Manuscript Identifiers

Collection:UPenn Ms. Coll. 390
Item:2609
Repository:Rare Book & Manuscript Library
Institution:University of Pennsylvania
Location:Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Catalog:Poleman
Item:1311

Contents

Work 1 (incomplete)

Locus:f. 1r–40v
Author:Kṛṣṇa Dvaipāyana Vyāsa
Title:Bhāgavatapurāṇa
Part:Skandha 7
Rubric: f. 1r
pustu bhāgavatasaptamaskaṁdhaḥ patrā 41
Incipit: f. 1v
rājovāca
samaḥ priyaḥ śuhṛdbrahman bhūtānāṁ bhagavān svayaṁ
indrasyārthe kathaṁ daityān avadhīd viṣamo yathā 1 (Anuṣṭubh) ( BhP. 7.1.1 )
Explicit: f. 40r
iti dākṣāyaṇīnāṁ te pṛthagvaṁśā prakīrtitāḥ
devāsuramanuṣyādyā lokā yatra carācarā 81 ( BhP. 7.15.80 BhP. 7.15.53 has three lines in the digital edition while this manuscript repeats the last line of the 7.15.52 followed by the first line of verse 53 as verse 53 and numbers the last two lines 54. ) (Anuṣṭubh)
Final rubric: f. 40r
iti śrībhāgavate mahāpurāṇe saptamaskaṁdhe sadācāranirṇayo nāma paṁcadaśo dhyāyaḥ15
Colophon: f. 40r
miti māghasraḥ vadi 4 saṁvata 1899 kā liṣitaṁ bhagavaddāsapāṭhārthaṁ
Colophon: f. 40v
miti māghasraḥ vadi 4 saṁvata 1899 kā liṣitaṁ bhagavaddāsapāṭhārthaṁ
Note:The manuscript contains the seventh skandha of the Bhāgavatapurāṇa but is missing folio 11 containing BhP. 7.4.38a–41b.
Language:Sanskrit in Devanāgarī script

Physical description

Form:Folia
Material:Country paper
Extent:39 folia
Dimension:14.6–14cm x 30–31.6 cm (h x w)
Foliation: Foliated in the upper left and lower right margins on the verso of each folio. The last folio is correctly numbered 40 on the recto , and erroneously 41 on the verso .
   Formula:1–10, 12–40
Collation: Single folios. F. 26 consists of two pieces of paper pasted together back to back.
Condition:Good, minor worm holes. The left margin of f. 4 is damaged but the text is intact. The bottom of f. 5r, top of f. 5v is repaired with a pasted strip of paper.
Binding: Unbound
Seal: A circular stamp on the right of f. 1r reads Library University Pennsylvania. A white label on which is hand-written ‘2609’ is pasted beside it.
Layout:Written in 10–12 lines per page. F. 36v has only 5 lines; ink from the recto bleeds through.

Hands

Summary:With the missing f. 11, where there is a gap, the paper changes from local to imported, the layout changes from 9 lines per page to 11 lines per page, and the hand changes to smaller neater writing.
Hand 1:The pen changes to a broader nib and the size of characters increases from f. 2r, line 7f. 2v.
Additions:

There are marginal corrections and lengthy additions.

Decoration

Color:A few pages, f. 3r, line 9f. 5v, line 6, are written in brown ink. Mistakes are covered over with yellow. Either reddish brown powder is rubbed in over most final rubrics and introductions of speakers.

History

Origin:The colophon states that the manuscript was completed on the fourth tithi of the dark fortnight in the month of mārgaśīrṣa in the year 1899 of the saṁvat era, which corresponds with 21 December 1842 A.D. for the recitation of BagavaddAsa.
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. 12r     f. 10v  f. 12r  
f. 12v, f. 13r     f. 12v  f. 13r  
f. 13v, f. 14r     f. 13v  f. 14r  
f. 14v, f. 15r     f. 14v  f. 15r  
f. 15v, f. 16r     f. 15v  f. 16r  
f. 16v, f. 17r     f. 16v  f. 17r  
f. 17v, f. 18r     f. 17v  f. 18r  
f. 18v, f. 19r     f. 18v  f. 19r  
f. 19v, f. 20r     f. 19v  f. 20r  
f. 20v, f. 21r     f. 20v  f. 21r  
f. 21v, f. 22r     f. 21v  f. 22r  
f. 22v, f. 23r     f. 22v  f. 23r  
f. 23v, f. 24r     f. 23v  f. 24r  
f. 24v, f. 25r     f. 24v  f. 25r  
f. 25v, f. 26r     f. 25v  f. 26r  
f. 26v, f. 27r     f. 26v  f. 27r  
f. 27v, f. 28r     f. 27v  f. 28r  
f. 28v, f. 29r     f. 28v  f. 29r  
f. 29v, f. 30r     f. 29v  f. 30r  
f. 30v, f. 31r     f. 30v  f. 31r  
f. 31v, f. 32r     f. 31v  f. 32r  
f. 32v, f. 33r     f. 32v  f. 33r  
f. 33v, f. 34r     f. 33v  f. 34r  
f. 34v, f. 35r     f. 34v  f. 35r  
f. 35v, f. 36r     f. 35v  f. 36r  
f. 36v, f. 37r     f. 36v  f. 37r  
f. 37v, f. 38r     f. 37v  f. 38r  
f. 38v, f. 39r     f. 38v  f. 39r  
f. 39v, f. 40r     f. 39v  f. 40r  
f. 40v     f. 40v  


Transcription (text structure)

pustu bhāgavatasaptamaskaṁdhaḥ patrā 41
śrīmate rāmānujāya namaḥ
rājovāca
samaḥ priyaḥ śuhṛdbrahman bhūtānāṁ bhagavān svayaṁ
indrasyārthe kathaṁ daityān avadhīd viṣamo yathā 1 (Anuṣṭubh) ( BhP. 7.1.1 )
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āsī<ṇaḥ paryaṭannaśnan śayānaḥ prapiban bruvan .> ( BhP. 7.4.38 ) (Anuṣṭubh)
< Folio 11, containing BhP. 7.4.38a–41b, is missing. The fact that fewer than 3.5 stanzas are missing, while the folia average about 15 stanzas, is explained by the change in hand and paper: the manuscript is a composite of sections written by different hands. >
<kvacidutpalakastūṣṇīm āste saṁsparśanirvṛtaḥ>
aspaṁdapraṇayānaṁdasalilāmīlitekṣaṇaḥ ..41 ( BhP. 7.4.41 ) (Anuṣṭubh)
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iti dākṣāyaṇīnāṁ te pṛthagvaṁśā prakīrtitāḥ
devāsuramanuṣyādyā lokā yatra carācarā 81 ( BhP. 7.15.80 BhP. 7.15.53 has three lines in the digital edition while this manuscript repeats the last line of the 7.15.52 followed by the first line of verse 53 as verse 53 and numbers the last two lines 54. ) (Anuṣṭubh)
iti śrībhāgavate mahāpurāṇe saptamaskaṁdhe sadācāranirṇayo nāma paṁcadaśo dhyāyaḥ15
miti māghasraḥ vadi 4 saṁvata 1899 kā liṣitaṁ bhagavaddāsapāṭhārthaṁ
śrīrāma rāma rāma rāma
śubham a[stu]stu
kalyāṇa!r a!<m a>stu
śrīrāma śrīrāma
tisvarociṣā 27 ātmanā trivṛtā cedaṁ