Manuscript Identifiers

Collection:UPenn Ms. Coll. 390
Item:2300
Repository:Rare Book & Manuscript Library
Institution:University of Pennsylvania
Location:Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Catalog:Poleman
Item:1324

Contents

Work 1

Locus:ff. 1v-118r (complete)
Author:kṛṣṇa dvaipāyana vyāsa
Title:bhāgavatapurāṇa
Part:skandha 3
Incipit: f. 1v:
śrīśuka uvāca || || evam etat purā pṛṣṭo ...
(BhP. 3.1.1)
Explicit: f. 118r:
bhagavatpad[a](raviṃdaṃ ||37|| ||
(BhP. 3.33.37)
Final rubric: f. 118r:
iti śrībhāgavate mahāpurāṇe tṛtīyaskaṃdhe kapileye trayastriṃśattamo 'dhyāyaḥ ||33||
Language:Sanskrit in Devanagari script

Work 2

Locus:f. 1v-118r (complete)
Author:śrīdharasvāmin fl. 1350-1450
Part:ad skandha 3
Incipit: f. 1v:
tṛtīye tu trayas triṃśadadhyāyaiḥ
Explicit: f. 118r:
| upalabhate prāpnoti ||37|| ||
Final rubric: f. 118r:
iti śrībhāgavate mahāpurāṇe tṛtī(ya)skaṃdhe bhāvārthadīpikāyāṃ śrīdharasvāmiviracitāoyāṃ trayastriṃśo 'dhyāyaḥ || ||
Language:Sanskrit in Devanagari script

Physical description

Form:folia
Material:Country-made paper.
Extent:63
Dimension:17 x 40 cm
Foliation:118 leaves, foliated 1-118. F. 118 foliated on recto.
formula: 1-118
Condition:Very good condition.
Layout:11-15 lines per page. Text with commentary. Text above and below commentary.

Decoration

Color:Mistakes [sometimes] covered over with yellow.

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:Puranas -- Bhāgavatapurāṇa -- 3. skandha.
SubjectLC:Manuscripts, Sanskrit -- 19th century.
SubjectLC:Manuscripts -- India -- 19th century.
SubjectSL:Purāṇa. Ancient Cosmogony, Genealogy, Narrative

Facsimile

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Transcription

mū:
f. 1v:
|| śrīkṛṣṇāya namaḥ || || śrīśuka uvāca || || evam etat purā pṛṣṭo ...
(BhP. 3.1.1)
|| oṃ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya || || tṛtīye tu trayas triṃśadadhyāyaiḥ
mū:
f. 118r:
bhagavatpad[a](raviṃdaṃ ||37|| ||
(BhP. 3.33.37) iti śrībhāgavate mahāpurāṇe tṛtīyaskaṃdhe kapileye trayastriṃśattamo 'dhyāyaḥ ||33||
| upalabhate prāpnoti ||37|| || iti śrībhāgavate mahāpurāṇe tṛtī(ya)skaṃdhe bhāvārthadīpikāyāṃ śrīdharasvāmiviracitāoyāṃ trayastriṃśo 'dhyāyaḥ || ||
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