Collection: | UPenn Ms. Coll. 390 |
Item: | 515 |
Repository: | Rare Book & Manuscript Library |
Institution: | University of Pennsylvania |
Location: | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America |
Catalog: | Poleman |
Item: | 1376 |
Locus: | ff. 1r–25v |
Author: | Kṛṣṇa Dvaipāyana Vyāsa |
Title: | Rāsakrīḍā |
Colophon: | none |
Note: | The Rāsakrīḍā is otherwise known as the Rāsalīlā and is narrated in five chapters, BhP. 10.29.1–10.33.39, called the Rāsapañcādhyāyī. The present manuscript includes adhyāyas 29-30, 32-33, but skips adhyāya 31. |
Language: | Sanskrit in Devanāgarī script |
Locus: | ff. 1v–9r |
Part: | Adhyāya 29 |
Incipit: |
f. 1v
.. śrīśuka uvāca .. bhagavān api tā rātrīḥ śaradotphullamallikāḥ vīkṣya raṁtuṁ manaś cakre yogamāyām upāśritaḥ 1 ( BhP. 10.29.1 ) |
Final rubric: |
f. 9r
śra iti śrī bhāgava[me]te mahāpurāṇe daśamaskaṁdhe rāsakrīḍāyāṁ ekonatri<ṁ>śo <'>dhyayaḥ ..!39!<29>.. |
Locus: | ff. 9r–16v |
Part: | Kṛṣṇānveṣaṇa |
Part: | Adhyāya 30 |
Incipit: |
f. 9r–f. 9v
.. śraśuka uvāca .. |
Final rubric: |
f. 16r
iti śrī bhāgavate mahāpurāṇe daśamaskaṁdhe rāsakrīḍāyāṁ śrīkṛṣṇānveṣa!ṇe!ṇaṁ nāma tri<ṁ>śo <'>dhyayaḥ 30 |
Locus: | ff. 16r–19r |
Part: | Adhyāya 32 |
Incipit: |
f. 16r
śrīśuka uvāca iti gopyaḥ pragāyaṁtya<ḥ> pralapa<ṁ>tyaś ca citradhā ruruduḥ susvaraṁ rājan kṛṣṇadarśanalālasāḥ 1 ( BhP. 10.31.1 ) (Anuṣṭubh) |
Final rubric: |
f. 19r
iti śrī bhāgavate mahāpurāṇe daśamaska<ṁ>dhe rāsakrīḍāyāṁ dvātriṁśo <'>dhyayaḥ 32 |
Locus: | ff. 19r–25v |
Part: | Adhyāya 33 |
Incipit: |
f. 19r
śrīśuka0 |
Explicit: |
f. 25r–f. 25v
brahmarātra upāvṛtte vāsudevānumoditāḥ anichaṁtyo yayu r gopyaḥ svagṛhān bhagava!n!<t>prīyā 40 (Ahlborn: BhP. 10.33.38 ) vikrī <...> (Ahlborn: BhP. 10.33.39a ) |
Form: | Codex |
Material: | Paper |
Extent: | 25 folia |
Dimension: | 14 x 27 cm (h x w) |
Foliation: | numbered 1–25 on the upper left and lower right of the verso of each page. |
Formula: | 1–25 |
Signatures: | kṛṣṇā appears above the folio number in the lower right margin on f. 1v. |
Collation: | Single folia |
Condition: | Very good with water or grease stains in the lower corners of each page, and larger stains on f. 24v–f. 25v. |
Binding: | Unbound but folds on the left like a bound book. |
Seal: | A circular stamp in blue ink in the upper left of the front cover and on the lower right of back reads Library University Pennsylvania. |
Layout: | Each folio of the ms. is written on the right half of the recto and left half of the verso, and the stack of folios is folded in half like a book. The pages in the first half of the book are therefore empty. When the folios are let to fall naturally open, the recto of the first folio is visible, and the text starts just after the middle on the verso of f. 1v. |
Hand 1: | The text is written in calligraphy with a reed pen. |
Hand 2: | The front cover of the book (which is the right side of f. 25v unfolded) is written in Hindustani by a different hand upside down from the rest of the ms. |
Additions: |
Written on the front cover is the following: śrī .. śrī gaśāya namaḥ .. śrī gaṇeśāya namaḥ .. śrī gaṇeśāya namaḥ .. rāma ne jānā re .. abhāgeta rā0 .. vāse prāyā kola kara yā bharamobhṛlānā re a0 .. rāmanāma vīsarāya ke vīśya mala paṭānā re a0 .. pānī make kulavā chanamakularanā re ā0 , and continues for three lines written horizontally downwards in the left margin. |
Color: | The first speaker on f. 1v, the final rubric of adhyāya 29 on f. 9r and the first speaker of adhyāya 30 on f. 9r–f. 9v are written in red. |
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 – 18th century. |
SubjectLC: | Manuscripts – India – 18th century. |
SubjectSL: | Purāṇa. Ancient Cosmogony, Genealogy, Narrative |
Whole image | Individual pages | |
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f. 1v, f. 2r | f. 1v f. 2r | |
f. 2v, f. 3r | f. 2v f. 3r | |
f. 3v, f. 4r | f. 3v f. 4r | |
f. 4v, f. 5r | f. 4v f. 5r | |
f. 5v, f. 6r | f. 5v f. 6r | |
f. 6v, f. 7r | f. 6v f. 7r | |
f. 7v, f. 8r | f. 7v f. 8r | |
f. 8v, f. 9r | f. 8v f. 9r |
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f. 8v, f. 9r | f. 8v f. 9r | |
f. 9v, f. 10r | f. 9v f. 10r | |
f. 10v, f. 11r | f. 10v f. 11r | |
f. 11v, f. 12r | f. 11v f. 12r | |
f. 12v, f. 13r | f. 12v f. 13r | |
f. 13v, f. 14r | f. 13v f. 14r | |
f. 14v, f. 15r | f. 14v f. 15r | |
f. 15v, f. 16r | f. 15v f. 16r |
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f. 15v, f. 16r | f. 15v f. 16r | |
f. 16v, f. 17r | f. 16v f. 17r | |
f. 17v, f. 18r | f. 17v f. 18r | |
f. 18v, f. 19r | f. 18v f. 19r |
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f. 18v, f. 19r | f. 18v f. 19r | |
f. 19v, f. 20r | f. 19v f. 20r | |
f. 20v, f. 21r | f. 20v f. 21r | |
f. 21v, f. 22r | f. 21v f. 22r | |
f. 22v, f. 23r | f. 22v f. 23r | |
f. 23v, f. 24r | f. 23v f. 24r | |
f. 24v, f. 25r | f. 24v f. 25r | |
f. 25v | f. 25v |