Manuscript Identifiers

Collection:UPenn Ms. Coll. 390
Item:2174
Repository:Rare Book & Manuscript Library
Institution:University of Pennsylvania
Location:Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Catalog:Poleman
Item:1306

Contents

Work 1

Locus:ff. 1r-27r (incomplete)
Author:kṛṣṇa dvaipāyana vyāsa
Title:bhāgavatapurāṅa
Part:skandha 10, adhyāya 29-33
Incipit: f. 1v:
bhagavān api tā rātriḥ ...
Note: Inquit “śrībādarāyaṇiruvāca” absent.
(BhP. 10.29.1)
Explicit: f. 27v:
vikrīḍitaṃ ...
hṛdrogam āśv apahinoty acireṇa dhīraḥ||40||
(10.33.39 numbered as 40 as 10.33.3 is split into two)
Final rubric: f. 27v:
iti śrībhāgavate mahāpuraṇe daśamaskandhe trayastriṃśo ‘dhyāyaḥ||||||33|| kāśiviśveśvarārpaṇam astu||||śrīrāmasamartha f. 27r:
śrī| śa iti bhāgavatadaśamaskaṃdhaṃ trayastriṃśodhyāyaḥ samāptaḥ
Language:Sanskrit in Devanagari script

Physical description

Form:folia
Material:British Paper, chain lines & watermark
Watermark:ff1, 2, 13, 21: Crest with water at bottom, shield w/ cross on right, Lady Britania on left, crown w/ cross on top. ff23: GWA? 1810/1840? ff25: J & J T… TURKEY MILL 1810/1840?
Extent:23
Dimension:10.8 x 20.1 cm
Foliation:numbered on both r & v
formula: 1-14, 19-27; 27
Condition:Excellent
Binding: No binding

Decoration

Color:“Either space between double daNDas or double daNDas in red. Last invocation in red. Mistakes covered over with yellow. Marginal corrections, some in red.” Red side borders. It appears that scribe switched to double daNDas in red on 2v, then added red between double daNDas earlier and added double daNDas in red where missing.

History

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 -- 18th century.
SubjectLC:Manuscripts -- India -- 18th century.
SubjectSL:Purāṇa. Ancient Cosmogony, Genealogy, Narrative

Facsimile

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Transcription

f. 1r:
|śrīgaṇeśāya namaḥ|| rāmasamartha|||| athī śrībhāgavatadaśamaskaṃdāṃtargata adhyāyaprāraṃbhaḥ
f. 1v:
śrīgaṇeśāya namaḥ|| bhagavān api tā rātriḥ ...
Note: Inquit “śrībādarāyaṇiruvāca” absent.
(BhP. 10.29.1) 14v:
samavetā jaguḥ kṛṣṇaṃ ta
(BhP. 10.30.44) [missing 3 leaves, ] 14v:
kācinnetraraṃdhreṇa
(BhP. 10.32.8)
f. 27r:
vikrīḍitaṃ ...
hṛdrogam āśv apahinoty acireṇa dhīraḥ||40||
(10.33.39 numbered as 40 as 10.33.3 is split into two) iti śrībhāgavate mahāpuraṇe daśamaskandhe trayastriṃśo ‘dhyāyaḥ||||||33||
kāśiviśveśvarārpaṇam astu||||śrīrāmasamartha
f. 27v:
śrī| śa iti bhāgavatadaśamaskaṃdhaṃ trayastriṃśodhyāyaḥ samāptaḥ
Record revised:???date mo.??? 2010