Manuscript Identifiers

Collection:UPenn Ms. Coll. 390
Item:2336
Repository:Rare Book & Manuscript Library
Institution:University of Pennsylvania
Location:Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Catalog:
Item:955

Work 1 (complete)

Locus:1v
Author:kfzRa dvEpAyana vyAsa
Title:mahABArata
Part:bhagavadgItA-nyAsa
Cover rubric:
Incipit:f.<1v> asya zrIbhagavadgItAmAlAmaMtrasya zrIgavAn vedavyAsa RSiH || anuSTup chaMdaH || zrIkRSNaparamAtmAdevatA azocyananvazocas tvaM prajJAvAdAMz ca bhASaseti bIjaM ||
Explicit:f.<5v>
Final rubric:f.<6r> iti nyAsa ||
Colophon:
Filiation:
Second folio:Don't understand
Signatures:Don't understand
Language:Sanskrit in Devanagari script

Work 2 (complete)

Locus:6r
Author:kfzRa dvEpAyana vyAsa
Title:mahABArata
Part:bhagavadgItA
Cover rubric:
Incipit:f.<6r>
Explicit:f.<162v>
Final rubric:f.<162v> iti zrIbhagavadgItAsUpaniSatsu vrahmavidyAyAM yogazAstre zrIkRSNArjunasaMvAde mokSasaMnyAsayogo nAma aSTAdazo dhyAyaH ||18||
Colophon:f.<162v> saMvat 1841 || kAtIka madhye lISItvA brAhAhmaNakRSNadaMtaH paThanArtha kAsIdAsa vaiSNavavairagI ||
Filiation:
Second folio:Don't understand
Signatures:Don't understand
Language:Sanskrit in Devanagari script

Physical description

Form:folia
Material:paper
Watermark:
Extent:164
Foliation:163 leaves, foliated 1-154, then 155-156 but there were foliated 156-157 and a new number added, 157, 158-163 {some correction of numbering}.
1-163
Collation:
Condition:Toward the end of the manuscript, the red ink is pretty much washed off and the black ink is wearing off.
Accompanying matter:

Hands

Summary:
Additions:

Mistakes covered over with yellow. Marginal corrections by a hand other than the scribe's.

Decoration

History

Color:Invocation colophons and part of final colophon, introductions of speakers, and double daṇḍas in red. Mistakes covered over with yellow. Marginal corrections by a hand other than the scribe's.
Border:
Illustration:Attractive design, in red, on
Origin: saMvat 1841 [=1784; (not 1768, DN)]
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:


f. 1v:

||
zrIgaNezAya namaH ||

oM namo bhagavate vAsudevAya ||
oM
asya zrIbhagavadgItAmAlAmaMtrasya zrI<bha>
Note: destroyed by hole
gavAn vedavyAsa RSiH ||
anuSTup chaMdaH ||
zrIkRSNaparamAtmAdevatA azocyananvazocas tvaM prajJAvAdAMz ca bhASaseti bIjaM ||[...]

f. 5v:

dhyAnAvasthitatadgatena manasA pazyaMti yaM yogino
yasyAMttaM na viduH surAsuragaNA devAya tasmai namaH ||
iti nyAsa || mū:


f. 6r:
dhRtarASTra uvAca ||
dharmakSetre [...] (MBh. 06.023.001, numbered 1)

f. 162v:

[...] nItir matir mama ||78||
hariH (Mbh. 06.040.078)
iti zrIbhagavadgItAsUpaniSatsu vrahmavidyAyAM yogazAstre zrIkRSNArjunasaMvAde mokSasaMnyAsayogo nAma aSTAdazo dhyAyaH ||18||
yAdRSTaM pustakaM dRSTvA tAdRzaM laSItaM mayA
yadi sudhaMmasudhaM vA mama doSo na deyate 1 ||
saMvat 1841 ||
kAtIka madhye lISItvA brAhAhmaNakRSNadaM
Note: ? partly erased
taH paThanArtha kAsIdAsa vaiSNavavairagI ||
zrI

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 .