Manuscript Identifiers

Collection:UPenn Ms. Coll. 390
Item:492
Repository:Rare Book & Manuscript Library
Institution:University of Pennsylvania
Location:Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Catalog:
Item:945

Work 1 (complete)

Locus:1v
Author:
Title:bhagavadgItA nyAsa
Part:
Cover rubric:atha bhagavadgItAprAraMbhaH
Incipit:f.<1> asya zrIbhagavadgItAmAlAmaMtrasya bhagavAnvedavyAsa RSiH ..
Explicit:
Final rubric:
Colophon:
Filiation:
Second folio:Don't understand
Signatures:Don't understand
Language:Sanskrit in Devanagari script

Work 2 (incomplete)

Locus:7r
Author:kfzRa dvEpAyana vyAsa
Title:mahABArata
Part:bhagavadgItA
Cover rubric:
Incipit:f.<7r>
Explicit:f.<177v>
Final rubric:
Colophon:f.<177v> zake ..1753.. zubhakRtanAmasaMvatsare adhikavaizAkhavadya ..8.. tavAsare .. tad dine gItAsamAptoyaMm .. lekhakapAThakadvayo zubhaM .. idaM pUsta
Filiation:
Second folio:Don't understand
Signatures:Don't understand
Language:Sanskrit in Devanagari script

Physical description

Form:folia
Material:paper
Watermark:
Extent:180
Foliation:not noted
I: 1-6; II: 7-15, 133-178, 180
Collation:single folia
Condition:Fair-Good. The script is in very good shape, though the paper is worn away on the left side, but affects the text only marginally. The worst folio is 15, but this is missing only 4-5 akSaras at bottom.
Binding:

none

Accompanying matter:

Hands

Summary:
Hand 1:

Clearly written akzaras

Additions:

Notation on the final folio, f. 180zlokaiko dhRtarASTrasya navaduryodhanasya ca .. dvAtriMzatasaMjayenoktAvedASTAvarjunasya ca ..1.. tatvAvabodhevedAbdhipaMcazrIkRSNAnirmitAH ..2.. evaM gItA pramANaMtu zlokAH saptazatAni ca ..2.. dhRtarASTraH 1 .. duryodhanaH ..9.. saMjayaH ..32.. arjunaH ..84.. zrIkRSNaH ..574.. eveMsaMkhyA ..700

Decoration

History

Color:Invocation, colophons, part of final colophon, introduction of speakers and double daNDas in red. Mistakes covered over with yellow. text is badly mutilated, the left hand corners having been hacked off. On some folios the upper right hand corner is also missing. On most folios, though, the text is all there.
Border:not noted.
Illustration:
Origin: zake ..1753.. zubhakRtanAmasaMvatsare adhikavaizAkhavadya ..8.. tavAsare ..
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

SubjectSL:../TEI_MS/IndicSubjectClassification.xml#mahABArata ()

Facsimile



Transcription nyAsa null:

atha bhagavadgItAprAraMbhaH
zrIgaNezAya namaH .. oM
asya zrIbhagavadgItAmAlAmaMtrasya bhagavAnvedavyAsa RSiH .. [...] mū:
dhRtarASTra uvAca ..
dharmmakSetre kurukSetre [...]
pataMti pitaro hy eSAM luptapiM†??† (MBh. 6.23.42d-6.35.24a) ni pazyaMti ke cid AtmAnam AtmanA .
tatra zrIr vijayo bhUtir dhruvAnItir matir mama ..78..
hariH oM tat sad
iti zrImadbhagavadgItAsUpaniSatsU vrahmavidyAyAM yogazAstre zrISNArjunasaMvAde sakalopaniSad arthapradipAdakamokSasaMnyAsayogo namaSTAdazo dhyAya ..18..
zake ..1753.. zubhakRtanAmasaMvatsare adhikavaizAkhavadya ..8.. tavAsare .. tad dine gItAsamAptoyaMm .. lekhakapAThakadvayo zubhaM .. idaM pUsta (end of colophon, final rubric, etc.)

Changes

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Matthias AhlbornSeptember 2010In , edited the original encoding.
Peter M. Scharf???date mo.??? 2010edited the original encoding .