Collection: | UPenn Ms. Coll. 390 |
Item: | 2174 |
Repository: | Rare Book & Manuscript Library |
Institution: | University of Pennsylvania |
Location: | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America |
Catalog: | Poleman |
Item: | 1306 |
Locus: | ff. 1r-27v |
Author: | Kṛṣṇa Dvaipāyana Vyāsa |
Title: | Rāsapañcādhyāyī |
Rubric: |
f. 1r
a!thī!<tha> śrībhāgavatadaśamaskaṁ!d!<dh>āṁtargataadhyāyaprāraṁbhaḥ |
Final rubric: |
f. 27v
iti bhāgavatadaśamaskaṁ!dhaṁ!<dhe> trayastriṁśo <'>dhyāyaḥ samāptaḥ |
Colophon: | none |
Note: | Although the title Rāsapañcādhyāyī does not appear in the manuscript, it is the proper term for the group of five chapters, adhyāyas 29-33 of the tenth skandha of the Bhāgavatapurāṇa, that deals with the love-play of Kṛṣṇa and the gopīs called the Rāsalīlā or Rāsakrīḍā. The rubric on the cover announces, ‘Now the beginning of chapters included in the tenth skandha of the Bhāgavata’, and the final rubric on the back cover reports the end of the 33rd adhyāya. Four folia, ff. 15-18 containing chapter 31 as well as the the end of the last verse of chapter 30 and the beginning of chapter 32 ((BhP. 10.30.44d–10.32.8a)), are missing. |
Language: | Sanskrit in Devanāgarī script |
Locus: | ff. 1v–9r |
Part: | Adhyāya 29 |
Incipit: |
f. 1v
bhagavān api tā rātrīḥ śāradotphullamallikāḥ .. vīkṣya raṁtuṁ manaś cakre yogamāyām upāśritaḥ ..1.. ( BhP. 10.29.1 ) |
Final rubric: |
f. 9r
iti śrībhāgavate mahāpurāṇe daśamaskaṁdhe ekonatriṁśo 'dhyāyaḥ ..29.. |
Locus: | ff. 9r–14v |
Part: | Adhyāya 30 |
Explicit: |
f. 14v
punaḥ pulinam āgatya kāliṁdyāḥ kṛṣṇabhāvanāḥ .. samavetā jaguḥ kṛṣṇaṁ ta <d-āgamana-kāṅkṣitāḥ ..44..> ( BhP. 10.30.44 ) (Anuṣṭubh) |
Locus: | ff. 19r–21r |
Part: | Adhyāya 32 |
Incipit: |
f. 19r
<taṁ> kācin netraraṁdhreṇa hṛdi kṛtya nimīlya <ca> .. pulakāṅgy upagu hyāste yogīvānaṁdasaṁplutaḥ ..8.. ( BhP. 10.32.8 ) (Anuṣṭubh) |
Final rubric: |
f. 21r
iti śrībhāgavate mahāpurāṇe daśamaskaṁdhe dvātriṁśo 'dhyāyaḥ ..29.. |
Locus: | ff. 21r–27r |
Part: | Adhyāya 33 |
Explicit: |
f. 26v–f. 27r
vikrīḍitaṁ vrajavadhūbhir idaṁ ca viṣṇoḥ śraddhānvito <'>nuśṛṇuyād atha varṇayed yaḥ .. bhaktiṁ parāṁ bhagavati pratilabhya kāmaṁ hṛdrogam āśv apahinoty acireṇa dhīraḥ..40.. (Vasantatilakā) |
Final rubric: |
f. 27r
iti śrībhāgavate mahāpuraṇe daśamaskaṁdhe trayastriṁśo 'dhyāyaḥ.... ..33.. |
Form: | Folia |
Material: | British paper with chain lines & watermark |
Watermark: | On f. 1r–f. 1v, f. 2r–f. 2v, f. 13r–f. 13v, f. 21r–f. 21v is visible a crest with water at the bottom, a shield with a cross on the right, Lady Britania on the left, and a crown with a cross on top. On f. 23r–f. 23v is legible “ GWA 1810/1840 ”. On f. 25r–f. 25v is legible “ J & J T TURKEY MILL 1810/1840 ”. |
Extent: | 23 folia |
Dimension: | 10.8 x 20.1 cm (h x w) |
Foliation: | Foliated in the upper left and lower right margins between double foreign daṇḍa s on the verso of each folio and the recto of the last folio. The numbers on the verso of the last leaf appear without foreign daṇḍa s. |
Formula: | 1–14, 19–27 |
Signatures: | bhā0 (on f. 2v), bhā0 da0 (on f. 1v, f. 7v, and f10v–27r), orbhā0 da0 pū0 (on f. 3v, f. 4v, f. 5v, f. 6v, f. 8v, f. 9v) appears above the folio number in the upper left margin (to the left of it on f. 1v and f. 2v), and a0 followed by the adhyāya number in the upper right margin on the verso of each folio 3-36 and on the recto of f. 27. rāma0 appears instead in the upper right margin on f. 1v, and rāma da0 in the upper right margin on f. 2v. |
Collation: | Single folia |
Condition: | Excellent. |
Binding: | Unbound |
Seal: | A circular stamp in the lower right of the front and back reads Library University Pennsylvania. |
Layout: | Written in 7–8 lines per page. |
Additions: |
Marginal corrections on f. 5r. |
Color: | The invocation on the front cover, the last invocation on f. 27r, and marginal corrections on f. 5r are written in red, as is either the space between double daṇḍas or the double daṇḍas themselves. It appears that the scribe included double daṇḍas in black on f. 1v–f. 2r as he wrote but ceased to do so for the rest of the manuscript, then added double daṇḍas in red but red between double daṇḍas where he had already written them in black. Mistakes are painted over with yellow, e.g. on f. 2v, f. 5v, f. 6v, f. 8v, f. 9v, f. 11v, f. 21v, f. 22v, and f. 24r. |
Border: | Quadruple vertical red lines border the text on the left and right margins. |
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: | Bhāgavatapurāṇa |
SubjectLC: | Manuscripts, Sanskrit – 18th century. |
SubjectLC: | Manuscripts – India – 18th century. |
SubjectSL: | Purāṇa. Ancient Cosmogony, Genealogy, Narrative |