Manuscript Identifiers

Collection:UPenn Ms. Coll. 390
Item:2814
Repository:Rare Book & Manuscript Library
Institution:University of Pennsylvania
Location:Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Catalog:Poleman
Item:1386

Contents

Work 1 (complete)

Locus:ff. 1r–7v
Author:Kāśīnāthabhāṭṭa
Title:Durjanamukhacapeṭikā
Incipit: f. 1v
yā viśvaṁ vitanoti pālayati yā saṁhaṁti kalpakṣaye
brahmāṇaṁ ca hariṁ haraṁ ca manasaivotpādayaṁtī guṇaiḥ
sāvitrīṁ caramām umāṁ ca tanujāṁ datvātha tebhyaḥ pṛthak
juṣṭā paśyati dṛśyate ca sakalaṁ tāṁ naumi viśveśvarīṁ 1 (Śārdūlavikrīḍita)
Explicit: f. 6vf. 7r
svataṁ trā viśvasiddhihetur iti brahmāṁḍe
svataṁtrāhaṁ sadādevī svechācāravihāriṇīti bhāvanopaniṣadi
sa rvakāraṇabhūtā śaktiḥ śrīdevībhāgavate
ārādhyā paramā śaktiḥ sarvair api surāsuraiḥ
nātaḥ parataraṁ kiṁ cid adhikaṁ bhuvanatraye (Anuṣṭubh)
satyaṁ satyaṁ punaḥ satyaṁ vedaśāstrārthanirṇayaṁ
pūjanīyā parāśaktir nirguṇā saguṇāthavā (Anuṣṭubh)
ity alam ativistareṇa
Final rubric: f. 7r
iti srīmatbhaṭṭopanāmakajayarāmabhaṭṭasutavārāṇasīgarbhasaṁbhavakāśīnāthabhaṭṭaviracitā durjanamukhacapeṭikā samāptā
Colophon:none
Note:Poleman notes that the text is ‘A vindication of the Bhāgavatapurāṇa’. Nelson notes that the text argues that the Devībhāgavata is the real Bhāgavatapurāṇa. UPenn 749, work 2 is also the Durjanamukhacapeṭikā.
Language:Sanskrit in Devanāgarī script

Physical description

Form:Folia
Material:Paper
Extent:7 folia
Dimension:11.8 x 27.8 cm (h x w)
Foliation: Foliated in the upper left margin and lower right margin on the verso of each folio except the last which is foliated on the recto.
   Formula:1–7
   Signatures:de0 du0 appears above the folio number in the upper left margin on each folio.
Collation: Single folia.
Condition:Very good with a few small chips in the edges.
Binding: Unbound
Layout:Written in 9–10 lines per page.

Hands

Additions:

Mistakes covered over with yellow or written over. Marginal corrections and additions.

Decoration

Color:Yellow is used to cover mistakes.

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

Record history

Revised: 27 November 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. 7v  


Transcription (text structure)

śrī gaṇeśāya namaḥ

yā viśvaṁ vitanoti pālayati yā saṁhaṁti kalpakṣaye
brahmāṇaṁ ca hariṁ haraṁ ca manasaivotpādayaṁtī guṇaiḥ
sāvitrīṁ caramām umāṁ ca tanujāṁ datvātha tebhyaḥ pṛthak
juṣṭā paśyati dṛśyate ca sakalaṁ tāṁ naumi viśveśvarīṁ 1 (Śārdūlavikrīḍita)
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svataṁ trā viśvasiddhihetur iti brahmāṁḍe
svataṁtrāhaṁ sadādevī svechācāravihāriṇīti bhāvanopaniṣadi
sa rvakāraṇabhūtā śaktiḥ śrīdevībhāgavate
ārādhyā paramā śaktiḥ sarvair api surāsuraiḥ
nātaḥ parataraṁ kiṁ cid adhikaṁ bhuvanatraye (Anuṣṭubh)
satyaṁ satyaṁ punaḥ satyaṁ vedaśāstrārthanirṇayaṁ
pūjanīyā parāśaktir nirguṇā saguṇāthavā (Anuṣṭubh)
ity alam ativistareṇa
iti srīmatbhaṭṭopanāmakajayarāmabhaṭṭasutavārāṇasīgarbhasaṁbhavakāśīnāthabhaṭṭaviracitā durjanamukhacapeṭikā samāptā