Manuscript Identifiers

Collection:UPenn Ms. Coll. 390
Item:2377
Repository:Rare Book & Manuscript Library
Institution:University of Pennsylvania
Location:Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Catalog:Poleman
Item:1335

Contents

Work 1 (complete)

Locus:f. 1r–82v
Author:Kṛṣṇa Dvaipāyana Vyāsa
Title:Bhāgavatapurāṇa
Part:Skandha 4
Incipit: f. 1v
maitreya uvāca .. ..
manos tu śatarupāyāṁ tisraḥ kanyāś ca jajñire ..
ākūtir devahūtiś ca prasūtir itiviśrutāḥ ..1.. (Anuṣṭubh) ( BhP. 4.1.1 )
Explicit: f. 82r
etad yaḥ ś!ū!<ṛ>ṇuyād rājan rājñāṁ haryarpitātmanāṁ .
āyur !d!<>dhanaṁ yaśaḥ svasti gatim aiśvaryam āpnuyāt ..30.. ( BhP. 4.31.31 ) (Anuṣṭubh)
Final rubric: f. 82r
.. iti śrībhāgavate mahāpurāṇe caturthaskaṁdhe aṣṭādaśasahasyāṁ saṁhitāyāṁ pracetasopākhyānaṁ nāmaikatriṁśo <'>dhyāyaḥ .
caturthaskaṁdhaḥ samāptaḥ .. ..
Colophon:none
Filiation:The seven manuscripts in the University of Pennsylvania's Collection of Indic Manuscripts, Items 2373–2379 (UPenn 2373, UPenn 2374, UPenn 2375, UPenn 2376, UPenn 2377, UPenn 2378, UPenn 2379) constitute a set of manuscripts of several skandhas of the Bhāgavatapurāṇa with Śrīdharasvāmin's Bhāgavatabhāvārthadīpikā written in the same style on the same material, all by the same hand except that a second hand has written UPenn 2376 and parts of UPenn 2374 and UPenn 2377, and a third hand has written a small part of UPenn 2373.
Language:Sanskrit in Devanāgarī script

Work 2 (complete)

Locus:f. 1r–82v
Author:Śrīdharasvāmin
Part:ad skandha 4
Incipit: f. 1v
athaikatriṁśatādhyāyair visargas turya !i!<ī>ryate ..
visargas tv īśvarādhīnai<r> !b!<b>rahmamanvādibhiḥ kṛtaḥ . (Anuṣṭubh)
tatra tu prathame <'>dhyāye manukanyānvayāḥ pṛthak .
varṇyaṁte yatra yajñādimūrttibhiḥ prabhavo hareḥ . (Anuṣṭubh) ( Kṛṣṇaśaṅkara Śāstrin 1965 vol. 4, p. 1, 4.1 intro. )
manukanyānvayaṁ vistareṇa vaktum āha
manos tv iti ..
cakārāt dvau putrau ca ..1.. ( Kṛṣṇaśaṅkara Śāstrin 1965 vol. 4, p. 1, ad 4.1.1 )
Explicit: f. 82r
rājñāṁ caritam iti śeṣa<ḥ> ..30.. ( Kṛṣṇaśaṅkara Śāstrin 1965 vol. 4, p. 805, ad 4.31.31 )
Final rubric: f. 8
iti śrībhāgavate caturthaskaṁdhe !ś!<s>amāptam iti ..
Colophon: f. 8
.. iti li0 harīvaśaṁ pāḍe kāśī asthāne ..
Language:Sanskrit in Devanāgarī script

Physical description

Form:Folia
Material:Country-made paper
Extent:82 folia
Dimension:15.1 x 37.4 cm (h x w)
Foliation: Foliated in the upper left and lower right margins on the verso of each folio, except the last which is numbered on the recto (f. xxxxxr).
   Formula:1–82
   Signatures:bhā0 ca0 is written above the folio number in the upper left margin on each folio. Above the folio number in the lower right margin, rāma is written on f. 1vf. 12v, f. 14v, f. 16vf. 21v, f. 24vf. 25v, f. 30v, f. 39vf. 40v, f. 65vf. 71v, f. 82r.
Collation: Single folia
Condition:Good; the paper is very brown and stained, and the edges are frayed. There are black ink blotches on f. 29r, and f. 31r, a spill on f. 60v, and a smudge on f. 66r.
Binding: Unbound
Seal: A circular stamp on the right of f. 1r and f. 82v reads Library University Pennsylvania.
Layout:Written in 9–18 lines per page in an hourglass arrangement with commentary above and below the base text.

Hands

Hand 1:Two hands have written the manuscript.
Hand 2:The first hand has written f. 1vf. 64v and f. 72rf. 82r in clear, bold, regular characters, erect or tilted forward or backward, in wavy lines.
Hand 3:The second hand has written f. 65rf. 71v in taller, erect characters and does not fail to put the signature rāma in the lower right margin. The same hand has written UPenn 2376.
Additions:

The rubric on f. 1r, indicating the number of the skandha, is written in a different hand.

Mistakes are covered over with yellow, extensively on f. 31vf. 37v, written over, blocked out, or indicated by short vertical strokes above the syllable in question. There are marginal corrections in different hands, some, e.g. on f. 27v, f. 76r, lengthy.

Decoration

Color:Some folios are dyed yellow. Red spots are put in the middle of the left and right margin on some folios, e.g. f. 28v, f. 46v, f. 51r, f. 51vf. 53v, f. 58v, f. 61v, and f. 65v. Some double daṇḍas, the space between some double daṇḍas, some final rubrics, some introductions of speakers, and some lines in red. Orange powder is rubbed over some colophons, some introductions of speakers, and some numbers. Yellow is used to cover mistakes.
Border:Two sets of vertical double black lines filled with a red band rule the left and right margins of the text on each page. The red band is missing on f. 20r, f. 28r, f. 45rf. 45v, and f. 81rf. 81v

History

Origin:The colophon states that the manuscript was written the scribe as harīvaśaṁ pāḍe in kāśī. No date is provided. 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.

Subject headings

SubjectLC:Puranas – Bhāgavatapurāṇa – 4. skandha.
SubjectLC:Manuscripts, Sanskrit – 19th century.
SubjectLC:Manuscripts – India – 19th century.
SubjectSL:Purāṇa. Ancient Cosmogony, Genealogy, Narrative

Record history

Revised: 24 April 2012

Facsimile  (work )

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Transcription (text structure)


Mūla:
caturtha
śrīlakṣmīnṛsiṁhāya namaḥ .. ..
maitreya uvāca .. ..
manos tu śatarupāyāṁ tisraḥ kanyāś ca jajñire ..
ākūtir devahūtiś ca prasūtir itiviśrutāḥ ..1.. (Anuṣṭubh) ( BhP. 4.1.1 )
<...>
<...>
etad yaḥ ś!ū!<ṛ>ṇuyād rājan rājñāṁ haryarpitātmanāṁ .
āyur !d!<>dhanaṁ yaśaḥ svasti gatim aiśvaryam āpnuyāt ..30.. ( BhP. 4.31.31 ) (Anuṣṭubh) < flower >
.. iti śrībhāgavate mahāpurāṇe caturthaskaṁdhe aṣṭādaśasahasyāṁ saṁhitāyāṁ pracetasopākhyānaṁ nāmaikatriṁśo <'>dhyāyaḥ . < flower >
caturthaskaṁdhaḥ samāptaḥ .. .. < flower >
.. ..

Commentary:
śrīgaṇeśāya namaḥ .. ..
śrīparamahṁsāsvādita caraṇakamalacinmakaraṁdāya bhaktajanamānasanivāsāya śrīrāmāya namaḥ ..0..
śrīkṛṣṇāya namaḥ .. ..
athaikatriṁśatādhyāyair visargas turya !i!<ī>ryate ..
visargas tv īśvarādhīnai<r> !b!<b>rahmamanvādibhiḥ kṛtaḥ . (Anuṣṭubh)
tatra tu prathame <'>dhyāye manukanyānvayāḥ pṛthak .
varṇyaṁte yatra yajñādimūrttibhiḥ prabhavo hareḥ . (Anuṣṭubh) ( Kṛṣṇaśaṅkara Śāstrin 1965 vol. 4, p. 1, 4.1 intro. )
manukanyānvayaṁ vistareṇa vaktum āha
manos tv iti ..
cakārāt dvau putrau ca ..1.. ( Kṛṣṇaśaṅkara Śāstrin 1965 vol. 4, p. 1, ad 4.1.1 )
<...>
<...>
rājñāṁ caritam iti śeṣa<ḥ> ..30.. ( Kṛṣṇaśaṅkara Śāstrin 1965 vol. 4, p. 805, ad 4.31.31 )
iti śrībhāgavate caturthaskaṁdhe !ś!<s>amāptam iti .. < flower >
.. iti li0 harīvaśaṁ pāḍe kāśī asthāne .. < flower >
..