Manuscript Identifiers

Collection:UPenn Ms. Coll. 390
Item:2279
Repository:Rare Book & Manuscript Library
Institution:University of Pennsylvania
Location:Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Catalog:Poleman
Item:920

Contents

Work 1

Locus:f. 1-22 (complete)
Author:vāsudeva
Title:itihāsasamuccaya
Part:satyanārāyaṇavratakathā
Cover rubric: f. 1r:
atha satyanārāṇavratakathā likhyate ||
Incipit: f. 1r:
tatrādau ( kṛtanityatriyaḥ sāyaṃ kāle vrātyaṇair amātyaiḥ parivṛto yathā śakty upacāreṇa satyanārāyaṇaṃ pūjayet ||
Note: (Fleming) Does not appear in the Mbh or the Starred passages
Final rubric: f. 22v:
iti śrī itihāsasamuccaye satyanārāyaṇavratakathā samāptā caturthodhyāyaḥ ||4||
Colophon: f. 22v:
śake 1774 || raktakṣīnāmasaṃ vatsare || dakṣiṇāyane || vaṣā ṛtau || adhikabhādrapade māsi kṛṣṇapakṣe aṣṭabhyāṃ tithau || bhaumavāsare tadinasamāpto yaṃ graṃthaḥ || idaṃ pustakaṃ vajhe ity upanāmakabālakṛṣṇātmajñavāsude{ve}na likhitāṃ | hairśarmaṇaḥ bhāgvatta ity upanāmakasyedaṃ || || saṃvat 1909 || kālabhairavavrattīsaṃkrā{ṃ}tau pūrṇamāsyāṃ caikādaśyāṃyasmin kasmin dine sāyaṃ kākāle pūjā | atramūlaṃ ciṃtyaṃ || ihedānīṃ gār{g}yagotrotpannasya vināyakarāvaśarmaṇo mama manorathasidhyarthaṃ prārthitaṃ śrīsatyanārāyaṇapūjanapūrvakatatkathā śravaṇātmakavrataṃ kariṣye || yajamānānujayāsasanārāyaṇapūjanam ahaṃ kariṣye || mūlamaṃtraḥ || oṃ satyanārāyaṇāya namaḥ || aṣṭottaraśataṃ japtā || kathāṃ śṛṇuyāt || slo*saṃ*216 ||ca||
Language:Sanskrit in Devanagari script

Physical description

Form:folia
Material:country paper
Extent:23
Dimension:15.5 x 23.5 cm
Foliation: formula: 1-23
Collation:single folia

Hands

Additions:

There is some marginal notation throughout.

Decoration

Color:Orange and brown powders, mixed, giving theimpression of pink, rubbed in over invocation, introduction ofspeakers, dates, colophons and part of final colophon.daṇḍas. Mistakes covered over with yellow.

History

Origin:vAsudeva, son of bAlakRSNa saMvat 1909, zaka 1774 [=1852]
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:Itihāsa. Narrative, Epic, History

Facsimile

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Transcription

f. 1r:
śrīgṇeśāya namaḥ || atha satyanārāṇavratakathā likhyate || tatrādau ( kṛtanityatriyaḥ sāyaṃ kāle vrātyaṇair amātyaiḥ parivṛto yathā śakty upacāreṇa satyanārāyaṇaṃ pūjayet || ...
f. 22v:
... iti śrī itihāsasamuccaye satyanārāyaṇavratakathā samāptā caturthodhyāyaḥ ||4|| śubhaṃ bavatu || śrīrāmacaṃdraprasanno {'}stu || śake 1774 || raktakṣīnāmasaṃ vatsare || dakṣiṇāyane || vaṣā ṛtau || adhikabhādrapade māsi kṛṣṇapakṣe aṣṭabhyāṃ tithau || bhaumavāsare tadinasamāpto yaṃ graṃthaḥ || idaṃ pustakaṃ vajhe ity upanāmakabālakṛṣṇātmajñavāsude{ve}na likhitāṃ | hairśarmaṇaḥ bhāgvatta ity upanāmakasyedaṃ || || saṃvat 1909 || kālabhairavavrattīsaṃkrā{ṃ}tau pūrṇamāsyāṃ caikādaśyāṃyasmin kasmin dine sāyaṃ kākāle pūjā | atramūlaṃ ciṃtyaṃ || ihedānīṃ gār{g}yagotrotpannasya vināyakarāvaśarmaṇo mama manorathasidhyarthaṃ prārthitaṃ śrīsatyanārāyaṇapūjanapūrvakatatkathā śravaṇātmakavrataṃ kariṣye || yajamānānujayāsasanārāyaṇapūjanam ahaṃ kariṣye || mūlamaṃtraḥ || oṃ satyanārāyaṇāya namaḥ || aṣṭottaraśataṃ japtā || kathāṃ śṛṇuyāt || slo*saṃ*216 ||ca||
Record revised:???date mo.??? 2010