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Title

Śrīmadbhāgavata
श्रीमद्भागवत

Authors

• Śrīdharasvāmin

Call number

Ms. Coll. 390 Item 2252
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9947456453503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/551642956
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/4745645

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

In Sanskrit

Summary

First section of the popular tenth book of the Bhāgavatapurāṇa containing stories about the childhood and youth of the Hindu deity Kṛṣṇa, his slaying of various demons as well as his interaction with the cowherd girls (gopīs). Text considers Kṛṣṇa an incarnation of Viṣṇu and makes efforts to articulate Kṛṣṇa's connection to the divine godhead and identifying him as the Bhagavat or Lord, a common name for Viṣṇu in medieval Vaiṣṇava cults. Doctrine of text is central for the Hindu worship of Viṣṇu. The manuscript includes the commentary by Śrīdharasvāmin.

Notes

• Title from title page (f. 1r); commentary title Bhāvārthadīpikā, from colophon (f. 144v); alternate commentary title Bhāgavatabhāvārthadīpikā supplied by cataloger.
   
• Colophon (Commentary): iti śrīśrīdharasvāmiviracitāyāṃ padabhāvārthadīpikāyāme konapaṃcāśattamodhyāyaḥ // samāptoryapūrvārddhaḥ // (f. 144v).
   
• Double daṇḍas of text, and some of commentary, in red or bright orange. Mistakes covered over with yellow or written over. Orange powder rubbed in over invocation, colophons, introductions of speakers, and numbers. Marginal corrections and lengthy additions.
   
• Written in 11-14 lines per leaf.
   
• Non-Latin script record.
   

Extent

1 item (144 leaves) : 35 x 16 cm

Support

Paper

Colophon

Colophon: iti śrībhāgavate mahāpurāṇe daśamaskaṃdhe pāramahaṃsya saṃhitāyamikonapaṃcāśattamodhyāyaḥ // (f. 144v)

Subjects topical

• Krishna (Hindu deity)
• Vishnu (Hindu deity)
• Hindu mythology
• Avatars (Religion)
• Monsters--India

Genres

• Poems
• Prayers
• Commentaries
• Manuscripts, Sanskrit--19th century
• Manuscripts--India--19th century

Licenses

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