Manuscript Identifiers

Collection:UPenn Ms. Coll. 390
Item:2380
Repository:Rare Book & Manuscript Library
Institution:University of Pennsylvania
Location:Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Catalog:Poleman
Item:1338

Contents

Work 1

Locus:f. 1v-74v (complete)
Author:śrīdharasvāmin
Part:ad skandha 1
Incipit: f. 1v:
śrīparamahaṃsāsvaditacaraṇakamalacinmakaraṃdāya bhaktajanamānasanivāsāya śrīrāmacaṃdrāya
(BhP.S.BhD. 1.1.0 Sb01_001.tif )
Final rubric: f. 74r:
iti śrībhāgavate bhāvārthadīpikādīkāyām ekonaviṃśodhyāyaḥ ||
(cf. BhP.S.BhD. 01.19.40 Sb01_809.tif )
Colophon: f. 74v:
iti bhāgavate prathamaskaṃdhasamāptaḥmitiḥ || likhaka†????† śubhaṃ bhavatuḥ || rāmaḥ ||
Filiation:with UP2381, UP2382, UP2383, UP2384, UP2385 and likely with UP2250, UP2251, UP2252, UP2253, UP2254.
Language:Sanskrit in Devanagari script

Work 2

Locus:f. 1v-74v (complete)
Author:kṛṣṇa dvaipāyana vyāsa
Title:bhāgavatapurāṇa
Part:skandha 1
Incipit: f. 1v:
janmādyasya yato nvayād itarataś cārtheṣvabhijñaḥ [|]svarāṭ (
(BhP. 01.1.1a Sb01_001.tif )
Final rubric: f. 74r:
iti śrībhāgava[va]te mahāpurāṇe prathamaskaṃdhe 'ṣṭādaśasāhasryāṃ saṃhitāyāṃ śrīśukāgamanaṃ nāma ekonaviṃśo'dhyāyaḥ ||
(cf. BhP. 01.19.40 Sb01_809.tif )
Filiation:with UP2381, UP2382, UP2383, UP2384, UP2385 and likely with UP2250, UP2251, UP2252, UP2253, UP2254.
Language:Sanskrit in Devanagari script

Physical description

Form:folia
Material:country paper
Extent:74
Dimension:15.1 x 35.5 cm
Collation:single folia
Condition:excellent
Layout:nine to sixteen lines per leaf.

Hands

Hand 1:Marignal and interlinear additions and lengthy corrections by different hands. heavy notation in a different hand at f. 35r.

f. 74r:
adds the following in a different hand: akṣau hi†??† pari†??†ravādri†???†kṣibhir gajaiḥ

Additions:

An erroneous verse is entirely yellowed out on f. 4v. No other verse of the root text appears on that side of the leaf although the commentary does. There is, however, continuity between ff. 4v and 5r:
with regards the root text and there is continuity in the commentary between ff. 4v-5r. The commentary for BhP.1.1.4 is marked at end of f. 4v:
but continues to the end of f. 4v. Commentary for BhP.1.1.5 begins on f. 5r.

Decoration

Color:Some colophons, some introductory speakers, some double daṇḍas, in red. Some colophons, some introductions of speakers, some double daṇḍas, in purple. Orange powder rubbed in over numbers, some colophons, and some words. Mistakes covered over with yellow, crossed through, or written over.

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. ”

Facsimile

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Transcription

f. 1v:
Commentary:
śrīmahāgaṇapatye namaḥ || śrī lakṣmīśrīnṛsiṃhāyanamaḥ || oṃ namaḥ || śrīparamahaṃsāsvaditacaraṇakamalacinmakaraṃdāya bhaktajanamānasanivāsāya śrīrāmacaṃdrāya ...
(BhP.S.BhD. 1.1.0 Sb01_001.tif ) mū:
śrīgaṇeśāya namaḥ || janmādyasya yato nvayād itarataś cārtheṣvabhijñaḥ [|]svarāṭ (...
(BhP. 01.1.1a Sb01_001.tif )
f. 74r:
Commentary:
... iti śrībhāgavate bhāvārthadīpikādīkāyām ekonaviṃśodhyāyaḥ ||
(cf. BhP.S.BhD. 01.19.40 Sb01_809.tif ) iti bhāgavate prathamaskaṃdhasamāptaḥmitiḥ || likhaka†????† śubhaṃ bhavatuḥ || rāmaḥ || mū:
... iti śrībhāgava[va]te mahāpurāṇe prathamaskaṃdhe 'ṣṭādaśasāhasryāṃ saṃhitāyāṃ śrīśukāgamanaṃ nāma ekonaviṃśo'dhyāyaḥ || rāma || ||
(cf. BhP. 01.19.40 Sb01_809.tif )
Record revised:???date mo.??? 2010