Manuscript Identifiers

Collection:UPenn Ms. Coll. 390
Item:2376
Repository:Rare Book & Manuscript Library
Institution:University of Pennsylvania
Location:Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Catalog:Poleman
Item:1334

Contents

Work 1

Locus:f. 1v-118r (complete)
Author:śrīdharasvāmin
Part:ad skandha 3
Incipit: f. 1v:
tṛtīye tu trayastriṃśad adhyāyaiḥ sargavarṇanam ||
(cf. BhP.S.BhD. 3.1.0-1ab Sb03_0001.tif )
Explicit: f. 118r:
Final rubric:iti śrībāgavate bhāvārthadīpikāyāṃ śrīdharasvāmiviravitāyāṃ tṛtīyaskaṃdhe trayaḥ triṃśodyāyaḥ || || samāptam || ||
(cf. BhP.S.BhD. 3.33.37 Sb03_1240.tif )
Colophon: f. 118r:
likhitaṃ balirāmavanikakāśivāśi ||1||1
Filiation:UP2374, UP2375, UP2377, UP2378, UP2379, all of which have clear textual filiation; and possibly with UP2373. Compare the "bha" and the florrishes for the rephas.
Language:Sanskrit in Devanagari script

Work 2

Locus:f. 1v-118r (complete)
Author:kṛṣṇa dvaipāyana vyāsa
Title:bhāgavatapurāṇa
Part:skandha 3
Incipit: f. 1v:
śrīśukauvāca || evam etat purā pṛṣṭo maitreyo bhagavān kila |
(BhP. 03.1.1ab Sb03_0001.tif )
Explicit: f. 118r:
... bhagavati kṛtadhīḥ supar[sma]{ṇa}ketāv upalabhate bhagavatpadāraviṃdaṃ ||36||
(cf. BhP. 03.33.37cd Sb03_1240.tif )
Final rubric: f. 118r:
iti śrībhagavate mahāpurāṇe tṛtīyaskaṃdhe kāpile metrayaḥ triśatamodhyāyaḥ || ||
(cf. BhP.03.33.37 Sb03_1240.tif )
Filiation:UP2374, UP2375, UP2377, UP2378, UP2379, all of which have clear textual filiation; and possibly with UP2373. Compare, e.g., "bha" akṣaras in all three, which looks often more like "ta" or "la"
Language:Sanskrit in Devanagari script

Physical description

Form:folia
Material:country paper
Extent:118
Dimension:14.9 x 37.3 cm
Collation:single folia
Condition:fair-good; the paper is very brown and some folios are badly stained. The ink is wearing off in some places, but the text is still legible.
Layout:nine to thirteen lines per leaf.

Hands

Hand 1:Marignal corrections in different hands. Some black blotchs.

Decoration

Color:Some folios colored yellow and some folios show signs of having been colored yellow once. Some numbers, the area over some numbers, some double daṇḍas, the space between some double daṇḍas, some introductions of speakers, some colophons, every other letter of some colophon in red. Orange powder rubbed in over some colophons. Mistakes covered over with yellow, crossed through, 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

f. 1v:
Commentary:
śrīgaṇeśāye namaḥ || || oṃ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya || tṛtīye tu trayastriṃśad adhyāyaiḥ sargavarṇanam || ...
(cf. BhP.S.BhD. 3.1.0-1ab Sb03_0001.tif ) mū:
oṃ namo bhagavat vāsudevāya || śrīśukauvāca || evam etat purā pṛṣṭo maitreyo bhagavān kila |
(BhP. 03.1.1ab Sb03_0001.tif )
Commentary:
... iti śrībāgavate bhāvārthadīpikāyāṃ śrīdharasvāmiviravitāyāṃ tṛtīyaskaṃdhe trayaḥ triṃśodyāyaḥ || || samāptam || || śubhamaskaṃ || ||
(cf. BhP.S.BhD. 3.33.37 Sb03_1240.tif )
f. 118r:
likhitaṃ balirāmavanikakāśivāśi ||1||1 mū:
f. 118r:
... bhagavati kṛtadhīḥ supar[sma]{ṇa}ketāv upalabhate bhagavatpadāraviṃdaṃ ||36||
(cf. BhP. 03.33.37cd Sb03_1240.tif ) iti śrībhagavate mahāpurāṇe tṛtīyaskaṃdhe kāpile metrayaḥ triśatamodhyāyaḥ || || śubham || || ca ||1
(cf. BhP. 03.33.37 Sb03_1240.tif )
Record revised:???date mo.??? 2010