Manuscript Identifiers

Collection:UPenn Ms. Coll. 390
Item:2574
Repository:Rare Book & Manuscript Library
Institution:University of Pennsylvania
Location:Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Catalog:Poleman
Item:1310

Contents

Work 1

Locus:f. 1v-7v (incomplete)
Author:kṛṣṇa dvaipāyana vyāsa
Title:bhāgavatapurāṇa
Part:skandha 10, adhyāya 29-33 =rasapaYcADyAya
Incipit: f. 1v:
śrīśuka uvāca ||
Explicit: f. 7v:
... hṛdrogam āśv apahinoty acireṇa dhīraḥ
Final rubric: f. 7v:
iti ṣrībhāgavate mahāpurāṅe daṣamaskaṃdhe rāsakṇīdhāyāṃ trayastriṃṣo'dhyāyaḥ ||33||
Colophon: f. 7v:
†??? ??????†ārthisvayāṃ śubham astu
Language:Sanskrit in Devanagari script

Physical description

Form:folia
Material:country paper
Extent:6
Dimension:15.7 x 32.4 cm
Foliation: formula: 1-4, 6-7
Collation:single folia
Condition:Fair-Good.
Layout:Fifteen lines per leaf.

Hands

Additions:

A few marginal corrections.

Decoration

Color:Invocation, colophons, introductions of speakers, and double daṇḍas in red. Mistakes covered over with yellow.

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

f. 1v:
śrīkṛṣṇāya namaḥ | śrīrādhākṛ{ṣṇāya} namaḥ || śrīśukasyāmacaranadāsābhyāṃ namaḥ || śrīgur{u}devebhyo {na}maḥ || śrīśuka uvāca || ...
gopya ūcu{ḥ} || jayati te {'}dhikaṃ janma [missing 1 leaf, ]
(BhP. 10.31.01b-10.32.07a) ṇā tanmukhāmbujam | āpītam api nātṛpyat santas tac caraṇaṃ yathā ||7||
f. 7v:
... hṛdrogam āśv apahinoty acireṇa dhīraḥ iti śrībhāgavate mahāpurāṇe daśamaskaṃdhe rāsakṛīḍāyāṃ trayastriṃśo'dhyāyaḥ ||33|| †??? ??????†ārthisvayāṃ śubham astu
Note: Text deals with KRSNa and the Gopis, RAsa
Record revised:???date mo.??? 2010