Manuscript Identifiers

Collection:UPenn Ms. Coll. 390
Item:2382
Repository:Rare Book & Manuscript Library
Institution:University of Pennsylvania
Location:Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Catalog:Poleman
Item:1340

Contents

Work 1

Locus:f. 1v-118r (complete)
Author:śrīdharasvāmin
Part:ad skandha 3
Incipit: f. 1v:
oṃ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya || tṛtīye tu trayastriṃśad adhyāyaiḥ sargavarṇanaṃ |
īśekṣayā guṇakṣobhāt sargo brahmāṃḍasaṃbhavaḥ ||1||
(BhP.S.BhD. 3.1.0-1 Sb03_0001.tif )
Final rubric: iti śrībhāgavate mahāpurāṇe tṛtīyaskaṃdhe bhāvārthadīpikāyāṃ śrī śrīdharasvāmīviracitāyāṃ trayastriṃśśattamo'dhyāyaḥ || śrīrastuḥ || || śubhaṃ bhavatu lekhapācakayo || ca ||
(BhP.S.BhD. 3.33.37 Sb03_1240.tif )
Filiation:with UP2380, UP2381, UP2383, UP2384, UP2385, using the same sturdy stock of paper; and filiated likely with UP2250, UP2251, UP2252, UP2253, UP2254.
Language:Sanskrit in Devanagari script

Work 2

Locus:f. 1v-118r (complete)
Author:kṛṣṇa dvaipāyana vyāsa
Title:bhāgavatapurāṇa
Part:skandha 3
Incipit: f. 1v:
oṃ namaḥ śrīpuruṣottamāya[ḥ] || śrīśuka uvāca || | evam etat purā pṛṣṭo maitreyo bhagavān kila( ||
(BhP. 03.1.1ab Sb03_0001.tif )
Final rubric: f. 118r:
iti śrībhāgavate mahāpurāṇe 'ṣṭādaśasāhasryāṃ saṃhitāyāṃ tṛṭīyaskaṃdhe kāpile †??†trayastriṃśo'dhyāyaḥ || ca || || samāptoyaṃtṛtīyaskaṃdhaḥ sa{ṃ}bhāṣyaḥ |||| śu ||
(cf. BhP. 03.33.37 Sb03_1240.tif )
Filiation:with UP2380, UP2381, UP2383, UP2384, UP2385 and likely with UP2250, UP2251, UP2252, UP2253, UP2254.
Language:Sanskrit in Devanagari script

Physical description

Form:folia
Material:country paper
Extent:118
Dimension:15.1 x 35.5 cm
Collation:single folia
Condition:excellent; the text at f. 7r:
is written upside down.
Layout:nine to thirteen lines per leaf.

Hands

Hand 1:Marginal and interlinear additions and lengthy corrections by different hands. On f. 118r:
the script looks larger and is possibly from a different hand. The last page was likely added/replaced at another time.

Decoration

Color:Some double daṇḍas in red. Some double daṇḍas in purple, some double daNDas in orange. Orange powder rubbed in over numbers, some invocations, some colophons, some introductions of speakers, and some words. Mistakes covered over with yellow or written over. F. 118r:
has daṇḍa markers are in bright read rather than purple or orange as in the rest of manuscript.

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 namo bhagavate vāsudevāya || tṛtīye tu trayastriṃśad adhyāyaiḥ sargavarṇanaṃ |
īśekṣayā guṇakṣobhāt sargo brahmāṃḍasaṃbhavaḥ ||1||...
(BhP.S.BhD. 3.1.0-1 Sb03_0001.tif ) mū:
f. 1v:
oṃ namaḥ śrīpuruṣottamāya[ḥ] || śrīśuka uvāca || | evam etat purā pṛṣṭo maitreyo bhagavān kila( || ...
(BhP. 03.1.1ab Sb03_0001.tif )
Commentary:
... iti śrībhāgavate mahāpurāṇe tṛtīyaskaṃdhe bhāvārthadīpikāyāṃ śrī śrīdharasvāmīviracitāyāṃ trayastriṃśśattamo'dhyāyaḥ || śrīrastuḥ || || śubhaṃ bhavatu lekhapācakayo || ca ||
(cf. BhP.S.BhD. 3.33.37 Sb03_1240.tif ) mū:
f. 118r:
... iti śrībhāgavate mahāpurāṇe 'ṣṭādaśasāhasryāṃ saṃhitāyāṃ tṛṭīyaskaṃdhe kāpile †??†trayastriṃśo'dhyāyaḥ || ca || || samāptoyaṃtṛtīyaskaṃdhaḥ sa{ṃ}bhāṣyaḥ |||| śu ||
(cf. BhP. 03.33.37 Sb03_1240.tif )
Record revised:???date mo.??? 2010