Collection: | UPenn Ms. Coll. 390 |
Item: | 2259 |
Repository: | Rare Book & Manuscript Library |
Institution: | University of Pennsylvania |
Location: | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America |
Catalog: | Poleman |
Item: | 1308 |
Locus: | ff. I:[0]r–XII:19v (complete) |
Author: | Kṛṣṇa Dvaipāyana Vyāsa |
Title: | Bhāgavatapurāṇa |
Colophon: | None |
Language: | Sanskrit in Devanāgarī script |
Locus: | ff. I:[0]r–I:27v (complete) |
Part: | Skandha 1 |
Final rubric: |
f. I:27r: .. iti bhāgavate prathamaskaṁdhe ekonaviṁśo <'> dhyāyaḥ .. |
Colophon: | None |
Locus: | ff. II:1r–II:15v (complete) |
Part: | Skandha 2 |
Final rubric: |
f. II:15r: .. iti śrībhāgavate mahāpurā ṇe <'> ṣṭādaśasahasryāṁ saṁhitāyāṁ vaiyāsikyāṁ tṛtīyaskaṁdhe daśamo <'> dhyāyaḥ .. |
Colophon: | None |
Locus: | ff. III:1r–III:48v (complete) |
Part: | Skandha 3 |
Final rubric: |
f. III:48r: .. iti śrībhāgavate mahā purāṇe <'> ṣṭādaśasahasryāṁ saṁhitāyāṁ vaiyās!a!<i>kyāṁ tṛtīyaskaṁdhe trayastriṁśo <'> dhyāyaḥ .. |
Colophon: |
f. III:48r: śake 1729 bhādrapade .. |
Locus: | ff. IV:1r–IV:49v (complete) |
Part: | Skandha 4 |
Final rubric: |
f. IV:49v: .. iti śrībhāgavate caturthaskaṁdhe ekatriṁśo <'> dhyāyaḥ .. |
Colophon: |
f. IV:49v: śake 1729 .. |
Locus: | ff. V:1r–V:39v (complete) |
Part: | Skandha 5 |
Final rubric: |
f. V:39r: .. iti bhāgavate mahāpurāṇe paṁcama skaṁdhe ṣaḍviṁśo <'> dhyāyaḥ .. |
Colophon: |
f. V:39r: śake 1729 kārtikaśuklasaptamyāṁ likhitaṁ śivaṁ |
Locus: | ff. VI:1r–VI:29v (complete) |
Part: | Skandha 6 |
Final rubric: |
f. VI:29r: .. iti bhāgavate mahāpurāṇe ṣaṣṭhaskaṁdhe ekonaviṁśo <'> dhyāyaḥ .. |
Colophon: |
f. VI:29r: .. .. śake 1729 kārtikaśuklatrayodaśyāṁ bhṛgau pūrṇaṁ .. |
Locus: | ff. VII:1r–VII:26v (complete) |
Part: | Skandha 7 |
Final rubric: |
f. VII:26v: .. iti śrībhāgavate mahāpurāṇe saptamaskaṁdhe yudhiṣṭhiranāradasaṁvāde paṁcadaśo <'> dhyāyaḥ .. |
Colophon: |
f. VII:26v: śake 1729 śrāvaṇe .. |
Locus: | ff. VIII:1r–VIII:32v (complete) |
Part: | Skandha 8 |
Final rubric: |
f. VIII:32r: .. iti śrībhāgavate mahāpurāṇe <'> ṣṭamaskaṁdhe catirviṁśo <'> dhyāyaḥ .. |
Colophon: | None |
Locus: | ff. IX:1r–IX:31v (complete) |
Part: | Skandha 9 |
Final rubric: |
f. IX:31r: .. iti bhāgavate navamaskaṁdhe caturviṁśo <'> dhyāyaḥ .. |
Colophon: |
f. IX:31r: śake 1729 śrāvaṇe 3 |
Locus: | ff. Xa:1r–Xa:68v (complete) |
Part: | skandha 10 pūrvārdha |
Final rubric: |
f. Xa:68v: .. iti śrībhāgavate mahāpurāṇe daśamaskaṁdhe ekonapaṁcāśatamo <'> dhyāyaḥ .. |
Colophon: |
f. Xa:68v: śake 1729 vaiśākha |
Locus: | ff. Xb:1r–Xb:63v (complete) |
Part: | Skandha 10 uttarārdha |
Final rubric: |
f. Xb:63r: .. iti śrībhāgavate mahāpurāṇe daśamaskaṁdhe navatitamo <'> dhyāyaḥ .. |
Colophon: | None |
Locus: | ff. XI:1r–XI:43v (complete) |
Part: | Skandha 11 |
Final rubric: |
f. XI:43r: .. iti bhāgavate ekādaśe ekatriṁśo <'> dhyāyaḥ .. |
Colophon: |
f. XI:43r: śake 1729 jyeṣṭhe .. |
Locus: | ff. XII:1r–XII:19v (complete) |
Part: | Skandha 12 |
Incipit: |
f. I:1v: janmādy asya yato <'> nvayād itarataś cārtheṣv abhijñaḥ svarāṭ tene brahma hṛdā ya ādikavaye muhyaṁti yat sūra yaḥ .. tejovārimṛdāṁ yathā vinimayo yatra trisargo <'> mṛṣā dhāmnā svena sadā nirastakuhakaṁ satyaṁ paraṁ dhīmahi ..1.. Note: BhP. 1.1.1 |
Explicit: |
f. XII:19r: nāmasaṅkīrtanaṁ yasya sarvapāpa praṇāśanaṁ .. praṇāmo duḥkhaśamanas taṁ namāmi hariṁ paraṁ ..23.. Note: BhP. 12.13.23 |
Final rubric: |
f. XII:19r: .. iti śrimadbhāgavate mahāpurāṇe dvādaśaskaṁdhe trayodaśo <'> dhyāyaḥ .. |
Colophon: |
f. XII:19v: colophon : dvādaśa ..12.. samāptaṁ .. patrāṇi 19 .. godātaṭe nāsikabhū sujanmā śāṁḍilyagotraḥ khalu nāma jośī .. .. nārāyaṇaḥ śaṁkarasaṁbhavo yas tasyāsty adaḥ pustakam uttamaṁ vai ..1.. a13 |
Locus: | ff. I:[0]v–I:5v; ff. XII:1v–XII:5v (incomplete) |
Author: | Śrīdharasvāmin |
Title: | Bhāgavatabhāvārthadīpikā |
Final rubric: | none |
Colophon: | none |
Note: | Śrīdharasvāmin's commentary, present ad BhP. 1.1.1–1.5.10 on fI:1v-fI:5v, and BhP. 12.1.1–12.4.1 on f. XII:1v–f. XII:3v, is an addition to the manuscript written by a different hand. |
Language: | Sanskrit in Devanāgarī script |
Locus: | ff. I:[0]v–I:5v (incomplete) |
Incipit: |
f. I:[0]r: vāgīśā yasya vadane lakṣmīr yasya ca vakṣasi . yasyāste hṛdaye saṁvit taṁ nṛsiṁham ahaṁ bhaje ..1.. Note: Kṛṣṇaśaṅkara Śāstrin 1965 vol. 1, p. 1, ad 1.1.1 |
Explicit: |
f. I:5v:
ca śabdād dharmādisādhanāni ca tathā dharmādivat prādhānyena 9
aśikkamanīyaṁ brahma kṣayo nivāso yeṣāṁ te 10
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Colophon: | None |
Locus: | ff. XII:1v–XII:5v (incomplete) |
Incipit: |
f. XII:1v: jayaṁti śrīparānaṁdakṛpāpāṁgalasaddṛśaḥ yā nityam anuvartaṁte saṁpado vinatādṛśaḥ 1 Note: Kṛṣṇaśaṅkara Śāstrin 1965 vol. 12, p. 2, ad 12.1.1 |
Explicit: |
f. XII:5v: caturthe tu caturdhoktā layā naimitikādayaḥ . tatra saṁsāranistāro harikīrtyaiva varṇyate 1 Note: Kṛṣṇaśaṅkara Śāstrin 1965 vol. 12, p. 75, ad 12.4.1 |
Colophon: | None |
Form: | Folia |
Material: | European paper. |
Watermark: | Present but not identified. |
Extent: | 490 |
Dimension: | 14.1 x 30.2 cm |
Collation: | single folios. |
Condition: | Excellent; f. Xa: 1 is damaged and repaired with reinforced paper. |
Binding: | Bound between hand-carved Indian Rosewood (Sheesham) boards with some carved border detail. Dimensions: height 13.8cm, width 30.5cm. |
Layout: | Written in thirteen to fourteen lines per page except skandha 11, which has fifteen lines per page. Folios containing the commentary in the first skandha, i.e. fI:1v-fI:2r have nineteen lines each. The commentary is written above and below the base text on fI:1v-fI:5v and fXII:1v-fXII:5v. |
Hand 1: | Śrīdharasvāmin's commentary is written in a different hand. The same hand has added small red akṣaras over the main text between BhP. 12.11.33–44 on f. XII:15v–XII:16r. |
Hand 2: | Mistakes are written over. There are a few marginal corrections. |
Additions: |
The commentary is a subsequent addition. There are marginal corrections and some lengthy additions. The following major corrections and additions are made to the base text:
BhP. 1.12.35–36 in the top margin on f. I:16v,
BhP. 1.17.14cd in the bottom margin on f. I:23r,
BhP. 3.16.30 in the top margin on f. III:23v,
BhP. 5.5.15 in the top margin on f. V:8r,
BhP. 5.11.8 in the top margin on f. V:16r,
BhP. 5.13.12 written over long yellowed out text on f. V:17v,
BhP. 5.17.9 in the bottom margin on f. V:23v,
verse 26cd corresponding to BhP. 6.8.27cd in the bottom margin on f. VI:13r,
verse 27 corresponding to BhP. 6.14.28 in the top margin on f. VI:20v,
BhP. 8.20.29 in the top margin on f. VIII:26v,
a line of verse to be inserted between 34ab and 34cd corresponding to BhP. 8.21.33cd in the bottom margin on f. VIII:27v,
BhP. 9.16.1 in the top margin on f. IX:20r in a different hand,
two jagatī pādas
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On the front of the first folio of the first skandha (f. [0]r), there is an addition in grey of an anuzwuB verse concerning the transfer of ownership (see provenance below). Because the addition obscures the original indication of the number of aDyAyas in the skanDa, the same hand has added a clarification above the verse. |
Color: | Double daṇḍas the original verses attributing ownership on the first and last pages of each skandha, and the extracts from the commentary in the twelfth skandha are written in red. Mistakes are covered over with yellow. Orange powder is rubbed in over final rubrics, introductions of speakers and numbers. |
Border: | Vertical double red lines rule the left and right margins of the text on each page. |
Origin: |
The manuscript was written over a period of six months between the month of vaiśākha and the month of kārttika in the year 1729 of the śaka era, which corresponds with May–November 1807 A.D.. The colophon verses at the beginning and end of each skandha, e.g. the first on f. I:0r: The seven skandhas that provide information concerning the month and date of completion were written in the following order: 10, 11, 9, 7, 3, 5, 6. The colophon of the first half of the tenth skanDa places the date of its completion in the month of vaiśākha, which corresponds with 8 May–6 June 1807 A.D. The colophon of the eleventh skanDa places the date of its completion in the month of jyeṣṭha, which corresponds with 7 June–5 July. The colophons of the ninth and seventh skandhas place the date of their completion in the month of śrāvaṇa, which corresponds with 4 August–2 September. If the ninth was completed on the 3rd tithi of the bright fortnight, its date of completion corresponds with 6 August. The colophon of the third skanDa places the date of its completion in the month of bhādrapada, which corresponds with 3 September–2 October. The colophons of the fifth and sixth skandhas place the dates of their completion on the seventh and thirteenth tithis in the bright fortnight in the month of kārttika, which correspond with 7 November and 13 November respectively. |
Provenance: |
An anuzwuB verse added by the second hand in grey on the front of each skandha (f. I:[0]r, f. II:1r, f. III:1r, f. IV:1r, f. V:1r, f. VI:1r, f. VII:1r, f. VII:81r, f. IX:1r, f. Xa:1r, f. Xb:1r, f. XI:1r, and f. XII:1r: |
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. |
SubjectLC: | Manuscripts, Sanskrit – 19th century. |
SubjectLC: | Manuscripts – India – 19th century. |
SubjectSL: | Purāṇa. Ancient Cosmogony, Genealogy, Narrative |
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śrīgaṇeśāyanamaḥ ..
janmādy asya yato <'> nvayād itarataś cārtheṣv abhijñaḥ svarāṭ tene brahma hṛdā ya ādikavaye muhyaṁti yat sūradvādaśa ..12.. samāptaṁ .. patrāṇi 19
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Commentary:ca śabdād dharmādisādhanāni ca tathā dharmādivat prādhānyena 9 aśikkamanīyaṁ brahma kṣayo nivāso yeṣāṁ te 10
adhyāyāḥ
patrāṇi 27
Record revised: | 20 April 2012 |
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