, Sanskrit – 19th century.
SubjectLC:Manuscripts – India – 19th century.
SubjectSL:Purāṇa. Ancient Cosmogony, Genealogy, Narrative

Record history

Revised: 24 April 2012

Facsimile  (work )

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f. 58v     f. 58v  


Transcription (text structure)


Mūla:
aṣṭama
śrīgaṇeśāya namaḥ .. ..
rājñovāca ..
svāyaṁbhuvasyeha guro vaṁśo <'>yaṁ vistarā<c> chrutaḥ .
yatra viśvasṛjāṁ sargo manūn anyān vadasva naḥ ..1.. (Anuṣṭubh)
yatra yatra harer janma karmāṇi ca mahīyasaḥ .
grṇaṁti kavayo !v!<b>rahman tāni no vada śṛṇvatāṁ ..2.. (Anuṣṭubh) ( BhP. 8.1.1–8.1.2 )
<...>
<...>
pralayapayasi dhātuḥ suptaśakter mukhebhyaḥ
śrutigaṇam apanītaṁ pratyupādāya hatvā .
ditijam akathayad yo !v!<b>rahma satyavratānāṁ
tam aham akhilahetuṁ jihmamīnaṁ nato <'>smi ..51.. ( BhP. 8.24.61 ) (Mālinī)

iti śrībhāgavate mahāpurāṇe pāramahaṁsyāṁ saṁhi
.. cha ..
tāyāṁ aṣṭamaskaṁdhe bhagavato matsyāvatāracaritānuvarṇanaṁ caturviṁśatimo <'>dhyāyaḥ ..24..


Commentary:
.. .. śrīgaṇe!śa!<śā>ya namaḥ ..
õ namaḥ śrīparamahaṁsāsvāditacaraṇakamalacinmakaraṁdāya !.!<> bhaktajanamānasanivāsāya śrīrāmāya ..1.. ( Kṛṣṇaśaṅkara Śāstrin 1965 vol. 8, p. 2, 8.1 intro. )
athāṣṭame caturviṁśatyadhyāy!e!<aiḥ> manuvarṇanaṁ .
tatsutair ṛṣideveṁdrair mūrttibhiś ca hareḥ saha ..2. ( Kṛṣṇaśaṅkara Śāstrin 1965 vol. 8, p. 2, 8.1 intro, verse 1 ) (Anuṣṭubh)
<...>
<...>
(satyavratānāṁ) satyavravratasya ṛṣīṇāṁ ca <c>chatriṇo ga<c>chaṁtītival liṁgasamavāyād bahuvacanaṁ ..
jihmamīnaṁ māyā[hatyaṁ](matsyaṁ) .. < 8 > Kṛṣṇaśaṅkara Śāstrin 1965 vol. 8, p. 560, ad 8.24.61

.. iti śrībhāgavat(e) bhāvārthadīpikāyāṁ śrīdharasvāmiviravitāyāṁ aṣṭamaskaṁdhe catu.. r viṁśaḥ ..24..
śubham astu ..