Manuscript Identifiers

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

Contents

Work 1

Locus:f. 1r–74v (complete)
Author:Kṛṣṇa Dvaipāyana Vyāsa
Title:Bhāgavatapurāṇa
Part:skandha 1
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..
Note:
BhP. 1.1.1
Explicit: f. 74r:
sūta uvāca .. ..
evam ābhāṣitaḥ pṛṣṭaḥ sa rājñā ślakṣṇayā girā .
pratyabhāṣata dharmmajño bhagavān bādarāyaṇiḥ
..40..
Note:
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

Work 2

Locus:f. 1v–74r (complete)
Author:Śrīdharasvāmin
Part:ad skandha 1
Incipit: f. 1v:
õ namaḥ paramahaṁsāsvāditacaraṇakamalacinmakaraṁdāya bhaktajanamānasanivāsāya śrīrāmacaṁdrāya ..
vāgīśā yasya vadane lakṣmīr ya() ca vakṣasi .
yasyāste hṛdaye saṁvit taṁ nṛsiṁham ahaṁ bhaje ..1..
Note:
Kṛṣṇaśaṅkara Śāstrin 1965 vol. 1, p. 1, ad 1.1.1
Explicit: f. 74r:

evam aho ityādikayā ślakṣṇayā madhurayā girā ābhāṣitaḥ abhimu
khīkṛtaḥ pṛṣṭaś ca ..
Note:
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()khyātaṁ ca kṛtvā bhuvi .
aṁte yaḥ śukarūpataḥ svaparamajñā
nopadeśena taṁ śāpād āvadamuṁ namāmi paramānaṁdākṛtiṁ mā[ṁ]dhavaṁ ..0..
Note:
Kṛṣṇaśaṅkara Śāstrin 1965 vol. 1, p. 809, final verse following 1.19.40
Final rubric: f. 74r:
iti prathme ekonaviṁśatimo <'> dhyāyaḥ .. ..[:]..1..
Colophon:none
Language:Sanskrit in Devanāgarī script

Physical description

Form:Folia
Material:Country-made paper.
Extent:74
Dimension:15.1 x 37.5 cm
Collation: Single folios.
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.
Layout:Written in 7–16 lines per page in an hourglass arrangement with commentary above and below the base text.

Hands

Hand 1:Written in clear, bold, regular characters, some tilted forward, some backward, in wavy lines.
Hand 2:A second hand has written f53r-f55v, f63r-f68v 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.

Decoration

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.

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:Puranas – Bhāgavatapurāṇa – 1. skandha.
SubjectLC:Manuscripts, Sanskrit – 19th century.
SubjectLC:Manuscripts – India – 19th century.
SubjectSL:Purāṇa. Ancient Cosmogony, Genealogy, Narrative

Facsimile

Whole imageIndividual pages
f. 1rf. 1r  
f. 1v,f. 2rf. 1v  f. 2r  
f. 2v,f. 3rf. 2v  f. 3r  
f. 3v,f. 4rf. 3v  f. 4r  
f. 4v,f. 5rf. 4v  f. 5r  
f. 5v,f. 6rf. 5v  f. 6r  
f. 6v,f. 7rf. 6v  f. 7r  
f. 7v,f. 8rf. 7v  f. 8r  
f. 8v,f. 9rf. 8v  f. 9r  
f. 9v,f. 10rf. 9v  f. 10r  
f. 10v,f. 11rf. 10v  f. 11r  
f. 11v,f. 12rf. 11v  f. 12r  
f. 12v,f. 13rf. 12v  f. 13r  
f. 13v,f. 14rf. 13v  f. 14r  
f. 14v,f. 15rf. 14v  f. 15r  
f. 15v,f. 16rf. 15v  f. 16r  
f. 16v,f. 17rf. 16v  f. 17r  
f. 17v,f. 18rf. 17v  f. 18r  
f. 18v,f. 19rf. 18v  f. 19r  
f. 19v,f. 20rf. 19v  f. 20r  
f. 20v,f. 21rf. 20v  f. 21r  
f. 21v,f. 22rf. 21v  f. 22r  
f. 22v,f. 23rf. 22v  f. 23r  
f. 23v,f. 24rf. 23v  f. 24r  
f. 24v,f. 25rf. 24v  f. 25r  
f. 25v,f. 26rf. 25v  f. 26r  
f. 26v,f. 27rf. 26v  f. 27r  
f. 27v,f. 28rf. 27v  f. 28r  
f. 28v,f. 29rf. 28v  f. 29r  
f. 29v,f. 30rf. 29v  f. 30r  
f. 30v,f. 31rf. 30v  f. 31r  
f. 31v,f. 32rf. 31v  f. 32r  
f. 32v,f. 33rf. 32v  f. 33r  
f. 33v,f. 34rf. 33v  f. 34r  
f. 34v,f. 35rf. 34v  f. 35r  
f. 35v,f. 36rf. 35v  f. 36r  
f. 36v,f. 37rf. 36v  f. 37r  
f. 37v,f. 38rf. 37v  f. 38r  
f. 38v,f. 39rf. 38v  f. 39r  
f. 39v,f. 40rf. 39v  f. 40r  
f. 40v,f. 41rf. 40v  f. 41r  
f. 41v,f. 42rf. 41v  f. 42r  
f. 42v,f. 43rf. 42v  f. 43r  
f. 43v,f. 44rf. 43v  f. 44r  
f. 44v,f. 45rf. 44v  f. 45r  
f. 45v,f. 46rf. 45v  f. 46r  
f. 46v,f. 47rf. 46v  f. 47r  
f. 47v,f. 48rf. 47v  f. 48r  
f. 48v,f. 49rf. 48v  f. 49r  
f. 49v,f. 50rf. 49v  f. 50r  
f. 50v,f. 51rf. 50v  f. 51r  
f. 51v,f. 52rf. 51v  f. 52r  
f. 52v,f. 53rf. 52v  f. 53r  
f. 53v,f. 54rf. 53v  f. 54r  
f. 54v,f. 55rf. 54v  f. 55r  
f. 55v,f. 56rf. 55v  f. 56r  
f. 56v,f. 57rf. 56v  f. 57r  
f. 57v,f. 58rf. 57v  f. 58r  
f. 58v,f. 59rf. 58v  f. 59r  
f. 59v,f. 60rf. 59v  f. 60r  
f. 60v,f. 61rf. 60v  f. 61r  
f. 61v,f. 62rf. 61v  f. 62r  
f. 62v,f. 63rf. 62v  f. 63r  
f. 63v,f. 64rf. 63v  f. 64r  
f. 64v,f. 65rf. 64v  f. 65r  
f. 65v,f. 66rf. 65v  f. 66r  
f. 66v,f. 67rf. 66v  f. 67r  
f. 67v,f. 68rf. 67v  f. 68r  
f. 68v,f. 69rf. 68v  f. 69r  
f. 69v,f. 70rf. 69v  f. 70r  
f. 70v,f. 71rf. 70v  f. 71r  
f. 71v,f. 72rf. 71v  f. 72r  
f. 72v,f. 73rf. 72v  f. 73r  
f. 73v,f. 74rf. 73v  f. 74r  
f. 74vf. 74v  


Transcription (Manuscript Layout)

mū:
f.1r
Line 1: prathama ()
f.1v
Line 7: õ janmādy asya yato <'> nvayād itarataś cārtheṣv abhijñaḥ svarāṭ tene brahma hṛdā ya ādikavaye muhyaṁti yat sūrayaḥ .
Line 8: tejovārimṛdāṁ yathā vinimayo yatra trisargo <'> mṛṣā dhāmnā svena sadā nirastakuhakaṁ satyaṁ paraṁ dhīmahi ..1.. [
f.74r
Line 7: [ sūta uvāca .. .. evam ābhāṣitaḥ pṛṣṭaḥ sa rājñā ślakṣṇayā girā . pratyabhāṣata dharmmajño bhagavān bādarāyaṇiḥ
Line 8: ..40..
iti śrībhāgavate mahāpurāne prathamaskaṁdhe śukāgamanaṁ nāma ekonaviṁśo<'> dhyāyaḥ .. [
Commentary:
f.1v
Line 1: .. .. śrīgaṇeśāyanamaḥ .. .. õ namaḥ paramahaṁsāsvāditacaraṇakamalacinmakaraṁdāya bhaktajanamānasanivāsāya śrīrāmacaṁdrāya .. vāgīśā yasya vadane lakṣmīr ya() ca vakṣasi .
Line 2: yasyāste hṛdaye saṁvit taṁ nṛsiṁham ahaṁ bhaje ..1.. [
f.74r
Line 9: [

evam aho ityādikayā ślakṣṇayā madhurayā girā ābhāṣitaḥ abhimu
Line 10: khīkṛtaḥ pṛṣṭaś ca ..

āryyaṁ dharmajam āhatārim avanau kṛtvā parīkṣin nṛpaṁ !vra!<bra> hmāstrād abhira!ṁ!<>kṣitaṁ kali[yā]ja()khyātaṁ ca kṛtvā bhuvi . aṁte yaḥ śukarūpataḥ svaparamajñā
Line 11: nopadeśena taṁ śāpād āvadamuṁ namāmi paramānaṁdākṛtiṁ mā[ṁ]dhavaṁ ..0..
iti prathme ekonaviṁśatimo <'> dhyāyaḥ .. .. [:]..1..
Record revised:24 April 2012