Manuscript Identifiers

Collection:UPenn Ms. Coll. 390
Item:2374
Repository:Rare Book & Manuscript Library
Institution:University of Pennsylvania
Location:Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Catalog:Poleman
Item:1332

Contents

Work 1

Locus:f. 1v-74r (complete)
Author:śrīdharasvāmin
Part:ad skandha 1
Incipit: f. 1v:
oṃ namaḥ paramahaṃsāsvāditacaraṇakamalacinmakaraṃdāya bhaktajanamānasanivāsāya śrīrāmacaṃdrāya ||
(cf. BhP.S.BhD. 1.1.1 Sb01_001.tif )
Final rubric: f. 74r:
iti prathme ekonaviṃśatimodhyāyaḥ || ||
(BhP.S.BhD. 01.19.40 Sb01_809.tif )
Filiation:UP2375, UP2376, UP2377, UP2378, UP2379, all of which have clear textual filiation; and possibly with UP2373. Compare, e.g., "bh" akṣaras in both.
Language:Sanskrit in Devanagari script

Work 2

Locus:f. 1v-74r (complete)
Author:kṛṣṇa dvaipāyana vyāsa
Title:bhāgavatapurāṇa
Part:skandha 1
Incipit: f. 1v:
oṃ janmādyasya yato{'}nvayād itarataś cārtheṣv abhijñaḥ |
(BhP. 01.1.1a Sb01_001.tif )
Final rubric: f. 74r:
iti śrībhāgavate mahāpurāne prathamaskaṃdhe śukāgamanaṃ nāma ekonaviṃśo{'}dhyāyaḥ ||
(cf. BhP. 01.19.40 Sb01_809.tif )
Filiation:UP2375, UP2376, UP2377, UP2378, UP2379, all of which have clear textual filiation; and possibly with UP2373. Compare, e.g., "bh" akṣaras in both.
Language:Sanskrit in Devanagari script

Physical description

Form:folia
Material:country paper
Extent:74
Dimension:15.1 x 37.5 cm
Collation:single folia
Condition:fair-good; The ink is wearing off in some places, but the text is still legible. The paper is very brown and brittle.
Layout:seven to sixteen lines per leaf.

Hands

Hand 1:Marignal corrections in different hands througuout. Some black blotches.
Additions:

f. 1r:
addition of note skaṃdha 1, 2, 3, 4, 8, 9, 11. May indicate a filiation of mss of some kind.

Decoration

Color:Some folios show signs of having been colored yellow once. Numbers, most double daṇḍas, the space between some double daṇḍas, some invocations, some introductions of speakers, some colophons, every other letter of some colophon, and daṇḍas between the letters of some colophons in red. Mistakes covered over with yellow or written over.

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:
śrīgaṇeśāyanamaḥ || || oṃ namaḥ paramahaṃsāsvāditacaraṇakamalacinmakaraṃdāya bhaktajanamānasanivāsāya śrīrāmacaṃdrāya || ...
(cf. BhP.S.BhD. 1.1.1 Sb01_001.tif ) mū:
f. 1v:
oṃ janmādyasya yato{'}nvayāditarataścārtheṣvabhijñaḥ | ...
(BhP. 01.1.1a Sb01_001.tif )
f. 74r:
Commentary:
... iti prathme ekonaviṃśatimodhyāyaḥ || ||
(BhP.S.BhD. 01.19.40 Sb01_809.tif ) mū:
... iti śrībhāgavate mahāpurāne prathamaskaṃdhe śukāgamanaṃ nāma ekonaviṃśo{'}dhyāyaḥ ||
(cf. BhP. 01.19.40 Sb01_809.tif )
Record revised:???date mo.??? 2010