Manuscript Identifiers

Collection:UPenn Ms. Coll. 390
Item:2621
Repository:Rare Book & Manuscript Library
Institution:University of Pennsylvania
Location:Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Catalog:Poleman
Item:1349

Contents

Work 1

Locus:f. 1v-81r (complete)
Author:śrīdharasvāmin
Incipit: f. 1v:
athātaḥ paṅcamaskandha vyākhyānekaniśeṣavān |...
(BhP.S.BhD. 05.1.1.0 Sb05_002.tif )
Final rubric: f. 81r, right hand margin:
iti śrībhāvārthadīpikāyāṃ paṃcamaskaṃdhe narakānuvarṇanaṃ nāma ṣadviṃśatitamodhyāyaḥ || || ||
(cf. BhP.S.BhD. 05.26.40.1 Sb05_577.tif )
Filiation:UP2618, UP2620, UP2622, and UP2627; likely filiation with UP2617, UP2623, and UP2624; and possible affiliation with UP2619, UP2626 and UP2628.
Language:Sanskrit in Devanagari script

Work 2

Locus:f. 1v-81r (complete)
Author:kṛṣṇa dvaipāyana vyāsa
Title:bhāgavatapurāṇa
Part:skandha 5
Incipit: f. 1v:
śrī {rāj}o{vā}ca priyavrato bhāgavata ātmārāma{ḥ} kathaṃ mune | ...
(BhP. 05.01.1 Sb05_001.tif )
Explicit: ... sthūlaṃ vapuḥ sakalajīvanikāyadhāma ||30||
(BhP. 05.26.40 Sb05_577.tif )
Final rubric: f. 81r:
iti śrībhāgavate ma(purāṇe paṃca ma ka va rī saṃvādenarakānuvarṇanaṃ nāma ṣaḍviṃśatitamodhyāyaḥ || samāptoyaṃ paṃcamaskaṃdhaḥ || ||
(BhP. 05.26.40 Sb05_577.tif )
Filiation:UP2618, UP2620, UP2622, and UP2627; likely filiation with UP2617, UP2623, and UP2624; and possible affiliation with UP2619, UP2626 and UP2628.
Language:Sanskrit in Devanagari script

Physical description

Form:folia
Material:country paper; very thin, well made. Like that of UP2618, UP2619, and UP2620.
Extent:83
Dimension:19-22.5; folios vary x 32.5-34.5; folios vary cm
Foliation:The first folio is blank; the final folio is also blank; total folios=83.
Collation:single folia
Condition:very good-excellent; edges in bad shape on some folios; some worm eaten portions near end but not affecting text.
Layout:eleven to eighteen lines.

Hands

Additions:

Marginal corrections. Very few daṇḍas or double daṇḍas are written.

Decoration

Color:Double daṇḍas and practically every other syllable of colophons and introductions of speakers, in red. Mistakes covered over with yellow. Marginal corrections. The text continues over into the right margin on many folios. The letters and double daṇḍas in red ink have not been written in on a number of folios, beginning f. 3r. On f. 81r:
many of the red akṣaras are 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. ”

Facsimile

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Transcription

Commentary:
f. 1v:
oṃ śrī gaṇeśāya namaḥ athātaḥ paṅcamaskandha vyākhyānekaniśeṣavān | ...
(BhP.S.BhD. 05.1.1.0 Sb05_002.tif ) mū:
f. 1v:
śrī {rāj}o{vā}ca priyavrato bhāgavata ātmārāma{ḥ} kathaṃ mune | ...
(BhP. 05.01.1 Sb05_001.tif )
f. 77r:
Note: folio 77r is written upside down.
f. 81r:
Commentary:
iti śrībhāvārthadīpikāyāṃ paṃcamaskaṃdhe narakānuvarṇanaṃ nāma ṣadviṃśatitamodhyāyaḥ || || ||
(cf. BhP.S.BhD. 05.26.40.1 Sb05_577.tif ) mū:
... sthūlaṃ vapuḥ sakalajīvanikāyadhāma ||30||
(BhP. 05.26.40 Sb05_577.tif ) iti śrībhāgavate ma(purāṇe paṃca ma ka va rī saṃvādenarakānuvarṇanaṃ nāma ṣaḍviṃśatitamodhyāyaḥ || samāptoyaṃ paṃcamaskaṃdhaḥ || ||
(BhP. 05.26.40 Sb05_577.tif )
Record revised:???date mo.??? 2010