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Title

Ādipurāṇa
आदिपुराण

Other related names

• Vyāsa Gaurīśa, former owner

Call number

Ms. Coll. 390 Item 333
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9954107793503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/773208717
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/5410779

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

In Sanskrit and Hindi

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.
   

Extent

1 item (114 leaves) : 14 x 30 cm

Support

Paper

Colophon

Colophon (chapter 23): ity ādipurāṇe śrīkṛṣṇanāradasaṃvāde mṛdbhakṣaṇe svarūpadarśanaṃ nāmatriviṃśodhyāyaḥ // 23 // (f. 102v).

Provenance

• Comissioned by Vyāsa Gaurīśa (f. 1r).
   

Subjects topical

• Krishna (Hindu deity)
• Hindu mythology

Genres

• Adventure stories
• Manuscripts, Sanskrit--18th century
• Manuscripts, Sanskrit--19th century
• Manuscripts--India--18th century
• Manuscripts--India--19th century

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