Manuscript Identifiers

Collection:UPenn Ms. Coll. 390
Item:2352
Repository:Rare Book & Manuscript Library
Institution:University of Pennsylvania
Location:Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Catalog:Poleman
Item:1359

Contents

Work 1

Locus:ff. 1r-13v (complete)
Author:śrīdharasvāmin fl. 1350-1450
Title:bhāgavatabhāvārthadīpikā
Part:ad ṣkandha 10, ādhyāya 87 {and end of ādhyāya 86 - bf}
Cover rubric: Note: (Fleming) No title folio, jumps right into prose section of commentary.
Incipit: f. 1r:
saptāśītitame nārāyaṇanāradavādataḥ ||
vedai stutir guṇālaṃbā nirguṇāvadhi varṇyate ||1|| oṃ nnamo bhagavte vāsudevāya || vāgīśā yasya vadane lakṣmīr yasya ca vakṣasi ||
yasyāste hṛdaye saṃvit taṃ nṛsiṃham ahaṃ bhaje ||2|| ...
Final rubric: F. 13V:
iti śrībhāgavate mahāpurāṇe daśamaskaṃdhe saptāśītittamodhyāyaḥ || śrīkṛṣṇārpaṇamastu | śrīrāmajayarāmajayajayarāma || ca || śrīrāmajayarāmajayajayarāma || ca || śrīrāmajayarāma ||
Language:Sanskrit in Devanagari script

Work 2

Locus:ff. 1r-13v (complete)
Author:kṛṣṇa dvaipāyana vyāsa
Title:bhāgavatapurāṇa
Part:śkandha 10, ādhyāya 87 {and end oṛ ādhyāya 86 - bṛ}
Incipit: f. 1r:
karikṣid uvāca brahman brahmaṇy ...
(BhP. 10.87.1)
Explicit: f. 13v:
... abhayaṃ dhyāyed ajasraṃ hariṃ ||50||
(BhP. 10.87.50)
Final rubric: itiśrībhāgavate mahāpurāṇe daśamaskaṃde saptāśītitamo dhyāyaḥ ||87|| śrīkṛṣṇārpaṇam astu || ca || ca ||
Language:Sanskrit in Devanagari script

Physical description

Form:folia
Material:paper
Watermark:Watermarks - a large crown and some text (e.g., "BRI"), likely the same as previous ms, although the paper is here cut in the opposite direction
Extent:14
Dimension:10.5 x 30.9 cm
Foliation: formula: 1-14
Collation:double folios, numbered only at the back of the last leaf, hence: 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12, 14
Condition:excellent
Layout:

Commentary runs above and below the mUla

Hands

Additions:

Mistakes written over, crossed through or blotched out with Black.

Decoration

Color:???

History

Origin:"not given" "not given"
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:Bhāgavatapurāṇa
SubjectLC:Manuscripts, Sanskrit -- 18th century.
SubjectLC:Manuscripts -- India -- 18th century.
SubjectSL:Purāṇa. Ancient Cosmogony, Genealogy, Narrative

Facsimile

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Transcription

f. 1r:
Commentary:
saptāśītitame nārāyaṇanāradavādataḥ ||
vedai stutir guṇālaṃbā nirguṇāvadhi varṇyate ||1|| oṃ nnamo bhagavte vāsudevāya || vāgīśā yasya vadane lakṣmīr yasya ca vakṣasi ||
yasyāste hṛdaye saṃvit taṃ nṛsiṃham ahaṃ bhaje ||2|| ...
karikṣid uvāca brahman brahmaṇy ...
(BhP. 10.87.1)
f. 13v:
Commentary:
iti śrībhāgavate mahāpurāṇe daśamaskaṃdhe saptāśītittamodhyāyaḥ || śrīkṛṣṇārpaṇamastu | śrīrāmajayarāmajayajayarāma || ca || śrīrāmajayarāmajayajayarāma || ca || śrīrāmajayarāma ||
... abhayaṃ dhyāyed ajasraṃ hariṃ ||50||
(BhP. 10.87.50) itiśrībhāgavate mahāpurāṇe daśamaskaṃde saptāśītitamo dhyāyaḥ ||87|| śrīkṛṣṇārpaṇam astu || ca || ca ||
Record revised:???date mo.??? 2010