Details

Standardized Title:

Puranas. Bhāgavatapurāṇa. 2. skandha.

Other Title:

Brahmanāradasaṃvāda.

Subjects:

Krishna (Hindu deity).
Vishnu (Hindu deity).
Brahma (Hindu deity).
Hindu legends.
Devotional literature, Sanskrit.

Form/Genre:

Poems.
Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
Manuscripts.

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Subsection of chapter 9 (verses 30-45) of the Bhāgavatapurāṇa, book 2; part of a conversation between the Lord of Creation, Brahmā and the Hindu deity Kṛṣṇa (identified with Viṣṇu) wherein the deity identifies himself as an eternal form existing prior to creation; also contains the final commentary from Śuka, the fictional narrator of the Bhāgavatapurāṇa who describes the disappearance of Viṣṇu and a subsequent conversation between Brahmā and Nārada.

Notes:

Title from colophon (f. 1v); alternate title from colophon (f. 1v).
Written in 8-9 lines.
1 leaf foliated 1, upper left and lower right verso.
Colophon: iti śrībhāgavate mahāpurāṇe dvitīyaskaṃdhe brahmanāradasaṃvāde navamodhyāyaḥ // (f. 1v).
Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out.
Non-Latin script record.

Cited in:

Listed in H. I. Poleman, Census of Indic Manuscripts in the United States and Canada (New Haven, Conn.: American Oriental Society, 1938), Poleman formerly housed with 7272 (UP 2799).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 3036

OCLC:

767739919