Collection: | UPenn Ms. Coll. 390 |
Item: | 2620 |
Repository: | Rare Book & Manuscript Library |
Institution: | University of Pennsylvania |
Location: | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America |
Catalog: | Poleman |
Item: | 1348 |
Locus: | ff. 1r–60v (complete) |
Author: | Kṛṣṇa Dvaipāyana Vyāsa |
Title: | Bhāgavatapurāṇa |
Part: | skandha 6 |
Incipit: |
f. 1v: rājovāca .. nivṛttimārgaḥ kathita ādau bhagavataḥ yathā .. kramayogopalabdhena brahmaṇā yadasaṁsṛtiḥ ..1.. Note: BhP. 6.1.1 |
Explicit: |
f. 60r: tuṣṭā<ḥ> praya<c> chaṁ ti samastakāmān .. homāvasāne hutabhuk śrīhariś ca ..!27..!<> rājan mahan marutāṁ janma puṇyaṁ !diter janmapuṇyaṁ!<> diter vrataṁ cābhihitaṁ mahat te ..28.. Note: BhP. 6.19.28 |
Final rubric: |
f. 60r: ṣaṣ!ṭ!<ṭh>e skaṁdhe ūnaviṁśaḥ ..19.. |
Colophon: | none |
Filiation: | The thirteen manuscripts in the University of Pennsylvania's Collection of Indic Manuscripts, Items 2617–2629 (UPenn 2617, UPenn 2618, UPenn 2619, UPenn 2620, UPenn 2621, UPenn 2622, UPenn 2623, UPenn 2624, UPenn 2625, UPenn 2626, UPenn 2627, UPenn 2628, UPenn 2629) constitute a set of related manuscripts that contains the complete text of the Bhāgavatapurāṇa with Śrīdharasvāmin's Bhāgavatabhāvārthadīpikā. Three or four hands contributed to the set. It is fairly certain that UPenn 2617, UPenn 2622, and UPenn 2624 were written by the same hand; that UPenn 2618, UPenn 2620, UPenn 2621, UPenn 2625, UPenn 2627, and UPenn 2629 were written by a second hand; and UPenn 2619 and UPenn 2626 were written by a third hand. UPenn 2628. UPenn 2628 was written by the third hand (with UPenn 2619 and UPenn 2626) and the second hand (with UPenn 2618, etc. Despite similarity to manuscripts written by the second hand, UPenn 2623 has some distinctive characteristics, such as the shape of the syllable o~, that suggest that it is written by a fourth hand. |
Language: | Sanskrit in Devanāgarī script |
Locus: | ff. 1r–60v (complete) |
Author: | Śrīdharasvāmin |
Part: | ad skandha 6 |
Incipit: |
f. 1v: puṇyāraṇye nṛsiṁhaikanāmasiṁho virājate .. yannādataḥ palāyaṁte mahākalmaṣakuṁjarā<ḥ> ..1.. Note: Kṛṣṇaśaṅkara Śāstrin 1965 vol. 6, p. 1, 6.1 intro. |
Explicit: |
f. 60r: ṣaṣṭhaskaṁdhe nigūḍhārthapadabhāvārthadīpikā sadbhir āsevyatām eṣā yā tu śrīdharanirmitā ..28.. Note: Kṛṣṇaśaṅkara Śāstrin 1965 vol. 6, p. 605, 6.19 end |
Final rubric: |
f. 60r, right margin: iti śrībhāvārthadīpikāyāṁ ṣaṣ!ṭ!<ṭh>a!ṁ!<ḥ> skaṁdhaḥ samāptaḥ ..6.. |
Colophon: | none |
Language: | Sanskrit in Devanāgarī script |
Form: | Folia |
Material: | Fine country-made paper. |
Extent: | 60 |
Dimension: | 19.7 x 32 cm |
Collation: | Single folios. |
Condition: | Very good. The right margin of f. 40r, f. 40v is damaged as is the top margin of f. 50r, bottom margin of f. 50v. The edges of ff. 47–50 have been eaten by worms and are tattered. |
Binding: | Unbound. |
Layout: | Written in 14–20 lines per page in an hourglass arrangement with commentary above and below the base text. The commentary and base text are frequently continued up the right (f. 3r, f. 4r, f. 5r, f. 5v, f. 6v, etc.) or left margin (f. 9r, f. 24r). |
Hand 1: | Written in small, clear, bold, regular characters, erect or tilted forward, in slightly wavy lines. |
Additions: |
On f. 60v, "(6)", indicating the number of the skandha, is written. Mistakes are covered over with yellow (e.g f. 2v, f. 11v, f. 18v, f. 19r, f. 27r, f. 46v), once with red (f. 2v). Marginal and interlinear corrections in a different hand are rare (f. 16r, f. 19r). |
Color: | The invocation, double daṇḍas, some introductions of speakers, some syllables of some introductions of speakers, and some syllables of final rubrics are written in red. Yellow is used to cover mistakes. |
Origin: | According to the colophon in UPenn 2627, the twelfth skandha in the set of which this manuscript is a part, was completed on 3 January 1825 A.D., by Danapata on the bank of the river candraBAgA . |
Provenance: | According to the colophon in the square panel inset in the center of f. 1v of UPenn 2622, the first skandha in the set of which this manuscript is a part, the manuscript was presented on 26 July 1911 A.D., to aniruddha, the narrator of the story of the supreme person, in bhuvaneśvara by villū, of the kauśalya gotra, who dwellt in the village nuhelā. |
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 – 6. skandha. |
SubjectLC: | Manuscripts, Sanskrit – 19th century. |
SubjectLC: | Manuscripts – India – 19th century. |
SubjectSL: | Purāṇa. Ancient Cosmogony, Genealogy, Narrative |
Record revised: | 28 April 2012 |
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