Manuscript Identifiers

Collection:UPenn Ms. Coll. 390
Item:2366
Repository:Rare Book & Manuscript Library
Institution:University of Pennsylvania
Location:Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Catalog:
Item:963

Work 1 (complete)

Locus:2v
Author:kfzRa dvEpAyana vyAsa
Title:mahABArata
Part:bhagavadgItA
Cover rubric:
Incipit:f.<2v>
Explicit:f.<[242]r>
Final rubric:f.<[243]v> iti zrImahAbhArate bhISmaparvaNi bhavadgItAsUpaniSatsu brahmavidyAyAM yogazAstre zrIkRSNArjjunasaMvAde mokSasaMnyAsayogo nAma aSTAdazo dhyAyaH ||18|| samAtyeyaM gItA
Colophon:
Filiation:
Second folio:Don't understand
Signatures:Don't understand
Language:Sanskrit in Devanagari script

Work 2 (complete)

Locus:2v
Author:SrIDarasvAmin
Title:
Part:
Cover rubric:
Incipit:f.<2v> zrIbhagavate vAsuvA de ya namaH || zeSAzeSamukhavyAkhyAcAturyaM
Explicit:f.<[242]r> satkarNadhAraM vinA ||3||
Final rubric:f.<[242]r> iti subodhinyAM zrIdharasvAmiviracitAyAM aSTAdaza ||18|| zlokaikaM dhRta[A]rASTrasya navaduyodhanasya ca dvAtriMzat saMjayasyoktA vedASTAv arjunasya ca ||1|| jJAnAvabodho vedAbdhi paMca kezavanirmitAH || gItAgraMthapramANaM syAd evaM saptazatAni ca ||
Colophon:
Filiation:
Second folio:Don't understand
Signatures:Don't understand
Language:Sanskrit in Devanagari script

Physical description

Form:folia
Material:Country-made paper.
Watermark:
Extent:242
Foliation:242 leaves, foliated 1-32, {continuity} 34-68, [69-92, 93-103, 104-115, 116-127, 128-144, 145-150, {adh 13} 151-162, {adh 14} 163-174 BUT is numbered individually as 1-12, {adh 15} numbered individually 1-10 = 175-184, {adhy 16} numbered individually 1-9 = 185-193, {adh 17} numbered individually 1-15 = 194-208, {adh 18} numbered 1-35 = 209-243. Some foliation no.s added by another hand.
I: 1-32; II: 34-68; III: [69-92]; IV: 93-103; V: 104-115; VI: 116-127; VII: 128-144; VIII: 145-150; IX: [adh 13] 151-162; X: [adh 14] 1-12; XI: [adh 15] 1-10; XII: [adhy 16] 1-9; XIII: [adh 17] 1-15, XIV: [adh 18] 1-35
Collation:
Condition:Legible
Accompanying matter:

Hands

Summary:
Additions:

Yellow pigment used to erase text. Orange powder used to highlight certain verse numbers, colophons, and introduction of speakers--not used consistently. In addition to the main numbering, often done by another hand, there is also sometimes individual numbering of sections covering a specific chapter of the BG.

Occasional marginalia.

Chapter 14 -- red ink is used to mark word boundaries, mainly in the mUla, but also in the commentary a bit. Some words are then numbered, also in red, but the reason or system behind the numbering is not clear.

Decoration

History

Color:Yellow pigment used to erase text. Orange powder used to highlight certain verse numbers, colophons, and introduction of speakers--not used consistently.
Border:
Illustration:
Origin: 19--
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 -- 19th century.
SubjectLC:Manuscripts -- India -- 19th century.
SubjectSL:../TEI_MS/IndicSubjectClassification.xml#mahABarata ()

Facsimile

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Transcription parvan 6:
aDyAya 23:
mū:


f. 2v:
dhRtarASTra uvAca ||
dharmakSetre [...] (MBh. 06.023.001)
zrIgaNezAya namaH ||
zrIbhagavate vAsuvA
Note: [TK] with a '2' above it
de
Note: with a '1' above it
ya namaH ||
zeSAzeSamukhavyAkhyAcAturyaM chapter 40:


f. [242]r:
mū:

[...] nItir matir mamama ||78|| (Mbh. 06.040.078)

f. f. [243]v:

iti zrImahAbhArate bhISmaparvaNi bha(ga)vadgItAsUpaniSatsu brahmavidyAyAM yogazAstre zrIkRSNArjjunasaMvAde mokSasaMnyAsayogo nAma aSTAdazo dhyAyaH ||18||

samAtyeyaM gItA

f. [242]r:

[...] satkarNadhAraM vinA ||3||
iti subodhinyAM zrIdharasvAmiviracitAyAM aSTAdaza ||18||
zlokaikaM dhRta[A]rASTrasya nava duyodhanasya ca dvAtriMzat saMjayasyoktA vedASTAv arjunasya ca ||1||
jJAnAvabodho vedAbdhi paMca kezavanirmitAH ||
gItAgraMthapramANaM syAd evaM saptazatAni ca ||

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 .