Manuscript Identifiers

Collection:UPenn Ms. Coll. 390
Item:2184
Repository:Rare Book & Manuscript Library
Institution:University of Pennsylvania
Location:Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Catalog:Poleman
Item:1365

Contents

Work 1 (complete)

Locus:ff. 1r–12v
Author:Unknown
Title:Bhāgavataprathamaśloka
Cover rubric: f. 1r
ādyabhāgavataślokaṭīkāraṁbhaḥ ..
Incipit: f. 1v
janmādy asyeti ..
paraṁ atiśayena satyaṁ sarvakāladeśavartinaṁ parameśvaraṁ dhīmahi dhyāyema .
baru[?][?]vacanena kāladeśaparaṁ parāsaṁprāptānsarvāne bajī vānsvātaraṁgī kṛtya svaśikṣayātān dhyānam upadiśan(i)n eva[?]krīḍīkaroti .
anenāthāto brahmajijñāsetsati[?]sūtrārtha
Explicit: [[facs=f12r, locus=f. 12r]]
tatra tatraiva bhaktyanukūlenārthena svabhaktavartānaṁdanārthaṁ tatpratikūlenārthenāsurasaṁghavyāmohanārthaṁ mohinītvaṁ ca jñeyaṁ .
na cāsya śāstrasya sākṣād bhaktirasamayasya tattatpratīkūlārthaprasūtir asaṁgateti vācyaṁ .
sarvaśaktiparipurṇasya sākṣād bhagavata ivāsyāpi vividhādhikārisvasvahṛdayānurūpārthagrāhaṇārthaṁ sarvaśaktiliṁgaprakāśakatvasyaucityān mallānam aśanir ity atra .
virāḍ aviduṣām itivad iti sarvaṁ samaṁjasaṁ ..1..
Final rubric: [[facs=f12v, locus=f. 12v]]
ādyabhāgavataślokaṭīkāsaṁpūrṇā
Colophon:none
Note:The text of the manuscript does not coincide with any of the eleven commentaries in Kṛṣṇaśaṅkara Śāstrin's edition.
Language:Sanskrit in Devanāgarī script

Physical description

Form:Folia
Material:European paper
Watermark:Watermarks on folios 3–7; see especially the crown that extends across folios 5–7, mainly on 6; incidentally, these are also the folios (3–7) in which the ink bleeds through, so it is obviously a different stock. There is also a watermark on folio 10, but it is entirely different. Some kind of design with lettering.
Extent:12 folia
Dimension:10.2 x 20.2 cm (h x w)
Foliation: Foliated in the lower right margin on the verso of each folio. An additional number is written in the upper left on f. 3v, f. 7v–f. 9v, f. 11v–f. 12v, and in the lower left on f. 10v.
   Formula:1–12
Collation: Single and paried folios.
Formula:1–2, 3, 4, 5, 6–7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12
Condition:Very good though some folios are brittle. The text on folios 3–7 shows through from one side to the other. The edges of ff. 3 and 12 are broken.
Binding: Unbound
Seal: A circular stamp on the right of f. 1r and on the lower right of [[facs=f12v, locus=f. 12v]] reads Library University Pennsylvania.
Layout:Written in 9–11 lines per page.

Hands

Hand 1:Written in clear, bold, regular characters tilted forward in straight lines with a ragged right margin.
Hand 2:A second hand in thinner lines and lighter ink adds front and back cover rubrics on f. 1r and f. 12v.
Additions:

Mistakes written over. Marginal corrections.

History

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.

Subject headings

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

Record history

Revised: 15 April 2012

Facsimile  (work )

Whole image     Individual pages
f. 1r     f. 1r  
f. 1v, f. 2r     f. 1v  f. 2r  
f. 2v, f. 3r     f. 2v  f. 3r  
f. 3v, f. 4r     f. 3v  f. 4r  
f. 4v, f. 5r     f. 4v  f. 5r  
f. 5v, f. 6r     f. 5v  f. 6r  
f. 6v, f. 7r     f. 6v  f. 7r  
f. 7v, f. 8r     f. 7v  f. 8r  
f. 8v, f. 9r     f. 8v  f. 9r  
f. 9v, f. 10r     f. 9v  f. 10r  
f. 10v, f. 11r     f. 10v  


Transcription (text structure)

ādyabhāgavataślokaṭīkāraṁbhaḥ ..
śrīgaṇeśāya namaḥ ..
śrūgopālāya namaḥ ..
janmādy asyeti ..
paraṁ atiśayena satyaṁ sarvakāladeśavartinaṁ parameśvaraṁ dhīmahi dhyāyema .
baru[?][?]vacanena kāladeśaparaṁ parāsaṁprāptānsarvāne bajī vānsvātaraṁgī kṛtya svaśikṣayātān dhyānam upadiśan(i)n eva[?]krīḍīkaroti .
anenāthāto brahmajijñāsetsati[?]sūtrārtha
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tatra tatraiva bhaktyanukūlenārthena svabhaktavartānaṁdanārthaṁ tatpratikūlenārthenāsurasaṁghavyāmohanārthaṁ mohinītvaṁ ca jñeyaṁ .
na cāsya śāstrasya sākṣād bhaktirasamayasya tattatpratīkūlārthaprasūtir asaṁgateti vācyaṁ .
sarvaśaktiparipurṇasya sākṣād bhagavata ivāsyāpi vividhādhikārisvasvahṛdayānurūpārthagrāhaṇārthaṁ sarvaśaktiliṁgaprakāśakatvasyaucityān mallānam aśanir ity atra .
virāḍ aviduṣām itivad iti sarvaṁ samaṁjasaṁ ..1..
bhāgavataśloke [[?]] ādyaṭīkā
ādyabhāgavataślokaṭīkāsaṁpūrṇā