Manuscript Identifiers

Collection:UPenn Ms. Coll. 390
Item:2618
Repository:Rare Book & Manuscript Library
Institution:University of Pennsylvania
Location:Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Catalog:Poleman
Item:1346

Contents

Work 1

Locus:f. 1v-40v (complete)
Author:śrīdharasvāmin
Title:bhāgavatabhāvārtha-dīpikā
Part:skandha 2
Incipit: f. 1v:
dvitīye tu daśādhyāye śrībhāgavatamāditaḥ ||
(BhP.S.BhD. 02.1.0ef Sb02_001.tif )
Final rubric: f. 40v:
iti śrībhāvarthadīpikāyāṃ dvitīyaskaṃdhe daśamo{'}dhyāyaḥ || 10 || samāpte†?†yaṃ dvitīyaskaṃdhavyāraṇyeti ||
(vf. BhP.S.BhD. 02.10.51.1-4 Sb02_507.tif. )
Filiation:Filiated with UP2620, UP2621, UP2622, and UP2627; likely filiated to: UP2617, UP2623, and UP2624; possibly filiated to: UP2626, UP2628, and UP2619.
Language:Sanskrit in Devanagari script

Work 2

Locus:f. 1v-40v (complete)
Author:kṛṣṇa dvaipāyana vyāsa
Title:bhāgavatapurāṇa
Part:skandha 2
Incipit: f. 1v:
śrīśuka uvāca || varīyān eṣa te praśnaḥ kṛtāṃ lokahitaṃ nṛpa ||
(BhP. 02.01.1ab Sb02_001.tif )
Final rubric: f. 40v:
iti śrībhāgavate mahāpurāne dvitīyaskaṃdhe daśamodhyāya ||10|| || samāptoyaṃ dvitīyaskaṃdhaḥ ||
(cf. BhP. 02.10.51 Sb02_507.tif )
Filiation:Filiated with UP2620, UP2621, UP2622, and UP2627; likely filiated to: UP2617, UP2623, and UP2624; possibly filiated to: UP2626, UP2628, and UP2619.
Language:Sanskrit in Devanagari script

Physical description

Form:folia
Material:country paper
Extent:42
Dimension:21.5 x 31.6 cm
Foliation:two additional blank folios at the beginning and end of the ms. rendering 42 ff. total. The number "22" is written in the bottom right corner of f. 21v; there is textual consistency with f. 22r, which follows. The writting is upside down at f. 25r.
Collation:single folia
formula: i, 1-19, 22[a], 22[b]-40, ii
Condition:very good; some worm eaten pages, though not generally affecting the text. Some akṣaras are damaged in the commentary ff. 18r-23v. The writting is upside down on f. 25r:
Layout:fourteen to twenty-three lines.

Decoration

Color:Double daṇḍas and every syllable of colophons in red. Mistakes covered over with yellow. A few marginal corrections. The text continues into the right margin on many folios.

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

f. 1v:
oṃ namo bhagavte vāsudevāya || oṃ dvitīye tu daśādhyāye śrībhāgavatamāditaḥ ||
(BhP.S.BhD. 02.1.0ef Sb02_001.tif ) ...
f. 40v:
... iti śrībhāvarthadīpikāyāṃ dvitīyaskaṃdhe daśamo{'}dhyāyaḥ || 10 || samāpte†?†yaṃ dvitīyaskaṃdhavyāraṇyeti || śrīmadbhāgavataṃ yena svabrahmamukhato [di]{mi}taṃ ||
bramanāradayo proktaṃ taṃ vaṃde gurumīśvaram || 1 ||
(vf. BhP.S.BhD. 02.10.51.1-4 Sb02_507.tif. )
f. 1v:
śrīśuka uvāca || varīyān eṣa te praśnaḥ kṛtāṃ lokahitaṃ nṛpa ||
(BhP. 02.01.1ab Sb02_001.tif ) ... ...
tubhyaṃ ca nārada bhṛśaṃ bhagavān vivṛddha ||19||
(2.7.19cd) ... ||21
(2.7.20) ... ||22
(2.7.21) ... ||23
(2.7.22) ...
f. 40v:
iti śrībhāgavate mahāpurāne dvitīyaskaṃdhe daśamodhyāya ||10|| || samāptoyaṃ dvitīyaskaṃdhaḥ ||
(cf. BhP. 02.10.51 Sb02_507.tif )
Record revised:???date mo.??? 2010