Collection: | UPenn Ms. Coll. 390 |
Item: | 2302 |
Repository: | Rare Book & Manuscript Library |
Institution: | University of Pennsylvania |
Location: | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America |
Catalog: | Poleman |
Item: | 1326 |
Locus: | ff. 1r–63v (complete) |
Author: | Kṛṣṇa Dvaipāyana Vyāsa |
Title: | Bhāgavatapurāṇa |
Part: | skandha 6 |
Incipit: |
f. 2r: .. rājovāca .. .. nivṛttimārgaḥ kathitaḥ ādau bhagavatā yathā .. kramayogopala!bddhe!<bdhe> na brahmaṇā yadasaṁsṛtiḥ .. ..1.. Note: BhP. 6.1.1 |
Explicit: |
f. 63r: tu ṣṭāḥ praya<c> chanti samastakāmān homāvasāne hutabhuk śrīhariś ca . rājan mahan marutāṁ janma puṇyaṁ diter vrataṁ cābhihi taṁ mahat te ..27.. Note: BhP. 6.19.28 |
Final rubric: |
f. 63r: .. iti śrībhāgavate mahāpurāṇe ṣaṣṭaskaṁdhe puṁsavanaṁ vratakathano nāma ekonaviṁśo 'dhyāyaḥ .. .. |
Colophon: | none |
Filiation: | The eight manuscripts in the University of Pennsylvania's Collection of Indic Manuscripts, Items 2298–2305 (UPenn 2298, UPenn 2299, UPenn 2300, UPenn 2301, UPenn 2302, UPenn 2303, UPenn 2304, UPenn 2305) constitute a set of manuscripts of several skandhas of the Bhāgavatapurāṇa with Śrīdharasvāmin's Bhāgavatabhāvārthadīpikā written by the same hand. |
Language: | Sanskrit in Devanāgarī script |
Locus: | f. 1r–63v (complete) |
Author: | Śrīdharasvāmin |
Part: | ad skandha 6 |
Incipit: |
f. 1v: puṇyāraṇye nṛsiṁhaikanāmasiṁho virājate .. yannādataḥ palāyaṁte ma!ha!<hā>kalmaṣakuṁjarāḥ ..1.. Note: Kṛṣṇaśaṅkara Śāstrin 1965 vol. 6, p. 1, 6.1 intro. |
Explicit: |
f. 63r: ṣaṣṭhaskaṁdhanigūḍhārthapadabhāvārthadīpikā .. sadbhir āsevyatām eṣā yatiśrīdharanirmitā ..1.. Note: Kṛṣṇaśaṅkara Śāstrin 1965 vol. 6, p. 605, 6.19 end |
Final rubric: |
f. 63r: .. iti śrīśrīdharasvāmīviracitāyāṁ śrībhāgavatabhāvārthadīpikāyāṁ ṣaṣṭaskaṁdhe ekonaviṁśo 'dhyāyaḥ .. |
Colophon: | none |
Language: | Sanskrit in Devanāgarī script |
Form: | Folia |
Material: | Country-made paper. |
Extent: | 63 |
Dimension: | 17.2 x 40.4 cm |
Collation: | Single folios. |
Condition: | Very good condition. |
Binding: | Unbound. |
Layout: | Written in 11–15 lines per page in an hourglass arrangement with commentary above and below the base text. |
Hand 1: | Written in clear, bold, regular characters tilted forward in straight lines. |
Additions: |
The numeral “6” is written in a different hand on the front and back, i.e. on f. 1r and f. 63v, indicating the number of the skandha. Mistakes are covered over with yellow, written over, blocked out, or indicated by short vertical strokes above the syllable in question. |
Color: | Yellow is used to cover mistakes. |
Border: | Two sets of vertical double red lines rule the left and right margins of the text on each page. |
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. ” |
SubjectLC: | Puranas – Bhāgavatapurāṇa – 6. skandha. |
SubjectLC: | Manuscripts, Sanskrit – 19th century. |
SubjectLC: | Manuscripts – India – 19th century. |
SubjectSL: | Purāṇa. Ancient Cosmogony, Genealogy, Narrative |
Record revised: | 21 April 2012 |
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