Collection: | UPenn Ms. Coll. 390 |
Item: | 1378 |
Repository: | Rare Book & Manuscript Library |
Institution: | University of Pennsylvania |
Location: | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America |
Catalog: | Poleman |
Item: | 2464 |
Locus: | ff. 1r–14v |
Author: | Kṛṣṇa Dvaipāyana Vyāsa |
Title: | Vedastuti |
Part: | Adhyāya 87 |
Part: | 10.87.1–50 |
Incipit: |
f. 1v
pa[i]rīkṣid [au](u)vāca .. brahman brahmaṇy anirdeśye nirguṇe guṇavṛttayaḥ .. kathaṁ caraṁti śrutayaḥ sākṣāt sadasataḥ pare ..1 ( BhP. 10.87.1 ) |
Explicit: |
f. 13r
yosyotprekṣaka ādimadhyanidhanaṁ yo vyaktajīveśvaro yaḥ sṛṣṭvedam anupraviśya ṛṣiṇā[ṁ] cakre puraḥ śāsti tāḥ .. yaṁ sampadya jahāty ajām anuśayī suptaḥ kulāyaṁ yathā taṁ kaivalyanirastayonim abhayaṁ dhyāyed ajasraṁ harim ..50.. ( BhP. 10.87.50 ) (Śārdūlavikrīḍita) |
Final rubric: |
f. 13r–f. 13v
iti śrī mahābhāgavate mahāpurāṇe daśamaskaṁ dhe vedakṛtabrahmastutir nāma saptāśititamo dhyāyaḥ .. |
Colophon: | none |
Language: | Sanskrit in Devanāgarī script |
Form: | Folia |
Material: | Paper |
Extent: | 13 folia |
Dimension: | 10.2 x 15.5 cm (h x w) |
Foliation: | Foliated in the upper left margin on the verso of every even folio 2–12, and on f. 13v . Folio 14 is blank but for the added title on f. [14]v . |
Formula: | [1], 2, [3], 4, [5], 6, [7], 8, [9], 10, [11], 12, 13, [14] |
Collation: | Paired folios. |
Formula: | [1]–2, [3]–4, [5]–6, [7]–8, [9]–10, [11]–12, 13–[14] |
Condition: | Excellent. |
Binding: | Unbound |
Seal: | A circular stamp on the right of f. 1r and f. [14]v reads Library University Pennsylvania. |
Layout: | Written in seven lines per page. |
Hand 1: | Written in clear, bold, regular characters tilted slightly forward in straight lines. |
Hand 2: | The title on the back, f. [14]v, is an addition in a different hand, which may be the same hand that corrected the numeral 2 into a 3 and added a 1 before it on f. 13v. |
Additions: |
On the back of the last folio, f. [14]v is written the title of the selection, vedastuti .Mistakes are covered over with yellow. There are a few marginal corrections. |
Color: | Mistakes are covered over with yellow. |
Origin: | 18– |
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. |
SubjectLC: | Bhāgavatapurāṇa |
SubjectLC: | Manuscripts, Sanskrit – 19th century. |
SubjectLC: | Manuscripts – India – 19th century. |
SubjectSL: | Purāṇa. Ancient Cosmogony, Genealogy, Narrative |