Manuscript Identifiers

Collection:UPenn Ms. Coll. 390
Item:2375
Repository:Rare Book & Manuscript Library
Institution:University of Pennsylvania
Location:Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Catalog:Poleman
Item:1333

Contents

Work 1

Locus:f. 1v-43v (complete)
Author:śrīdharasvāmin
Part:ad skandha 2
Incipit: f. 1v:
dvitīye tu daśādhyāyai{ḥ} śrībhāgavatamāditaḥ |
udeśalakṣaṇoktibhyāṃ saṃkṣepeṇo pavarṇyate ||
(cf. BhP.S.BhD. 2.1.0e-h Sb02_001.tif )
Explicit: f. 43v:
īkṣaṃtām i{c}chyā saṃtaḥ kṣamaṃtāṃ mama sāhasam ||
mayā hi svīyabodhāya kṛtam etan na sarvvataḥ || || samāpto yaṃ grathaḥ ||
(cf. BhP.S.BhD. 2.10.51ff-4 Sb02_507.tif )
Filiation:UP2374, UP2376, 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

Work 2

Locus:f. 1v-74r (complete)
Author:kṛṣṇa dvaipāyana vyāsa
Title:bhāgavatapurāṇa
Part:skandha 1
Incipit: f. 1v:
śrīśukauvāca || || varīyān eṣa te praśnaḥ kṛto lokahitaṃ yata(
ātmavitsammataḥ ...
(BhP. 02.1.1a-c Sb02_001.tif )
Explicit: śūtauvāca || || rājñā parikṣitā pṛṣṭo yad avocan mahāmuniḥ |
tad vo bhidhāsye śṛṇuta rājñaḥ p[ṛ]{ra}śnānusārataḥ ||[1]{51}||
(BhP. 02.10.51 Sb02_507.tif )
Final rubric: f. 43v:
iti śrītāgavate mahāpurāṇe [divtā]{dvitīya}skaṃdhe aṣṭādaśasāhasyāṃ saṃhitāyāṃ daśamodhyāyaḥ ||
(cf. BhP. 02.10.51 Sb02_507.tif )
Filiation:UP2374, UP2376, 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:43
Dimension:15.1 x 37.4 cm
Collation:single folia
Condition:fair-good; the paper is very brown.
Binding: Single, dark wooden board serves as a base for the text.
Layout:nine to thirteen lines per leaf.

Hands

Hand 1:Marignal corrections and some lenghty additions in different hands. Some black blotchs. The ink is wearing off in some places, but the text is still legible.
Additions:

f. 1r:
addition of note skaṃdha 1, 2, 3, 4, 8, 9, 11. May indicate a filiation of mss of some kind.

f. 43v:
Long addition of notation in bottom of folio ending with:śrīkṛṣṇapādāṃ bujame vaciṃtayankalevaraṃtya†???† samukha he ||2||

Decoration

Color:Some folios colored yellow and some folios show signs of having been colored yellow once. Most double daṇḍas, the space between some double daṇḍas, some invocations, some introductions of speakers, some colophons, every other letter of some colophon in red. Mistakes covered over with yellow or written over or indicated by vertical strokes above the syllable or part of the syllable in question.

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:
śrīrāmacaṃdrasahāya || dvitīye tu daśādhyāyai{ḥ} śrībhāgavatamāditaḥ |
udeśalakṣaṇoktibhyāṃ saṃkṣepeṇo pavarṇyate || ...
(cf. BhP.S.BhD. 2.1.0e-h Sb02_001.tif ) mū:
oṃ namo bhagavate śrīvāsudevāya || || || śrīśukauvāca || || varīyān eṣa te praśnaḥ kṛto lokahitaṃ yata(
ātmavitsammataḥ ...
(BhP. 02.1.1a-c Sb02_001.tif )
f. 43v:
Commentary:
... īkṣaṃtām i{c}chyā saṃtaḥ kṣamaṃtāṃ mama sāhasam ||
mayā hi svīyabodhāya kṛtam etan na sarvvataḥ || || samāpto yaṃ grathaḥ ||
(cf. BhP.S.BhD. 2.10.51ff-4 Sb02_507.tif ) mū:
śūtauvāca || || rājñā parikṣitā pṛṣṭo yad avocan mahāmuniḥ |
tad vo bhidhāsye śṛṇuta rājñaḥ p[ṛ]{ra}śnānusārataḥ ||[1]{51}||
(BhP. 02.10.51 Sb02_507.tif ) iti śrītāgavate mahāpurāṇe [divtā]{dvitīya}skaṃdhe aṣṭādaśasāhasyāṃ saṃhitāyāṃ daśamodhyāyaḥ || śrīrāmacaṃdrasahād ||
(cf. BhP. 02.10.51 Sb02_507.tif )
Record revised:???date mo.??? 2010