Manuscript Identifiers

Collection:UPenn Ms. Coll. 390
Item:2298
Repository:Rare Book & Manuscript Library
Institution:University of Pennsylvania
Location:Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Catalog:Poleman
Item:1322

Contents

Work 1

Locus:f. 1v-73r (complete)
Author:śrīdharasvāmin
Part:ad skandha 1
Incipit: f. 1r:
oṃ namaḥ śrīmatparamahaṃsāsvāditacaraṇakamalacinmakaraṃ
Explicit: f. 73r:
evam ābhāṣitaḥ pṛṣṭaḥ sa rājñā ślakṣṇayā girā ||
pratyabhāṣata dharmajño bhagavān bādarāyaṇiḥ ||40||
Final rubric: f. 73r:
Filiation:UP2300, UP2302, UP2299, UP2303, UP2304, UP2305
Language:Sanskrit in Devanagari script

Work 2

Locus:f. 1r-73r (complete)
Author:kṛṣṇa dvaipāyana vyāsa
Title:bhāgavatapurāṇa
Part:skandha 1
Incipit: f. 1v:
janmādyasya yato'nvayādi tarataścārtheṣvabhijaḥ ...
Final rubric: f. 73r:
iti śrībhāgavate mahāpurāṇe paramahṃsyāṃ saṃhitāyāṃ prathamaskaṃdhe sukāgamanaṃ nāma ekonaviṃśo 'dhyāyaḥ || ||19|| || ca ||
Filiation:UP2250, UP2251, UP2253, UP2254
Language:Sanskrit in Devanagari script

Physical description

Form:folia
Material:country paper
Extent:73
Dimension:17 x 40 cm
Collation:single folia
Condition:Good-excellent
Layout:Eleven to fifteen lines per leaf.

Decoration

Color:Mistakes covered over with Yellow, crossed through with Black, written over, or indicated by short vertical strokes above the syllable in question.

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. ”

Subject headings

SubjectSL:Purāṇa. Ancient Cosmogony, Genealogy, Narrative

Facsimile

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Transcription

f. 1r:
Commentary:
iti śrībhāgavatabhāvārthadīpikāyāṃ śrīdharasvāmiviracitāyāṃ prathamaskaṃdhe eko na viṃ śatitamo 'dhyāyaḥ|| || śrīgaṇeśāyanamaḥ || oṃ namaḥ śrīmatparamahaṃsāsvāditacaraṇakamalacinmakaraṃ ... mū:
f. 1v:
śrīgaṇeśāyanamaḥ || || janmādyasya yato'nvayādi tarataścārtheṣvabhijaḥ ...
f. 73r:
Commentary:
... evam ābhāṣitaḥ pṛṣṭaḥ sa rājñā ślakṣṇayā girā ||
pratyabhāṣata dharmajño bhagavān bādarāyaṇiḥ ||40|| mū:
iti śrībhāgavate mahāpurāṇe paramahṃsyāṃ saṃhitāyāṃ prathamaskaṃdhe sukāgamanaṃ nāma ekonaviṃśo 'dhyāyaḥ || ||19|| || ca ||
Record revised:???date mo.??? 2010