Manuscript Identifiers

Collection:UPenn Ms. Coll. 390
Item:2260
Repository:Rare Book & Manuscript Library
Institution:University of Pennsylvania
Location:Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Catalog:
Item:954

Work 1 (complete)

Locus:1v
Author:kfzRa dvEpAyana vyAsa
Title:mahABArata
Part:bhagavadgItA-nyAsa
Cover rubric:
Incipit:f.<1r> oM asya zrIbhagavadgItAmAlAmaMtrasya bhagavAn vedavyAsa RSir anuSTupchaMdaH || zrI kRSNaH paramAtmA devatA | azocyA nanV azocas tvaM prajJAvAdAMz ca bhASaseti vIjaM ||
Explicit:f.<3v>
Final rubric:iti nyAsaH ||
Colophon:
Filiation:
Second folio:Don't understand
Signatures:Don't understand
Language:Sanskrit in Devanagari script

Work 2 (complete)

Locus:3v
Author:kfzRa dvEpAyana vyAsa
Title:mahABArata
Part:bhagavadgItA
Cover rubric:
Incipit:f.<3v>
Explicit:f.<70v>
Final rubric:f.<71r> iti zrIbhagavadgItAsUpaniSatsu vrahmavidyAyAM yogazAstre zrIkRSNArjjunasaMvAde mokSasanyAsayogo nAmASTadazo dhyAyaH ||18||
Colophon:f.<71r> Samvat ||1872|| zAke ||1737|| pauSe mAse zuklapakSe tithau ||8|| ravivAsare || idaM pustakaM paTanArthaM zrIbhaktimUrttizrIvaiSNavakraSNadAsajI || maMgalaM dadAt || liSyataM paM zrItivArIkaliyAnasAha | muH nagaralidhauraha madhye
Filiation:
Second folio:Don't understand
Signatures:Don't understand
Language:Sanskrit in Devanagari script

Physical description

Form:folia
Material:paper
Watermark:
Extent:71
Foliation:71 leaves, foliated 1-71.
1-71
Collation:
Condition:
Accompanying matter:

Hands

Summary:
Additions:

Mistakes covered with yellow. A few marginal corrections.

Decoration

History

Color:Invocations, colophon, introductions of speakers, and double daṇḍas in red. Mistakes covered with yellow. Orange powder rubbed in over numbers.
Border:
Illustration:
Origin: saMvat 1872; zaka 1737; [=1815]
Provenance:
Acquisition: (David Nelson (2000: 203)) describes the acquisition of the Sanskrit manuscripts in the University of Pennsylvania Library as follows: “

The University of Pennsylvania Library possesses a collection of almost 3,300 Indic manuscripts, the largest such collection in the Western hemisphere. While the vast majority of these manuscripts are from India, there are also a number of manuscripts from Burma, Thailand, Sri Lanka, and Tibet.

Some of the manuscripts had been acquired in chance fashion by the Library and the University Museum before 1930, but in that year, at the request of Professor W. Norman Brown (1892-1975), Provost Josiah Penniman provided a sum of money to purchase Indic manuscripts. Shortly thereafter he obtained a donation from the late Mr. John Gribbel. Substantial contributions from Dr. Charles W. Burr, the Faculty Research Fund, and the Cotton Fund soon followed. The bulk of the manuscripts are the result of purchases made using these funds in India, between 1930 and 1935, under the direction of Professor W. Norman Brown.

Subject headings

SubjectLC:Mahābhārata -- Bhagavadgītā.
SubjectLC:Manuscripts, Sanskrit -- 18th century.
SubjectLC:Manuscripts -- India -- 18th century.
SubjectSL:../TEI_MS/IndicSubjectClassification.xml#mahABarata ()

Facsimile

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Transcription nyAsa null:

zrIkRSNo vijayate jagadekavaMdhuH ||
oM asya zrIbhagavadgItAmAlAmaMtrasya bhagavAn vedavyAsa RSir anuSTupchaMdaH ||
zrI kRSNaH paramAtmA devatA |
azocyA nanV azocas tvaM prajJAvAdAMz ca bhASaseti vIjaM ||
[...]

f. 3v:

dhyAnAvasthitatadgatena manasA pazyaMti yaM yogino (||)
yasyAt taM na viduH surAsuragaNA devAya tasmai namaH ||9||
iti nyAsaH ||

f. 3v:
dhRtarASTra uvAca ||
dharmmakSetre [...] (MBh. 06.023.001, numbered 1)

f. 70v:

[...] nIti matir mama |78|| (Mbh. 06.040.078)

f. 71r:

iti zrIbhagavadgItAsUpaniSatsu vrahmavidyAyAM yogazAstre zrIkRSNArjjunasaMvAde mokSasanyAsayogo nAmASTadazo dhyAyaH ||18||
Samvat ||1872||
zAke ||1737||
pauSe mAse zuklapa{was: pe}kSe tithau ||8||
ravivAsare ||
idaM pustakaM paTanArthaM zrIbhaktimUrttizrIvaiSNavakraSNadAsajI ||
maMgalaM dadAt ||
liSyataM paM zrItivArIkaliyAnasAha |
muH nagaralidhauraha madhye

Changes

PersonDateChange
Matthias AhlbornSeptember 2010In , filled MsDescPennTemplate.xml with data in Toke Knudsen's OriginalData.txt file and data in mbh_bhp.xml collected by David Nelson.
Peter M. Scharf???date mo.??? 2010edited the original encoding .