Manuscript Identifiers

Collection:UPenn Ms. Coll. 390
Item:349
Repository:Rare Book & Manuscript Library
Institution:University of Pennsylvania
Location:Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Catalog:Poleman
Item:1364

Contents

Work 1

Locus:ff. 1r–51v (incomplete)
Author:Śrīdharasvāmin
Title:Bhāgavatabhāvārthadīpikā
Incipit: f. 1v:

vaṁśaṁ[ḥ] priyavratasyāpi nibodha nṛpasattama .
yo nāradād ātmavidyām adhigamya punar mahīm .
bhuktvā
vibhajya putrebhya aiśvaraṁ samagāt padam

iti . pūrvaskaṁdhāṁte priyavratasya prathamam ātmavidyā tato !gru!<gṛ>hāśramaḥ . tataḥ sa
rvasaṁgatyāgena mokṣa ity uktaṁ . tata vismitaḥ pṛcchati .

Explicit: f. 51v:

vi
hitā nidrārūpā nivṛttir yasya na labdham avasthānaṁ yena tamasi parikrāmati yatkiṁcana bhakṣyādikam upanataṁ prā
<ptaṁ . tadasaṁvibhajya .>

Colophon:none
Note:The manuscript contains the commentary of Śrīdharasvāmin on Bhāgavatapurāṇa 5.1.1–5.26.18 without the base text. The opening passage omits (stanzas 6-11 included in Kṛṣṇaśaṅkara Śāstrin's edition). The manuscript concludes the commentary on chapter 25, as is shown by the final rubric on f. 51r, and continues for three lines on f. 51r and twelve lines on f. 51v with commentary on chapter 26. The commentary breaks off abruptly in mid-sentence in 5.26.18. The text of the Bhāgavatapurāṇa continues through chapter 39, but the remainder contains very little commentary. The manuscript is estimated to be missing only one or two folios.
Language:Sanskrit in Devanāgarī script

   Work 1.1

   Part:Paṁcaviṁśo 'dhyāyaḥ
   Final rubric: f. 51r:
paṁcame paṁcaviṁśaḥ .
   Colophon:None

Physical description

Form:Folia
Material:Paper.
Extent:51
Dimension:14.3 x 30.3 cm
Condition:Missing one or two folios at the end. Text is legible and the text-area undamaged in the remainder. Water stains and frayed edges. Worm holes on f. 32rf. 49v. Folios 43 through 51 were stuck together and forcibly separated at some point as some of the paper from one folio is stuck to the next. The damage affects only a few akṣaras on lines 4 of f. 43v and line 10 of f. 44r and similarly through f. 50v. where it affects lines 3–4 on f. 50v and lines 10–11 of f. 51r.
Binding: Unbound.
Layout:The commentary is continuous without the presence of the base text.

Hands

Additions:

Mistakes written over, crossed through, or blotched out. There are a few marginal and interlinear corrections and additions.

Decoration

Color:Orange powder rubbed in over invocations, final rubrics and a few scattered syllables toward the beginning of the text.
Border:Vertical double red lines rule the left and right margins of the text on each page.

History

Origin: 17–
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

Whole imageIndividual pages
f. 1rf. 1r  
f. 1v,f. 2rf. 1v  f. 2r  
f. 2v,f. 3rf. 2v  f. 3r  
f. 3v,f. 4rf. 3v  f. 4r  
f. 4v,f. 5rf. 4v  f. 5r  
f. 5v,f. 6rf. 5v  f. 6r  
f. 6v,f. 7rf. 6v  f. 7r  
f. 7v,f. 8rf. 7v  f. 8r  
f. 8v,f. 9rf. 8v  f. 9r  
f. 9v,f. 10rf. 9v  f. 10r  
f. 10v,f. 11rf. 10v  f. 11r  
f. 11v,f. 12rf. 11v  f. 12r  
f. 12v,f. 13rf. 12v  f. 13r  
f. 13v,f. 14rf. 13v  f. 14r  
f. 14v,f. 15rf. 14v  f. 15r  
f. 15v,f. 16rf. 15v  f. 16r  
f. 16v,f. 17rf. 16v  f. 17r  
f. 17v,f. 18rf. 17v  f. 18r  
f. 18v,f. 19rf. 18v  f. 19r  
f. 19v,f. 20rf. 19v  f. 20r  
f. 20v,f. 21rf. 20v  f. 21r  
f. 21v,f. 22rf. 21v  f. 22r  
f. 22v,f. 23rf. 22v  f. 23r  
f. 23v,f. 24rf. 23v  f. 24r  
f. 24v,f. 25rf. 24v  f. 25r  
f. 25v,f. 26rf. 25v  f. 26r  
f. 26v,f. 27rf. 26v  f. 27r  
f. 27v,f. 28rf. 27v  f. 28r  
f. 28v,f. 29rf. 28v  f. 29r  
f. 29v,f. 30rf. 29v  f. 30r  
f. 30v,f. 31rf. 30v  f. 31r  
f. 31v,f. 32rf. 31v  f. 32r  
f. 32v,f. 33rf. 32v  f. 33r  
f. 33v,f. 34rf. 33v  f. 34r  
f. 34v,f. 35rf. 34v  f. 35r  
f. 35v,f. 36rf. 35v  f. 36r  
f. 36v,f. 37rf. 36v  f. 37r  
f. 37v,f. 38rf. 37v  f. 38r  
f. 38v,f. 39rf. 38v  f. 39r  
f. 39v,f. 40rf. 39v  f. 40r  
f. 40v,f. 41rf. 40v  f. 41r  
f. 41v,f. 42rf. 41v  f. 42r  
f. 42v,f. 43rf. 42v  f. 43r  
f. 43v,f. 44rf. 43v  f. 44r  
f. 44v,f. 45rf. 44v  f. 45r  
f. 45v,f. 46rf. 45v  f. 46r  
f. 46v,f. 47rf. 46v  f. 47r  
f. 47v,f. 48rf. 47v  f. 48r  
f. 48v,f. 49rf. 48v  f. 49r  
f. 49v,f. 50rf. 49v  f. 50r  
f. 50v,f. 51rf. 50v  f. 51r  
f. 51vf. 51v  


Transcription (Manuscript Layout)

aDyAya 1:
f.1v
Line 1: śrīgaṇeśāya namaḥ . õ namo bhagavate śrīvāsudevāya .. athātaḥ paṁcamaskaṁdha vyākhyā .. anekaviśeṣavān priyavratā
Line 2: nvayo yatra () prapaṁcyate .
vaṁśaṁ[ḥ] priyavratasyāpi nibodha nṛpasattama . yo nāradād ātmavidyām adhigamya punar mahīm . bhuktvā
Line 3: vibhajya putrebhya aiśvaraṁ samagāt padam ”
BhP. 4.31.26c–27d

iti . pūrvaskaṁdhāṁte priyavratasya prathamam ātmavidyā tato !gru!<gṛ>hāśramaḥ . tataḥ sa
Line 4: rvasaṁgatyāgena mokṣa ity uktaṁ . tata vismitaḥ pṛcchati .


BhPS. 5.1.105, 5.1.112–114.
f.51r
Line 9: [ [ aDyAya 25:
[
paṁcame paṁcaviṁśaḥ .
aDyAya 26:
[
f.51v
Line 11: [

vi
Line 12: hitā nidrārūpā nivṛttir yasya na labdham avasthānaṁ yena tamasi parikrāmati yatkiṁcana bhakṣyādikam upanataṁ prā
f. 52r:
Line 1: <ptaṁ . tadasaṁvibhajya .>

[missing 2 leaves, Missing one or two folios containing 5.26.18–5.39.]
BhPS. 5.26.17.7–5.26.18.2.
Record revised:3 January 2012