Manuscript Identifiers

Collection:UPenn Ms. Coll. 390
Item:2373
Repository:Rare Book & Manuscript Library
Institution:University of Pennsylvania
Location:Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Catalog:Poleman
Item:1331

Contents

Work 1

Locus:f. 1v-150 (complete)
Author:śrīdharasvāmin
Part:ad skandha 11
Incipit: f. 1v:
oṃ namo paramahaṃsāsyāditacaraṇakamalacinmakaraṃdāya bhaktajanamānasanivāsāya śrīrāmāya ||1||
(cf. BhP.S.BhD. 11.1.1 Sb11_0002.tif )
Explicit: f. 150:
ādita ārabhya śrīkṛṣṇacaritakīrtanasya phalamāha ya etad iti dvābhyāṃ
(BhP.S.BhD. 11.31.27 Sb11_1350.tif ) śaṃtamāni paramamaṃgalāni paramahaṃsagatau śrikṛṣṇe
(BhP.S.BhD. 11.31.28 Sb11_1350.tif )
Final rubric: f. 150:
evam ekādaśaskaṃdhabhāvārthasya (dīpika ||
svājñānadhvāṃtabhītena śrīdhareṇa prakāśitā ||31||
(after BhP.S.BhD. 11.31.28 Sb11_1350.tif ) ādaśaskṃdhe bhāvārtha * || dīpikāyām ekatriṃśodhyāyaḥ || || ||
Filiation:Possibly connected to UP2374, UP2375, UP2376, UP2377, UP2378, and UP2379, all of which have clear textual filiation
Language:Sanskrit in Devanagari script

Work 2

Locus:f. 1v-150 (complete)
Author:kṛṣṇa dvaipāyana vyāsa
Title:bhāgavatapurāṇa
Part:skandha 11
Incipit: f. 2r:
śrīvādarāyanāruvāca || kṛtvā daityavadhaṃ kṛṣṇaḥ sarāmo yadurbhir vṛtaḥ ||
ca || ||
bhuvo {'}vatārayad bhāraṃ javiṣṭhaṃ janayan kaliṃ ||1||
(BhP. 10.1.1 Sb11_0002.tif )
Final rubric: f. 150:
iti śrībhāgavate mahāpurāṇe ekādaśaskaṃdhe pāramahaṃsyāṃ saṃhitāyāṃ ekādaśaskaṃdhe mauśalaṃnāma ekatriṃśattamodhyāyaḥ ||31||31|| ||
(cf. BhP. 11.31.28 Sb11_1350.tif )
Filiation:Possibly connected to UP2374, UP2375, UP2376, UP2377, UP2378, and UP2379, all of which have clear textual filiation
Language:Sanskrit in Devanagari script

Physical description

Form:folia
Material:country paper
Extent:150
Dimension:14.1 x 33 cm
Foliation:Folio 72 is written as "73" and subsequent foliation follows this, i.e., f. 74 etc.
Collation:single folia
Condition:good, paper quality somewhat fragile and frayed although not brittle. Staining, frail, thin, rough, worn edges. The text looks to be well used and there are places where it is worn from hands leaning on it. f. 17v:
new leave collated onto original f. 17v. Is in a different hand. An attempt to correct the numbering at BhP.11.3.43ff. At the top left of original leaf rājovā can be read. The original leaf corresponds to BhP.11.4.1ff. as found on f. 18v. f. 18r:
continues the mistaken numbering. The added leaf appears to be a failed attempt to correct the problems in numbering at BhP 11.3.43, but causes more problems than it corrects.
Layout:nine to thirteen lines per leaf except ff. 46-63, eleven to fourteen lines per leaf.

Hands

Hand 1: f. 46r-63v:
is by a second hand. More marginal corrections overall. There is textual continuity. E.g. f. 63v-64r:
corresponds to BhP.11.13.27 to BhP.11.13.28. Dimensions of leaves are different also: height=14.4cm width=33.1
Additions:

Marginal corrections and additions. The ink is wearing off on many folios, but (the text) is still legible. Mistakes written or covered over with white. The ink is wearing away in some places. The text continues over into both margins. Ff. 46-63 in a different hand from the rest of ms.

f. 16v-17r:
verse number "43" in BhP.11.3.43 is written twice, the second "43" corresponding to BhP.11.3.44. All subsequent numbering in chapter is off by one in both root text and commentary.
(BhP. 11.37-44 Sb11_0171.tif )

f. 94r:
Numerous corrections in both root text and commentary.

Decoration

Color:ff. 1-29 show signs of having been bordered with yellow. Invocation, numbers, double daNDas, and every other syllable of some introductions of speakers, in red. Mistakes covered over with yellow. Orange border rubbed in over most colophons and some syllables.

History

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

SubjectSL:Purāṇa. Ancient Cosmogony, Genealogy, Narrative

Facsimile

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Transcription

f. 1v:
Commentary:
|| oṃ || śrīgaṇeśāya namaḥ || || oṃ namo paramahaṃsāsyāditacaraṇakamalacinmakaraṃdāya bhaktajanamānasanivāsāya śrīrāmāya ||1|| ...
(cf. BhP.S.BhD. 11.1.1 Sb11_0002.tif ) mū:
f. 2r:
śrīvādarāyanāruvāca || kṛtvā daityavadhaṃ kṛṣṇaḥ sarāmo yadurbhir vṛtaḥ ||
ca || ||
bhuvo {'}vatārayad bhāraṃ javiṣṭhaṃ janayan kaliṃ ||1|| ...
(BhP. 10.1.1 Sb11_0002.tif )
f. 150:
Commentary:
... ādita ārabhya śrīkṛṣṇacaritakīrtanasya phalam āha ya etad iti dvābhyāṃ
(BhP.S.BhD. 11.31.27 Sb11_1350.tif ) śaṃtamāni paramamaṃgalāni paramahaṃsagatau śrikṛṣṇe
(BhP.S.BhD. 11.31.28 Sb11_1350.tif ) evam ekādaśaskaṃdhabhāvārthasya (dīpika ||
svājñānadhvāṃtabhītena śrīdhareṇa prakāśitā ||31||
(after BhP.S.BhD. 11.31.28 Sb11_1350.tif ) ādaśaskṃdhe bhāvārtha * || dīpikāyām ekatriṃśodhyāyaḥ || || || śubham astu || || ca || mū:
iti śrībhāgavate mahāpurāṇe ekādaśaskaṃdhe pāramahaṃsyāṃ saṃhitāyāṃ ekādaśaskaṃdhe mauśalaṃnāma ekatriṃśattamodhyāyaḥ ||31||31|| ||
(cf. BhP. 11.31.28 Sb11_1350.tif ) śrīrāmakṛṣṇa
Record revised:???date mo.??? 2010