Manuscript Identifiers

Collection:UPenn Ms. Coll. 390
Item:559
Repository:Rare Book & Manuscript Library
Institution:University of Pennsylvania
Location:Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Catalog:
Item:947

Work 1 (complete)

Locus:1v
Author:kfzRa dvEpAyana vyAsa
Title:mahABArata
Part:bhagavadgItA nyAsa
Cover rubric:
Incipit:f.<1v>
Explicit:f.<3v>
Final rubric:f.<4r> iti nyAsaH ||
Colophon:
Filiation:
Second folio:Don't understand
Signatures:Don't understand
Language:Sanskrit in Devanagari script

Work 2 (complete)

Locus:4r
Author:kfzRa dvEpAyana vyAsa
Title:mahABArata
Part:bhagavadgItA
Cover rubric:
Incipit:f.<4r>
Explicit:f.<90r>
Final rubric:f.<90r> iti zrIbhagavadgItAsUpaniSatsu vrahmavidyAyAM yogazAstre zrIkRSNArjunasaMvAde mokSasaMnyAsayogo nAma 'STAdazo dhyAyaH ||18||
Colophon:f.<90r> saMvat 1851 maticetasudi 7 dne pUrNaH ||
Filiation:
Second folio:Don't understand
Signatures:Don't understand
Language:Sanskrit in Devanagari script

Physical description

Form:fola
Material:paper
Watermark:
Extent:90
Foliation:90 leaves, foliated 1-40, 41a, 41b, {textual continuity all over} 42-51, {textual continuity} 53-90.
1-40, 41[a], 41[b], 42-51, 53-90.
Collation:
Condition:Folio 1 slightly mutilated, but still very legible.
Accompanying matter:

Hands

Summary:
Additions:

Occasional marginal corrections.

Decoration

History

Color:Invocations, colophons, introduction of speakers and double daṇḍas in red. Mistakes covered over with yellow.
Border:
Illustration:
Origin: samvat 1851 [= 1794]
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:

||98||
zrIgaNezAya namaH ||
om asya zrIbhagavadgItAmAlAmaMtrasya zrIbhagavAn vedavyAsa RSiH anuSTup chaMdaH ||
zrI kRSNaH paramAtmA devatA ||
azocyA nanv azocas tvaM prajJAvAdAMz ca bhASaseti vIjaM ||
sarvadharmAn parityajya mAm ekaM zaraNaM vrajeti zaktiH ||
[...]
yaM brahmAvaruNeMdrarudramarutaH stunvaMti divyaiH stavair devaiH sAMgapadakramopaniSadair gAyaMti yaM sAmagAH ||
dhyAnAvasthitatadgatena manasA pazyaMti yaM yogino yasyAMtaM na viduH surAsuragaNA devAya tasmai namaH ||9||
iti nyAsaH || mū:
dhRtarASTra uvAca ||
dharmakSetre [...] (MBh. 06.023.001, numbered 1)
[...] nItir matir mmama ||78|| (Mbh. 06.040.078)
iti zrIbhagavadgItAsUpaniSatsu vrahmavidyAyAM yogazAstre zrIkRSNArjunasaMvAde mokSasaMnyAsayogo nAma 'STAdazo dhyAyaH ||18||
saMvat 1851 maticetasudi 7 dne pUrNaH ||

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 .