Manuscript Identifiers

Collection:UPenn Ms. Coll. 390
Item:2380
Repository:Rare Book & Manuscript Library
Institution:University of Pennsylvania
Location:Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Catalog:Poleman
Item:1338

Contents

Work 1

Locus:ff. 1r–74v (complete)
Author:Kṛṣṇa Dvaipāyana Vyāsa
Title:Bhāgavatapurāṇa
Part:skandha 1

Work 2

Locus:ff. 1r–74v (complete)
Author:Śrīdharasvāmin
Part:ad skandha 1
Incipit: f. 1v:
õ namaḥ ..śrīparamahaṁsāsvaditacaraṇakamalacinmakaraṁdāya bhaktajanamāna
sanivāsāya śrīrāmacaṁdrāya ..

vāgīśā yasya vadane lakṣmīr yasya 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:

eva
m aho ityādikayā ()rayā girā ābhāṣitaḥ abhimu!ṣī!<khī>kṛtaḥ pṛṣṭaś ca ..40..
Note:
Kṛṣṇaśaṅkara Śāstrin 1965 vol. 1, p. 809, ad 1.19.40


āryaṁ dharmajam āhatārim avanau kṛtvā parīkṣin nṛpaṁ brahmāstrād abhirakṣitaṁ kalija
yakhyātaṁ ca kṛtvā bhuvi ..
aṁte yaḥ śukarūpataḥ svaparamajñānopad!a!<e>śena taṁ śāpād āvadamuṁ namāmi paramānaṁdākṛtiṁ mādhavam .1..
Note:
Kṛṣṇaśaṅkara Śāstrin 1965 vol. 1, p. 809, 1.19 final verse
Final rubric: f. 74r:
iti śrībhāgavate bhāvārthadī
pikāṭīkāyām ekonaviṁśo <'> dhyāyaḥ ..
Colophon:none
Language:Sanskrit in Devanāgarī script

Physical description

Form:Folia
Material:Country-made paper.
Extent:74
Dimension:15.1 x 35.5 cm
Collation: Single folios.
Condition:Excellent.
Binding: Unbound.
Layout:Written in 9–16 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 and tilted lines.
Additions:

Mistakes are covered over with yellow, crossed through, or written over. There are marginal and interlinear additions by different hands, some lengthy, for example on f. 35r. On f. 4v an entire line of the base text is yellowed out; the text that remains is continuous.

Decoration

Color:Some final rubrics, some introductions of speakers, and some double daṇḍas are written in red. Other final rubrics, introductions of speakers, and double daṇḍas are written in purple. Orange powder is rubbed over numbers, some final rubrics, and some words. Yellow is used to cover mistakes.
Border:Triple red lines rule the left and right margins of the text on each page, except f. 64v.

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

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f. 64v,f. 65rf. 64v  f. 65r  
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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.1v
Line 1: atha prathamaskaṁdhaprāraṁbhaḥ
f.1v
Line 7: śrīgaṇeśāya namaḥ .. janmādyasya 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 .. pratyabhāṣa
Line 8: ta dharmajño bhagavān bādarāyaṇiḥ ..40..
iti śrībhāgava!va!<>te mahāpurāṇe prathamaskaṁdhe 'ṣṭādaśasāhasryāṁ saṁhitāyāṁ śrīśukāgamanaṁ nā
Line 9: ma ekonaviṁśo 'dhyāyaḥ ..
rāma .. ..
f.74v
Line 1: .. iti bhāgavate prathamaskaṁdha<ḥ>samāpta!ḥm!<> iti!ḥ!<> ..
Line 2:
lekhakapāṭhak!o!<a>yo<ḥ> śubhaṁ bhavatu!ḥ!<> .. rāmaḥ ..
Commentary:
f.1v
Line 1: śrīmahāgaṇapatye namaḥ .. śrī lakṣmīśrīnṛsiṁhāya namaḥ .. õ namaḥ .. śrīparamahaṁsāsvaditacaraṇakamalacinmakaraṁdāya bhaktajanamāna
Line 2: sanivāsāya śrīrāmacaṁdrāya ..
vāgīśā yasya vadane lakṣmīr yasya ca vakṣasi . yasyāste hṛdaye saṁvit taṁ nṛsiṁham ahaṁ bhaje ..1.. [
f.74r
Line 10: [

eva
Line 11: m aho ityādikayā ()rayā girā ābhāṣitaḥ abhimu!ṣī!<khī>kṛtaḥ pṛṣṭaś ca ..40..

āryaṁ dharmajam āhatārim avanau kṛtvā parīkṣin nṛpaṁ brahmāstrād abhirakṣitaṁ kalija
Line 12: yakhyātaṁ ca kṛtvā bhuvi .. aṁte yaḥ śukarūpataḥ svaparamajñānopad!a!<e>śena taṁ śāpād āvadamuṁ namāmi paramānaṁdākṛtiṁ mādhavam .1..
iti śrībhāgavate bhāvārthadī
Line 13: pikāṭīkāyām ekonaviṁśo <'> dhyāyaḥ ..
Record revised:25 April 2012