Collection: | Indic Manuscripts |
Item: | 45 |
Repository: | John Hay Library |
Institution: | Brown University |
Location: | Providence, Rhode Island, United States of America |
Catalog: | Poleman |
Item: | 1301 |
Locus: | f. ?-? (incomplete) |
Author: | kṛṣṇa dvaipāyana vyāsa |
Title: | bhāgavatapurāṅa |
Part: | ?? |
Incipit: |
f. 1r, lines 1-3: śrīsītānayanotpala | śrī satisahajanmatridaśaśevitayāśā | vā saprakāśajayabhāṣā surapatiharaṇarāmacaṃdranṛpālā || va || mahaniyyaguṇagariṣṭulagunaṃmmuniśre ṣṭulakunikhilapurāṇavyākhyānavaikharīsametuṃḍainasūtuṃḍiṭlaniye | Note: first verse of the pajhcamaskaṃdhamu of the Potana Bhagavatamu |
Explicit: |
f. 57v, lines 1-2: bhū dvīpavarṣasaridadrinabhassamudrapātāvadijña?s akatā?s āgrahaṇalokasaṃsthitaṃunu | Note: variation of the last verse of the paṃcamaskaṃdha of the Potana Bhagavatamu |
Final rubric: |
f. 57v, line 2: nanukadhalaṃgalapaṃcamaskaṃdhaṃsaṃpurṇaṃ || |
Colophon: |
f. 57v, lines 3-4: śrītārāmārpaṇamastu || śrīkṛṣṇarpaṇamastu || śrīlakṣmīnṛsiṃhyārpaṇamastu || śrīha yagrivāhanamaḥ || śrīśrīśrīśrīśrīśrīśrīśrīśrīśrīśrīśrīśrīśrīśrīśrīśrīśrīśrīśrīśrījjeyanamaḥ || |
Language: | Telugu in Telugu script |
Locus: | f. ?-? (complete) |
Author: | kṛṣṇa dvaipāyana vyāsa |
Title: | bhāgavatapurāṅa |
Part: | ?? |
Incipit: |
f. 63r: śrīnīācalanādhunaṃccitadayāṃ??s dhunjagannayakun | nānāvaibhavasaṃyutunmunijanānaṃddalayunsarvadevanīkasthiramy|auratnarucibhavyāṃbhrudvayiṃśebhartan| Note: first verse of the ṣaṣṭhaskaṃdhamu of the Potana Bhagavatamu |
Explicit: |
f. 126v, line 3: jalavavimalagātrisatyabhāmākaḷatra || Note: variation of the last verse of the ṣaṣṭamaskaṃdha of the Potana Bhagavatamu |
Final rubric: |
f. 126v, lines 4-6: idihanumatkaṭākṣalabdavaraprasāda | sahajasārasvatacaṃdrnāmāṃkkarāmavidvanmaṇikumāra | aṣṭaghaṃṭṭavadhānapara meśvara | haribhaṭṭāraka | praṇītaṃbaina | śrīmahābhāgavatamahāpurāṇaṃbunaṃdu | narakanirūpaṇaṃbunu | najāmīḷopākhyānaṃbunu | viṣṇu yamadūtalasaṃvvādaṃbbunu | prācetanajanmaṃbunu | anubhavasvargalakṣaṇaṃbunu | nārāyaṇakavacaprabhāvaṃbunu | viśvarūpuvadhayunu | f. 127r, lines 1-2: vṛtrāsurujanmaṃbunu | devāsurayudhaṃbunu | citraketopakhyānambunu | puṃsavanavrataprakāraṃbunu | nanaṃviśeṣaṃbbulaṃbaripūrnaṃbulayyeṣaṣṭama skaṃdhamusaṃpūrnnamu || |
Colophon: |
f. 127r, lines 2-3: śrīnīlācanasvāminenamaḥ || śrīsītārāmārpaṇamastu || śrīkṛṣṇārpaṇamastu || śrīlakṣmīnṛsiṃhyārpaṇamastu || śrīhayagrī vāyanamaḥ || karakṛtamaparādhaḥkṣaṃttumarhaṃttisaṃttaḥ | śrīśrīśrīśrīśrīśrīśrīśrīśrīśrīśrīśrīśrīśrīśrīśrīśrīśrī | |
Language: | Telugu in Telugu script |
Locus: | f. ?-? (complete) |
Author: | kṛṣṇa dvaipāyana vyāsa |
Title: | bhāgavatapurāṅa |
Part: | ?? |
Incipit: |
f. 128r, lines 1-3: śrīmadvikhyātilatākrāmitarodhoṃttarāḷakamanīyyamahā | jīmūtatulitadehaśyāmalarucijālarāmacaṃdranṛpāla || va || mahaniyyaguṇagariṣṭulagunaṃmmuniśreṣṭulakunikhalapurāṇavyākhyānavaikharīsametuṃḍainasūtuṃḍiṭlaniyenaṭluparikṣinnaredṛṃḍuśukayogīṃdṛṃganuṃggoni || si || sarvabhutamulakusamuḍuneccelipriyu ḍainavaikuṃṭhuḍnaṃtuḍādyu | Note: first verse of the saptamaskaṃdha of the Potana Bhagavatamu |
Explicit: |
f. 194r, line 4: yīśvaruṃṭṭutripuraṃbuludavāṃcculuyu | dharmādharmavivaraṃbula | Note: variation of the last verse of the saptamaskaṃdha of the Potana Bhagavatamu |
Final rubric: |
f. 194r, lines 4-5: niyaṃḍidathalaṃgalasaptamaskaṃ dhamusaṃpūrṇaṃ || |
Colophon: |
f. 194r, line 5: śrītārāmārpaṇamastu || śrīkṛṣṇarpaṇamastu || asmamadnarubhyotnamaḥ || śrīhayagrīvāyanamaḥ || śrīśrīśrīśrīśrī |
Language: | Telugu in Telugu script |
Locus: | f. ?-? (complete) |
Author: | kṛṣṇa dvaipāyana vyāsa |
Title: | bhāgavatapurāṅa |
Part: | ?? |
Incipit: |
f. 195r.l2: śrīmannāmapayoda | śyāmadhaṇābhṛllalāmajagadabhirāmā | rāmājanakāmamahoddāmaguṇa sthomadhāmadaśaradharāmā || va || Note: first verse of the aṣṭamaskaṃdha of the Potana Bhagavatamu |
Explicit: |
f. 268r: bhavaḷabahuḷadarttidharmasatyāsuvarti || Note: variation of the last verse of the aṣṭamaskaṃdha of the Potana Bhagavatamu |
Final rubric: |
f. 268r, lines 1-5: idiśrīparameśvara karuṅadavitakavitāvicitrakesanamaṃtriputrasahajapāṃḍityapotanāmātyapraṇītaṃbainaśrīmahābhāgavatambanumahāpurāṇambunaṃdusvāyaṃbhuvasva rociṣavuttamatāmasamanuvulacaritraṃbulunu | karimakariyuddhaṃbunu | gajeṃdramokṣaṇaṃbunu | raivatakacākṣaṣamaṣavulavartanaṃbulunu | samudra madhanaṃbunu | vimodhbavaṃbunu | garaḷabhakṣaṇaṃbunu | kāmadhenukalpavṛkṣaciṃtamaṇilakṣmīamṛtādisaṃbhavaṃbunu | amarāsurayuddhaṃbunu | tākṣasavadhaṃbunu | hariharasallāpaṃbunu | harikapaṭaṭkāminīrupavipramaṃbunu | vaivasvatasūryasāvarṇī | dakṣasāvarṇī | brahmasāvarṇī | dharmasāvarṇī | bhadra f. 269v, lines 1-2: sāvarṇī | vedasāvarṇī | yiṃdrasāvarṇī | manuvulavṛttaṃvaṃbulunu | balidaṃḍagamanaṃbunu | devaphalāyanaṃbunu | vāmanavatāraṃbunu | suprebalisaṃvādaṃbunu | trivikrama sphuraṇaṃbunu | rākṣasulasutalanamanaṃbunu | satyapratopākhyānambunu | matyāvatāraṃbunu | nanukadhalaṃgalaaṣṭamaskaṃdhaṃsaṃpūrṇaṃ || |
Colophon: | śrītārāmārpaṇamastu || śrīkṛṣṇarpaṇamastu || śrīgurudevārpaṇamastu || śrīlakṣmīnṛsiṃhyārpaṇamastu || śrīdattatreyārpaṇamastu || śrīśrīśrī
śrīśrīśrīśrīśrīśrīśrīśrīśrīśrīśrīśrīśrīśrīśrīśrīśrīśrīśrīśrīśrīśrīśrīśrīśrīśrīśrīśrījeyunu || |
Language: | Telugu in Telugu script |
Form: | folia |
Material: | palm leaf |
Extent: | 270 |
Dimension: | 4 x 38 cm |
Foliation: | The last four blank folios [iv-ix] appear to be out of order. Their various shapes, sizes and peg hole placements are not in relationship to the surrounding folios.
Two folios numbered as 176
no folio 177
formula: [i-ii], 1-59, 63-120, [iii], 121-176[a], 176[b], 178-268, [iv-ix] |
Condition: | Fair condition; browned leaves; minimal fraying at the edges; a few cracked and split leaves that don't interfere with legibility; occassional worm holes; Most of the folios have considerable ink fading but the text is still legible by means of the etching; Folio 40 split horizontally on left margin center and sewn together. |
Binding: |
Wooden covers with tying cord and a metal peg through lateral holes
Condition: good. |
Layout: |
Text only written in center between two binding holes folio 1r & v Writing ends on 4th line the last line made up of a row of “śrī” 's folio 57v Blank folios except for folio number on recto side folio 58 & 59 Writing ends on 3rd line half of 3rd line made up of “śrī” 's folio 127r Blank on verso of folio folio 127v Writing ends on 1st line and made up of all “śrī” 's folio 194v Text only written in center between to binding holes folio 195r & v Writing ends on 3rd line 4th line made up of all “śrī” 's folio 268v |
Additions: |
Note in left margin: “śubhamastu” “avighnamastu” “paṃcamaskaṃ” “dhamu ||” flower folio 1r Note in left margin: illegible scribble folio 39v Note in left margin: “śubhamastu” “avighnamastu” “ṣaṣṭamaskaṃdhaṃ” folio 63r Note in left margin: 3 “harināma” folio 73r Note in left margin: “nāraduniki” “śāpamu” folio 82r Note in left margin: “nāra” “yanā” “kavacaṃ” folio 94r Note in left margin: “vṛtrāsura” “jananīṃ” folio 96r Note in left margin: “vṛtrā” 06 “suravadha” folio 106r Note in left margin: “avighnamastu” “śubhamastu” “saptamaskaṃdham” folio 128r Note in left margin: “prakṛti” folio 128v Note in left margin: “śubhamastu | avighnamastu” “śrīśāradaṃbbāyainamaḥ” “aṣṭamaskaṃdhamū” folio 195r Note in left margin: ? “to” “baṃttī” folio 217r |
Illustration: | ??flowers in some left margins?? |
Acquisition: |
(Stuart C. Sherman (1977: 79)) describes the acquisition of the Indic manuscripts in the Brown University Library as follows:
Indic ManuscriptsA collection of fifty-three codices (not after 1800) in Burmese, Cambodian, Telugu Skandhas, Bengali, and Sinhalese script on palm leaves with lacquered wood covers tied with cords. Subjects include Buddhist canon, PÄlÄ« grammar and lexicons, Epics, Dance, Drama, and a treatise on midwifery and diseases of women. Recorded in ( A Census of Indic Manuscripts in the United States and Canada, by Horace I. Poleman, New Haven: American Oriental Society, 1938. ) Register available. Gift of Baptist missionaries to Burma, among whom was Adoniram Judson Brown Class of 1807, who first translated the Bible into Burmese. |
SubjectLC: | Manuscripts, Telugu |
SubjectSL: | Purāṇa. Ancient Cosmogony, Genealogy, Narrative |
Record revised: | 25 December 2009 |
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