Manuscript Identifiers

Collection:UPenn Ms. Coll. 390
Item:2396
Repository:Rare Book & Manuscript Library
Institution:University of Pennsylvania
Location:Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Catalog:Poleman
Item:1312

Contents

Work 1

Locus:ff. 1r–4v (complete)
Author:Kṛṣṇa Dvaipāyana Vyāsa
Title:Bhāgavatapurāṇa
Part:adhyāya 1
Incipit: f. 1r:
rājovāca ..
kathito vaṁśavistāro bhavatā somasūryayoḥ ..

jñāṁ cobhayavaṁśyānāṁ caritaṁ !ma!<pa>ramādbhutaṁ ..1..
Note:
BhP. 10.1.1
Explicit: f. 4v:

ugrasenaṁ ca pitaraṁ yadubhojāṁdhakā
dhipam .
svayaṁ nigṛhya bubhuje śūrasenān mahābalaḥ ..70..
Note:
BhP. 10.1.69
Final rubric: f. 4v:
iti śrībhā[va]gavate mahā
purāṇe daśama!sva!<skaṁ>dhe kṛṣṇāvatāro nāmaprathamo dhyāyaḥ ..1..
Colophon:none
Language:Sanskrit in Devanāgarī script

Physical description

Form:Folia
Material:Country paper.
Extent:4
Dimension:10.7 x 24.2 cm
Collation: Single folios.
Condition:Excellent.
Binding: Unbound.
Layout:Nine to ten lines per page. Folio 1 contains ten lines per page. Folios 2–4 contain nine lines per page.

Hands

Hand 1:Written in clear, bold, somewhat sloppy regular characters, most of which are tilted slightly forward though a few are tilted leftward, in straight lines.
Additions:

Mistakes are scribbled over. Deletions are indicated by short vertical strokes through the headbar. There are a few marginal corrections.

History

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. ”

Subject headings

SubjectLC:Bhāgavatapurāṇa
SubjectLC:Manuscripts, Sanskrit – 19th century.
SubjectLC:Manuscripts – India – 19th century.
SubjectSL:Purāṇa. Ancient Cosmogony, Genealogy, Narrative

Facsimile

Whole imageIndividual pages
f. 1rf. 1r  
f. 1v,f. 2rf. 1v  f. 2r  
f. 2v,f. 3rf. 2v  f. 3r  
f. 3v,f. 4rf. 3v  f. 4r  
f. 4vf. 4v  


Transcription (Manuscript Layout)

aDyAya 1:
f.1r
Line 1: śrīgaṇeśāya namaḥ .. śrīkṛṣṇaparamātmane namaḥ .. rājovāca .. kathito vaṁśavistāro bhavatā somasūryayoḥ .. rā
Line 2: jñāṁ cobhayavaṁśyānāṁ caritaṁ !ma!<pa>ramādbhutaṁ ..1.. [
f.4v
Line 7: [ ugrasenaṁ ca pitaraṁ yadubhojāṁdhakā
Line 8: dhipam . svayaṁ nigṛhya bubhuje śūrasenān mahābalaḥ ..70..
iti śrībhā[va]gavate mahā
Line 9: purāṇe daśama!sva!<skaṁ>dhe kṛṣṇāvatāro nāmaprathamo dhyāyaḥ ..1.. rāma kṛṣṇa .. cha ..
Record revised:14 April 2012