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Ādipurāṇa, circa 1700-1850. = आदिपुराण, १७००-१८५०.

Publication:
circa 1700-1850.
१७००-१८५०.
Format/Description:
Manuscript
1 item (114 leaves) : paper ; 14 x 30 cm
Contained In:
Collection of Indic Manuscripts. Item 333
Status/Location:
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Subjects:
Krishna (Hindu deity).
Hindu mythology.
Form/Genre:
Adventure stories.
Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
Manuscripts.
Language:
In Sanskrit and Hindi (Devanāgarī)
Summary:
Incomplete manuscript, containing up to 25 and including part of 26 of 29 chapters (adhyāya); an Upapurāṇa dealing with the life and deeds of the Hindu deity Kṛṣṇa, such as when he splits the Yamalārjjuna tree; Kṛṣṇa not Viṣṇu is posited as the highest reality; not to be confused with the Jaina work or the Brahmāpurāṇa also titled Ādipurāṇa. Additional prayer in Hindi written in second scribal hand on a different kind of paper, found folded between folios 76 and 77, now following the end of the manuscript.
Notes:
Title from title page (f. 1r).
Written in 9 lines per leaf.
114 leaves foliated 1-113, [i], upper left and lower right verso.
Colophon (chapter 23): ity ādipurāṇe śrīkṛṣṇanāradasaṃvāde mṛdbhakṣaṇe svarūpadarśanaṃ nāmatriviṃśodhyāyaḥ // 23 // (f. 102v).
Colophon (chapter 25): ity ādipurāṇe yamalārjjunabhaṃgo nāmapaṃcaviṃśatimodhyāyaḥ // 25 // (f. 110r).
Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; significant syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red throughout; vertical margins marked with double black line.
Non-Latin script record.
Penn Provenance:
Comissioned by Vyāsa Gaurīśa (f. 1r).
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 1026 (UP 333).
Cited as:
UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 333
Contributor:
Vyāsa Gaurīśa, former owner.
OCLC:
773208517