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: | f. 0v-5v (incomplete) |
Author: | śrīdharasvamin |
Title: | bhāgavatabhāvārthadīpikā |
Incipit: |
f. 0v: oṃ namaḥ paramahaṃsāsvāditacaraṇacinmakaraṃdāya bhaktajanamānasanivāsāya śrīrāmāya || vāgīśā yasya vadane lakṣmīr yasya ca vakṣasi | yasyāste hṛdaye saṃvit taṃ nṛsiṃhamahaṃ bhaje ||1|| |
Explicit: |
f. 5v of skandha 12: |
Final rubric: |
F. [XII]5: caturthe tu caturdhoktā layā naimitikādayaḥ | tatra saṃsāranistāro harikīrtyaiva varṇyate 1 |
Language: | Sanskrit in Devanagari script |
Locus: | Sk I, f. 1v - Sk XII, f. 19r (complete) |
Author: | kṛṣṇa dvaipāyana vyāsa |
Title: | bhāgavatapurāṇa |
Incipit: |
Sk I, f. 1v: janmādyasya yato {'}nvayād itarataś cārtheṣv abhijñaḥ svarāṭ tene brahma hṛdā ya ādikavaye muhyaṃti yat sūrayaḥ || ... |
Colophon: |
Sk I, f. 48r: iti zrIbhAgavte mahApurANe {'}STAdazasahasyAM saMhitAyAM vaiyAsakyAM tRTIyaskaMdhe trayastriMzodhyAyaH .. .. zrImadumAzaMkarAbhyAM namaH zake 1729 bhAdrapade .. .. ca .. .. zrI .. .. zrI .. .. zrIra†?†{stu} .. .. |
Language: | Sanskrit in Devanagari script |
Form: | folia |
Material: | European paper |
Watermark: | present, but not identified |
Extent: | 490 |
Dimension: | 14.1 x 30.2 cm |
Foliation: | Numbered in the upper left margin on the verso of each folio by the original hand.
formula: I: 0-27; II: 1-15; III: 1-48; IV: 1-49; V: 1-39; VI: 1-29; VII: 1-26; VIII: 1-32; IX: 1-31; X(purvArdha): 1-68; X(uttarArdha): 1-63; XI: 1-43; XII: 1-19 |
Collation: | single folia |
Condition: | Excellent; skandha 3 is missing title page; skandha 10 fol. 1 is damaged and repaired with reinforced paper. |
Binding: | Hand carved wooden boards, a kind of hardwood of rich dark color (Shesham/Indian Rosewood?), with some carved detailing, border. |
Layout: | thirteen to fourteen lines per leaf per side except skandha 11 has fifteen lines per leaf per side. Skandha 1 f. 1v to 2r has nineteen lines each |
Hand 1: | Mistakes written over. A few marginal corrections and commentary likely in a different hand |
Additions: |
Marginal corrections and some lengthy additions. The commentary is highly abreviated and likely in a different hand.bhāvārthadīpikā, which only occurs from f. 0v to 5v of skandha 1, is possibly of a different hand and clearly added in after the mūla was originally written. |
Color: | Double daṇḍas in red. Mistakes covered over with yellow. Orange powder rubbed in over colophons, some introductions of speakers and some numbers. Commentary in skandha 12 is written in red. |
Origin: | ñośi
1807
“Sk I, f. 48r: śake 1729 bhādrapade” 1807 “Sk IV, f. 49v: śake 1729” 1807-11-07 “Sk V, f. 39v: śake 1729 kārtikaśuklasaptamyāṃ likhitaṃ śivaṃ” 1807-11-13 “Sk VI, f. 29v: śake 1729 kārtikaśuklatrayodaśyāṃ bhṛgau pūrṇaṃ” 1807 “Sk X, f. 68v: śake 1729 vaiśākha” 1807 “Sk XI, f. 43v: śake 1729 jyeṣṭhe” |
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. ” |
SubjectSL: | Purāṇa. Ancient Cosmogony, Genealogy, Narrative |
Record revised: | ???date mo.??? 2010 |
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