Manuscript Identifiers

Collection:UPenn Ms. Coll. 390
Item:2815
Repository:Rare Book & Manuscript Library
Institution:University of Pennsylvania
Location:Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Catalog:Poleman
Item:1387

Contents

Work 1 (complete)

Locus:ff. 1r–5v
Author:Rāmāśrama
Title:Durjanamukhacapeṭikā
Cover rubric: f. 1r
śrīḥ
śrīmatgaṇeśagīrgurubhyo namaḥ
Incipit: f. 1v
ballavīvallabhaṁ natvā bruve vidvadviniścayaṁ
bhāgavatābhidhe graṁthe ārṣānārṣatvasaṁśaye 1 (Anuṣṭubh)
bhāgavatam anārtham iti vadaṁtaḥ praṣṭavyāḥ katham anārṣatvam iti graṁthe vyāsanāmadarśanāt
yo hi graṁthaṁ kṛtvā'nyasya nāma likhati sa hi prītyā yathā vidyāraṇyair vedabhāṣye mādhavanāma
dhanādilobhād vā yathā bopadevena rumādrer nāma
atra ca vyāsanamalekhane graṁthakartuḥ kiṁ khāraṇaṁ
nāpi dhanādilābho nāpi prītyatiśayaḥ
<...>
Explicit: f. 5rf. 5v
vāgbhaṭṭasaṁgṛhītavaidyakasyāpi carakādyavirodhāt prāmāṇyaṁ
nanu smṛtīnāṁ ṛṣipraṇa[ā]tatve sati vedāviruddhakārtha(ka)tvena prāmāṇyam iti cen na lāghavena vedaviruddhakārthakatvena tatprāmāṇyasyocitatvāt
Final rubric: f. 5v
iti śrī rāmāśramaviracitā durjanamukhacapeṭikā samāptā
Colophon:none
Note:The text is different from the text by the same name by {k}AzInATaBawwa. Defense of the authority of the Bhāgavatapurāṇa.
Language:Sanskrit in Devanāgarī script

Physical description

Form:Folia
Material:Paper
Extent:5 folia
Dimension:11.8 x 27.8 cm (h x w)
Foliation: Foliated in the upper left margin and lower right margin on the verso of each folio.
   Formula:1–5
   Signatures:bhā0 du0 appears above the folio number in the upper left margin on the verso of each folio.
Condition:Excellent
Binding: Unbound
Layout:Written in 9–10 lines per page.

Hands

Additions:

Mistakes covered over with yellow or written over. Marginal corrections.

Decoration

Color:Yellow is used to cover mistakes.

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

Record history

Revised: 27 November 2012

Facsimile  (work )

Whole image     Individual pages
f. 1r     f. 1r  
f. 1v, f. 2r     f. 1v  f. 2r  
f. 2v, f. 3r     f. 2v  f. 3r  
f. 3v, f. 4r     f. 3v  f. 4r  
f. 4v, f. 5r     f. 4v  f. 5r  
f. 5v     f. 5v  


Transcription (text structure)


śrīḥ
śrīmatgaṇeśagīrgurubhyo namaḥ
śrīgaṇeśāyanamaḥ
ballavīvallabhaṁ natvā bruve vidvadviniścayaṁ
bhāgavatābhidhe graṁthe ārṣānārṣatvasaṁśaye 1 (Anuṣṭubh)
bhāgavatam anārtham iti vadaṁtaḥ praṣṭavyāḥ katham anārṣatvam iti graṁthe vyāsanāmadarśanāt
yo hi graṁthaṁ kṛtvā'nyasya nāma likhati sa hi prītyā yathā vidyāraṇyair vedabhāṣye mādhavanāma
dhanādilobhād vā yathā bopadevena rumādrer nāma
atra ca vyāsanamalekhane graṁthakartuḥ kiṁ khāraṇaṁ
nāpi dhanādilābho nāpi prītyatiśayaḥ
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vāgbhaṭṭasaṁgṛhītavaidyakasyāpi carakādyavirodhāt prāmāṇyaṁ
nanu smṛtīnāṁ ṛṣipraṇa[ā]tatve sati vedāviruddhakārtha(ka)tvena prāmāṇyam iti cen na lāghavena vedaviruddhakārthakatvena tatprāmāṇyasyocitatvāt
iti śrī rāmāśramaviracitā durjanamukhacapeṭikā samāptā
śrīkṛṣṇārpam astu