Manuscript Identifiers

Collection:UPenn Ms. Coll. 390
Item:2368
Repository:Rare Book & Manuscript Library
Institution:University of Pennsylvania
Location:Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Catalog:
Item:979

Work 1 (complete)

Locus:1v
Author:
Title:
Part:bhagavadgItA with the commentary of Hanumat
Cover rubric:
Incipit:
Explicit:
Final rubric:
Colophon:
Filiation:
Second folio:Don't understand
Signatures:Don't understand
Language:

Physical description

Form:folia
Material:paper
Watermark:
Extent:63
Foliation:
1-63
Collation:
Condition:very good- excellent, though hand writting is not great
Accompanying matter:

Hands

Summary:
Additions:

Mistakes covered over with yellow, blocked out with black. or infrequently only, written over. Marginal corrections.

Decoration

History

Color:Some mistakes covered over with yellow
Border:
Illustration:
Origin: Agastya "not given"
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.
SubjectLC:Manuscripts, Sanskrit -- 18th century.
SubjectLC:Manuscripts -- India -- 18th century.
SubjectSL:../TEI_MS/IndicSubjectClassification.xml#mahABarata ()

Facsimile

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Transcription aDyaya 24:
Commentary:

zrImadbhagavadgita[XXXX] bhaSyasya hanumadracitasya prarambho yam

f. 1v:

zrImahAgaNapataye namaH ||
zrIkRSNAya namaH ||
oMm ||
asya zAstrasya saMbaMdhAbhidheyaprayojanAny udhyaM te tAni ca gItAzAstra pratipAditAt paramAtmasaMbodhAM veti paramAtmasvarUpam abhidheyaM paramAtmanaH zAstrasya sAdhyasAdhanalakSaNasaMbaMdha iti viziSTasaMbaMdhAbhidheyaprayojanaM yatanmokSaNva [...]
azocyAn anvazocas tvaM prajAvAdAM[..] (BhG. 2.11) (MBh.6.24.11) aDyaya 40:
Commentary:

[...]iti zrImadbhagavadgItAbhAze hanumadiracite aSTAdazodhyAyaH ||18||
hariH oM bhubham astu |
zrIgurubhyonamaH |
zrIkRSNasya pAdAraviMdayor acaMcalAbhaktiprasAdasiddhir astu ||
||
ca ||
ca ||
ca ||
ca ||
ca ||
idaM pustakaM agastyeNalikhitaM ||
kAZIvizvezvarArpaNam astu ||
visargabiMdumAtrANi padapAdAkSarANi ca |
nyUnAni cAtiriktAni kSamasva paramezvara |
yad akSarapadabhraSTaM mAtrAhInaM tu yad bhavet |
tat sarvaM kSamyatAM deva nArAyaNa namo stute ||1||
ca ||
ca ||
janArdanakoMidevagAdragiLRayAM cepustaka ||
zrImahAdevAya namaH ||
zrI zamacaMdrAya namaH ||
||
zrIvAsudeva

Changes

PersonDateChange
Matthias AhlbornSeptember 2010In , filled MsDescPennTemplate.xml with data in Benjamin Flemings OriginalData.txt file and data in mbh_bhp.xml collected by David Nelson.