Manuscript Identifiers

Collection:Indic Manuscripts
Item:47
Repository:John Hay Library
Institution:Brown University
Location:Providence, Rhode Island, United States of America
Catalog:Poleman
Item:1303

Contents

Work 1

Locus:f. ?-? (incomplete)
Author:kṛṣṇa dvaipāyana vyāsa
Title:bhāgavatapurāṅa
Part:skandha 10
Incipit: f. 1r, lines 1-2:
śrīhayagrīvāyanamaḥ || śrīkaṃṭhacāpakhaṃḍḍana | pākāripramukhavinutabhaṃḍḍanavilasa | tkākusthavaṃśśamaṃḍḍana | rākeṃdduyaśoviśālarāma
nṛpālā ||
Note: First verse of the daśamaskaṃdhamu of the Potanna Bhagavatamu.
Explicit: f. 121v, lines 6-7:
yiṭlurukmiṇīdevivihariṃppumaṃḍḍalopala
Note: Remaining cut off due to broken folio
vi[V]arivalanavinikṛṣṇuṃḍudevakīvasudevuluṃdoḍ? unicanudeṃccisarvajñaṃḍḍayyununemiyuvivariṃppakayūrakuṃḍḍenaṃttanāraduṃḍḍucanudeṃcciśaṃbbaruṃḍḍukumāruniggonipoyinadi
Note: This is not the end of the text. The final folios of this skandha appear to be missing.
Language:Telugu in Telugu script

Physical description

Form:folia
Material:palm leaf
Extent:170
Dimension:3.8 x 43.5 cm
Foliation: formula: [i-xiv], 1-22, [xv-xxiv], 23-31, [xxvi], 32-121, [xxvii-xxix]
Condition:

Fair condition; browned leaves; fraying at the edges; many cracked and split leaves that interfere with legibility; many worm holes that damage structural integrity and create lacunae; Some folios have considerable fading. One folio fragment broken off and kept in separate sleeve.

Left end broken ; damaged and faded folio 39

Center broken and damaged folio 46

Center broken and damaged folio 47

Left margin broken off; folio number illegible folio 51

Top mid left edge broken; some illegible text folio 67

Left binding hole broken out causing loss of text folio 95

Right edge of folio broken with some loss of text: folio 120 & 121

Piece of right edge of folio broken off and kept in separate sleeve folio 120

Binding: Wooden covers with tying cord and a metal peg through lateral holes
Condition: good.

Hands

Additions:

Occassional “śrī” in margin

Center note “śrīrāmulumādaivamuśrīrāmulumāku” folio [xv]r

Note in left margin: “śrīrāma” “mu” “karayu” folio [xv]r

Note in left margin: “śubhamastu” “avighnamastu” “daśamaskaṃdhaṃ” folio 1r

Note in left margin “śrīrāma” folio 86r

Decoration

Illustration:??flowers in some left margins??

History

Acquisition: (Stuart C. Sherman (1977: 79)) describes the acquisition of the Indic manuscripts in the Brown University Library as follows:

Indic Manuscripts

A collection of fifty-three codices (not after 1800) in Burmese, Cambodian, Telugu Skandhas, Bengali, and Sinhalese script on palm leaves with lacquered wood covers tied with cords. Subjects include Buddhist canon, Pālī grammar and lexicons, Epics, Dance, Drama, and a treatise on midwifery and diseases of women. Recorded in ( A Census of Indic Manuscripts in the United States and Canada, by Horace I. Poleman, New Haven: American Oriental Society, 1938. ) Register available.

Gift of Baptist missionaries to Burma, among whom was Adoniram Judson Brown Class of 1807, who first translated the Bible into Burmese.

Subject headings

SubjectLC:Manuscripts, Telugu
SubjectSL:Purāṇa. Ancient Cosmogony, Genealogy, Narrative

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Record revised:25 December 2009