Collection: | UPenn Ms. Coll. 390 |
Item: | 2370 |
Repository: | Rare Book & Manuscript Library |
Institution: | University of Pennsylvania |
Location: | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America |
Catalog: | Poleman |
Item: | 966 |
Locus: | ff. 1r–87v (complete) |
Title: | The Bhagavadgītā with Śrīdharasvāmin's Bhagavadgītāsubodhinī |
Cover rubric: |
f. 1r: .. atha bhagavatsubodhinīṭīkāgītāprāraṁbhaḥ .. |
Colophon: |
ādarśadoṣān mativibhramād vā yacca[ṁ]vyaśu!t!dhaṁ likhitaṁ mayātra tat sarvam āryaiḥ pariśodhanīyaṁ prāyeṇa muhyaṁti budhā likhaṁtaḥ .. 1 mārgaśīrṣaśukladvitīyāyāṁ bhaume kṛttikākrūkṣe varyāhnayoge saṁ!mata!<vat> 1914 śake 1779 taddi!ni!<ne> ayodhyāyāṁ śrīramakṣetrasvargadvāre [śramya] bhagavadgītāyāḥ śrīdharasvāmikṛtāyāṁ ṭīkāyāṁ su bodhinyāṁ svasvātmabodhāya pa[pā]rārthaṁ vā dhāmudhaccavakṣademapustakaṁ !sigipaṁ!<samāptam> |
Note: |
The Bhagavadgītā is included in the text of the critical edition of the Mahābhārata at MBh. 6.23.1–6.40.78. Yet the text as an independent treatise typically includes a preface, consisting of a Nyāsa and Dhyāna as found in popular editions such as the Gītā Press edition, which is not included in the critical text and most of which is also absent from the critical apparatus. This manuscript also includes Śrīdhara's commentary. The manuscript ends with a colophon that includes a distinctive verse. While not generally found in Śrīdhara's works, the verse is also found in the colophon of UPenn 2627, which is a manuscript containing Śrīdhara's commentary Bhāgavatabhāvārthadīpikā on the Bhāgavatapurāṇa. |
Language: | Sanskrit in Devanāgarī script |
Locus: | ff. 1v–2r (complete) |
Title: | Bhagavadgītā Preface |
Incipit: |
f. 1v: asya śrībhaga<va>dgītā()lāmaṁtrasya .. śrībhagavān vedavyāsaṛṣiḥ .. |
Explicit: |
f. 2r: yaṁ brahmā varuṇeṁdrarudramaruta<ḥ> stunvaṁti divyai<ḥ> stavair vedaiḥ sāṁgapadakramopa niṣadair gāyaṁti yaṁ sāmagāḥ .. dhyānāvasthitatadgatena manasā paśyaṁti yaṁ yogino yasyāṁtaṁ na viduḥ surāsuragaṇā devāya tasmai namaḥ ..9.. Note: BhG. Preface 4.2 |
Final rubric: | none |
Colophon: | None |
Locus: | ff. 3r–86v (complete) |
Author: | Kṛṣṇa Dvaipāyana Vyāsa |
Title: | Bhagavadgītā |
Incipit: |
f. 3r: dhṛtarāṣṭra uvāca .. dharmakṣetre kurukṣetre samavetā yuyutsavaḥ .. māmakāḥ pāṁḍavāś cai() kim akurvata saṁjaya ..1.. Note: BhG. 1.1; MBh. 6.23.1 |
Explicit: |
f. 86v: yatra yogeśvaraḥ kṛṣṇo yatra pārtho dhanurdharaḥ .. tatra śrīr vijayo bhūti r dhruvā nītir matir mama ..78.. Note: BhG. 18.78; MBh. 6.40.78 |
Final rubric: |
f. 86v: iti saṁnyāsayogas tv aṣṭādaśaḥ 18 |
Colophon: | None |
Locus: | ff. 2v–87r (complete) |
Author: | Śrīdharasvāmin |
Incipit: |
f. 2v: śeṣāśeṣamukhavyākhyācāturyaṁ tv ekavatkrutaḥ .. dadhāna madbhutaṁ vaṁde paramānaṁdamādhavaṁ ..1.. śrīmādhavaṁ praṇamyo haṁ guruṁ viśveśam ādarāt .. tadbhakti yaṁtritaḥ kurve gītāvyākhyāṁ subodhinīṁ ..2.. |
Explicit: |
f. 87r: sva[vi]pragalbhya balād viloḍya bhagavadgītā tadaṁtargataṁ tatvaṁ prepsur upaiti kiṁ gurukṛpā pīyūṣadṛṣṭiṁ vinā .. aṁbusvāṁ jalinā nirasya jaladher āditsuraṁtarmaṇī .. nāvarteṣu nakiṁ nimajjati janaḥ satkarṇadhāraṁ vinā 3 |
Final rubric: |
f. 87r: iti bhagavadgītāṭīkāyāṁ
subodhinyāṁ śrīdharasvāmikṛtāyāṁ mokṣasanyāsayogā nāmā '[ṣṭamo]()dyāyaḥ 18 |
Colophon: | None |
Form: | Folia |
Material: | Paper. |
Extent: | 89 |
Dimension: | 12.3 x 38 cm |
Collation: | Single folios. |
Condition: | Excellent. |
Binding: | Unbound. |
Layout: | Written in 7–12 lines per page in an hour-glass arrangement with 1-5 lines of base text between 2–4 lines of commentary above and below. A line of text is sometimes continued into the margin. On f. 30r, however, the base text is embedded in-line in the commentary. |
Hand 1: | Written with a reed pen distinguishing stroke-thickness in clear, bold, regular characters tilted rightward in straight lines. |
Hand 2: | The smaller writing and the fact that double daṇḍas are written in red on f. 38v–f. 77v and are missing on f. 78r–f. 87r may indicate a change in hand. |
Additions: |
Mistakes covered over with white, crossed through with black, blocked out with black, or written over. There are marginal corrections. |
Color: | Double daṇḍas are written in red on f. 38v–f. 77v. Mistakes are sometimes covered over with white. Orange powder is rubbed in over final rubrics, numbers, introductions of speakers, some phrases, and some syllables. |
Border: | There are no borders. |
Origin: | The colophon states that the manuscript was completed on Tuesday, on the 2nd tithi of the bright fortnight in the month of mārgaśīrṣa in the year 1914 of the saṁvat era and 1779 of the śaka era, which corresponds to 18 November 1857 A.D. on the date of a conjunction not recognized by the editor in the constellation kṛttikā (kṛttikākrūkṣe varyāhnayoge). The manuscript was written for the scribe's own self-realization and for the purpose of others in {a}yoDyA, the door to heaven, the field of Rāma, and belonged to {D}AmuDaccavakzadema. |
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. ” |
SubjectLC: | Mahābhārata. |
SubjectLC: | Manuscripts, Sanskrit – 18th century. |
SubjectLC: | Manuscripts – India – 18th century. |
SubjectSL: | Mahābhārata |
Whole image | Individual pages |
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f. 1v,f. 2r | f. 1v f. 2r |
asya śrībhaga<va>dgītā()lāmaṁtrasya .. śrībhagavān vedavyāsaṛṣiḥ ..
Line 2:
anuṣṭubchaṁdaḥ ..
śrīkṛṣṇaparamātmā devatā ..
aśocyān anvaśocas tvaṁ prajñāvādāṁś ca bhāṣaseti bījaṁ ..
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tatra tāva!t! dharmakṣetra ityādinā viṣīdannidam abravīd ity aṁtena graṁthena śrīkṛṣṇārjunasaṁvādaprastāvāya kathā nirūpyate .. [
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