Manuscript Identifiers

Collection:UPenn Ms. Coll. 390
Item:1367
Repository:Rare Book & Manuscript Library
Institution:University of Pennsylvania
Location:Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Catalog:Poleman
Item:2469

Contents

Work 1

Locus:ff. 1r–2v (complete)
Author:Kṛṣṇa Dvaipāyana Vyāsa
Title:Kṛṣṇaniryāṇa
Part:adhyāya 31
Incipit: f. 1r:

atha tatrāgamad brahmā bhavānyā
ca samaṁ bhavaḥ ..
maheṁdrapramukhā devā munayaḥ saprajeśva
rāḥ ..1..
Note:
BhP. 11.31.1
Explicit: f2r-f2v:

ya etāṁ prātar utthāya kṛṣṇasya pa
davīṁ parām ..
prayataḥ kīrtayed bhaktyā tām evāpnoty a
nuttamām ..14..
Note:
BhP. 11.31.14
Final rubric: f.2v:
iti śrī madbhāgavate ekādaśa
skaṁ!de!<dhe> kṛṣṇaniryāṇaṁ samāptaṁ ..
Colophon:none
Language:Sanskrit in Devanāgarī script

Physical description

Form:Folia
Material:Paper.
Extent:2
Dimension:9.5 x 14.8 cm
Collation: Two folios paired in one sheet of paper.
Formula:1–2
Condition:Excellent.
Binding: Unbound.
Layout:Written in ten lines per page.

Hands

Hand 1:Written in bold, irregular characters, some of which are tilted slightly forward, in straight lines with irregular margins.
Hand 2:The title mentioned in the final rubric is added in the top margin on f. 1r in a different hand.
Additions:

There are a few marginal corrections. Mistakes are covered over with yellow and corrected in place.

Decoration

Color:Mistakes are covered over with yellow.

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. 1r,f. 1vf. 1r  f. 1v  
f. 2r,f. 2vf. 2r  f. 2v  


Transcription (Manuscript Layout)

f.1r
Line 1: śrīgaṇeśāya namaḥ .. .. atha tatrāgamad brahmā bhavānyā
Line 2: ca samaṁ bhavaḥ .. maheṁdrapramukhā devā munayaḥ saprajeśva
Line 3: rāḥ ..1.. [
f.2r
Line 10: ya etāṁ prātar utthāya kṛṣṇasya pa
f.2v
Line 1: davīṁ parām .. prayataḥ kīrtayed bhaktyā tām evāpnoty a
Line 2: nuttamām ..14..
iti śrī madbhāgavate ekādaśa
Line 3: skaṁ!de!<dhe> kṛṣṇaniryāṇaṁ samāptaṁ .. ..
Record revised:15 April 2012