Collection: | UPenn Ms. Coll. 390 |
Item: | 2374 |
Repository: | Rare Book & Manuscript Library |
Institution: | University of Pennsylvania |
Location: | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America |
Catalog: | Poleman |
Item: | 1332 |
Locus: | f. 1r–74v |
Author: | Kṛṣṇa Dvaipāyana Vyāsa |
Title: | Bhāgavatapurāṇa |
Part: | Skandha 1 |
Cover rubric: |
f. 1r
prathama (skaṁdha 1 2 3 4 8 9 11) |
Incipit: |
f. 1v
janmādy asya yato <'>nvayād itarataś cārtheṣv abhijñaḥ svarāṭ tene brahma hṛdā ya ādikavaye muhyaṁti yat sūrayaḥ . tejovārimṛdāṁ yathā vinimayo yatra trisargo <'>mṛṣā dhāmnā svena sadā nirastakuhakaṁ satyaṁ paraṁ dhīmahi ..1.. ( BhP. 1.1.1 ) (Śārdūlavikrīḍita) |
Explicit: |
f. 74r
sūta uvāca .. .. evam ābhāṣitaḥ pṛṣṭaḥ sa rājñā ślakṣṇayā girā . pratyabhāṣata dharmmajño bhagavān bādarāyaṇiḥ..40.. (Anuṣṭubh) ( BhP. 1.19.40 ) |
Final rubric: |
f. 74r
iti śrībhāgavate mahāpurāne prathamaskaṁdhe śukāgamanaṁ nāma ekonaviṁśo<'>dhyāyaḥ .. |
Colophon: | none |
Note: | The addition of skaṁdha 1 2 3 4 8 9 11 to the the rubric indicates that the manuscript was previously joined in a single item consisting of the enumerated sections. |
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 |
Locus: | f. 1v–74r |
Author: | Śrīdharasvāmin |
Part: | ad skandha 1 |
Incipit: |
f. 1v
õ namaḥ paramahaṁsāsvāditacaraṇakamalacinmakaraṁdāya bhaktajanamānasanivāsāya śrīrāmacaṁdrāya .. vāgīśā yasya vadane lakṣmīr ya(sya) ca vakṣasi . yasyāste hṛdaye saṁvit taṁ nṛsiṁham ahaṁ bhaje ..1.. ( Kṛṣṇaśaṅkara Śāstrin 1965 vol. 1, p. 1, ad 1.1.1 ) (Anuṣṭubh) |
Explicit: |
f. 74r
evam aho ityādikayā ślakṣṇayā madhurayā girā ābhāṣitaḥ abhimukhīkṛtaḥ pṛṣṭaś ca .. ( Kṛṣṇaśaṅkara Śāstrin 1965 vol. 1, p. 809, ad 1.19.40 ) āryyaṁ dharmajam āhatārim avanau kṛtvā parīkṣin nṛpaṁ !vra!<bra>hmāstrād abhira!ṁ!<>kṣitaṁ kali[yā]ja(yā)khyātaṁ ca kṛtvā bhuvi . aṁte yaḥ śukarūpataḥ svaparamajñānopadeśena taṁ śāpād āvadamuṁ namāmi paramānaṁdākṛtiṁ mā[ṁ]dhavaṁ ..0.. ( Kṛṣṇaśaṅkara Śāstrin 1965 vol. 1, p. 809, final verse following 1.19.40 ) (Śārdūlavikrīḍita) |
Final rubric: |
f. 74r
iti prathme ekonaviṁśatimo <'>dhyāyaḥ .. .. [:]..1.. |
Colophon: | none |
Language: | Sanskrit in Devanāgarī script |
Form: | Folia |
Material: | Country-made paper |
Extent: | 74 folia |
Dimension: | 15.1 x 37.5 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. 74r ). The front and back, f. 1r and f. 74v , are blank except for the addition on the front. |
Formula: | 1–74 |
Signatures: | bhā0 pra0 is written above the folio number in the upper left margin on each folio (pra0 bhā0 on f. 7v, f. 14v; prathama on f. 57v). Above the folio number in the lower right margin, rāma is written on f. 1v–f. 8v, f. 10v, f. 14v, f. 45v–f. 49v, f. 53v–f. 55v, f. 58v, f. 63v–f. 69v (the same is written in red below the number in the left margin on f. 27v), and śrīkṛṣṇa on f. 59v. |
Collation: | Single folia |
Condition: | Fair to good. The ink is worn and faint some places, but the text is still legible. The paper is very brown and brittle. |
Binding: | Unbound |
Seal: | A circular stamp on the right of f. 1r and f. 74v reads Library University Pennsylvania. |
Layout: | Written in 7–16 lines per page in an hourglass arrangement with commentary above and below the base text. |
Hand 1: | Written in clear, bold, regular characters, some tilted forward, some backward, in wavy lines. |
Hand 2: | A second hand has written f. 53r–f. 55v, f. 63r–f. 68v in clear, bold, taller and erect characters in straight lines. |
Additions: |
To the rubric prathama on the front (f. 1r) was added in a different hand skaṁdha 1 2 3 4 8 9 11. Mistakes are covered over with yellow, written over, or bloched out with black. There are marignal corrections in different hands throughout. |
Color: | Some folios show faint remains of having been dyed yellow. Numbers, most double daṇḍas, the space between some double daṇḍas, some invocations, some introductions of speakers, some final rubrics, every other letter of some final rubrics, and daṇḍas between the letters of some colophons are written in red. 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. |
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: | Puranas – Bhāgavatapurāṇa – 1. skandha. |
SubjectLC: | Manuscripts, Sanskrit – 19th century. |
SubjectLC: | Manuscripts – India – 19th century. |
SubjectSL: | Purāṇa. Ancient Cosmogony, Genealogy, Narrative |