Bhāgavatamahāpurāṇa. Second skandha, circa 1700-1850.
भागवतमहापुराण. द्वितीयस्कंध,

Format:

Manuscript

Standardized Title:

Puranas. Bhāgavatapurāṇa. 2. skandha.

Language:

Sanskrit

Subjects (All):

Hindu mythology.

Dharma.

Genre:

poems

Manuscripts, Sanskrit.

Manuscripts.

Physical Description:

1 item (16 leaves) : paper ; 11 x 32 cm

Contained In:

Collection of Indic Manuscripts. Item 2307

Place of Publication:

circa 1700-1850.

१७००-१८५०.

Language Note:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Contains a full version of the Bhāgavatapurāṇa, second skandha, which claims to be the answer to all questions, contains a description of avatāras of the Hindu god Kṛṣṇa, the process of creation, and portrays Kṛṣṇa (Vāsudeva) as the cause of the universe; it is a companion to Śrīdharasvamin's commentary, the Bhāgavatabhāvārthadīpikā, contained in Item 2306.

Notes:

Title from colophon (f. 16v).

Written in 10-12 lines per leaf.

16 leaves foliated 1-16, upper left and lower right verso on most folios.

Colophon: iti śrībhāgavate mahāpurāṇe aṣṭā daśasāhasyāṃ saṃhitāyāṃ dvitīyaskaṃdhe daśamodhyāyaḥ // samāpto 'yaṃ dvitīyaskaṃdhaḥ (f. 16v).

Mistakes blacked out; some corrections in margins; verse numbers and section colophons highlighted in red.

Written in the same scribal hand as Ms. Coll. 390, Item 2306.

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 1330, Part 1 (UP 2307).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 2307

OCLC:

761081098