Manuscript Identifiers

Collection:UPenn Ms. Coll. 390
Item:2629
Repository:Rare Book & Manuscript Library
Institution:University of Pennsylvania
Location:Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Catalog:Poleman
Item:1357

Contents

Work 1

   Work 1.1

   Locus:ff. 1-95r (complete)
   Author:śrīdharasvāminfl. 1350-1450
   Title:bhāgavatabhāvārthadīpikā
   Part:ad skandha 4
   Incipit: f. 1v:
oṃ athaikatriṃśatādhyāyair visargasturya īryate ||
visargas tv īśvarādhīvair brahmamanvādibhiḥ kṛtaḥ ||1|| ...
   Final rubric: f. 95r:
i{ti} śrī{bhā}ga{va}te mahā{pu}rāṇe ca{tu}rtha{skaṃ}dhe vādī kāyāṃrākatriṃśodhyāyaḥ samāpto yaṃ caturthaḥ
   Language:Sanskrit in Devanagari script

   Work 1.2

   Locus:ff. 1-95r (complete)
   Author:kṛṣṇa dvaipāyana vyāsa
   Title:bhāgavatapurāṇa
   Part:skandha 4
   Incipit: śrīmaitreya uvāca || oṃ namos tu śatarūpāyāṃ tistaḥ kanyāś ca jajñire || ...
   Final rubric: f. 95r:
iti {śrī}bhā{ga}va{te} ma{hā}pu{rā}ṇe {ca}tu{rtha}skaṃ{dhe} pra{ce}ta {u}pā{khyā}naṃ {nā}mai{ka}triṃ{śo'}dhyāyaḥ śubhaṃ
   Language:Sanskrit in Devanagari script

Physical description

Form:folia
Material:paper
Extent:98
Dimension:20.5 x 32.4 cm
Foliation: formula: [i], 1-87[a], 87[b]-95, [ii]
Condition:good to very good; the top of folios 45 to 94 is badly worm eaten, destroying much of the text on many of these folios, but the text has been repaired/restored on ff 45-94
Layout:

- the commentary runs above and below the mUla

Folios 87a recto and 87b recto have been left blank.

The text on many folios continues into the right margin.

Hands

Additions:

Marginal corrections.

Decoration

Color:Invocation, Double daNDas, some colophons, every other syllable of some colophons, some introductions of speakers, and every other syllable of some introductions of speakers in red. The letters and double daNDas in red ink have not been written in on some folios.

History

Origin:"not given" "not given"
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.

Facsimile

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Transcription

Commentary:
f. 1v:
oṃ svasti śrīgaṇeśāyanamaḥ || oṃ athaikatriṃśatādhyāyair visargasturya īryate ||
visargas tv īśvarādhīvair brahmamanvādibhiḥ kṛtaḥ ||1||... mū:
śrīmaitreya uvāca || oṃ namos tu śatarūpāyāṃ tistaḥ kanyāś ca jajñire || ...
Commentary:
f. 95r:
i{ti} śrī{bhā}ga{va}te mahā{pu}rāṇe ca{tu}rtha{skaṃ}dhe vādī kāyāṃrākatriṃśodhyāyaḥ samāpto yaṃ caturthaḥ
Note: (Fleming) F. 95r [...] has missing letters which were to be put in in red.
mū:
f. 95r:
iti {śrī}bhā{ga}va{te} ma{hā}pu{rā}ṇe {ca}tu{rtha}skaṃ{dhe} pra{ce}ta {u}pā{khyā}naṃ {nā}mai{ka}triṃ{śo'}dhyāyaḥ śubhaṃ
Record revised:???date mo.??? 2010