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:Poleman
Item:945

Contents

Work 1

Locus:ff. 0r, 1–15, 133–178, [179], 180–181v (incomplete)
Title:Bhagavadgītā
Cover rubric: f. [0]r:
atha bhagavadgītāprāraṁbhaḥ

   Work 1.1

   Locus:ff. 1v–6v (complete)
   Title:Bhagavadgītā Preface
   Incipit: f. 1v:
asya śrībhagavadgī
tāmālāmaṁtrasya bhagavān vedavyāsa ṛṣiḥ
..
   Explicit: f. 1v:

yaṁ brahmā varuṇeṁdrarudramarutaḥ stu
nvaṁti divyaiḥ stavair vedaiḥ sāṁgapadakramopani
ṣadair gāyaṁti yaṁ sāmagāḥ ..
dhyānāvasthita
tadgatena manasā paśyaṁti yaṁ yogino yasyāṁ
taṁ na viduḥ surāsuragaṇā devāya tasmai namaḥ ..9..
Note:
BhG. Preface 4.2
   Final rubric:none
   Colophon:None

   Work 1.2

   Locus:ff. 7r–15, 133–178v (incomplete)
   Author:Kṛṣṇa Dvaipāyana Vyāsa
   Title:Bhagavadgītā
   Incipit: f. 7r:
dhṛtarāṣṭra uvāca ..
dharmakṣetre kurukṣetre sa
mavetā yuyutsavaḥ ..
māmakāḥ pāṁḍavāś caiva
kim akurvata saṁjaya ..1..
Note:
BhG. 1.1; MBh. 6.23.1
   Explicit: f177r-f177v:

yatra yoge
śvaraḥ kṛṣṇo yatra pārtho dhanurdharaḥ ..
tatra
śrīr vijayo bhūtir dhruvā nītir matir mama ..78..
Note:
BhG. 18.78; MBh. 6.40.78
   Final rubric: f177v-f178r:
iti śrīmadbhagavadgītāsū
paniṣatsu brahmavidyāyāṁ yogaśāstre śrī
<kṛ>ṣṇārjunasaṁvāde sakalopaniṣadarthapra
!di!<ti>pādakamokṣasaṁnyāsayogo nāma a
ṣṭādaśo dhyāya ..18..
   Colophon: f. 178r:
śake ..1753..
śubhakṛtanāmasaṁvatsare .. adhikavaiśā
khavadya ..8.. jñavāsare .. taddine gītāsa
māpto yaṁm .. lekhakapāṭhakadvayo śubhaṁ ..
idaṁ pūsta
   Final rubric: f. 178v:
.. śrīmadbhagavadgītā samāptaḥ ..

   Work 1.3

   Locus:f180r-f180v (complete)
   Title:Accounting
   Incipit: f. 180r:

ślokaiko dhṛtarāṣṭrasya nava duryodhanasya
ca ..
dvātriṁśat saṁjayenoktā vedāṣṭāv arju
nasya ca ..1..
   Explicit: f. 180v:
evaṁ saṁkhyā ..700
   Colophon:None
Final rubric: f. 181v:
.. śrīmadbhagavadgītā samāptaḥ ..
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 an accounting of the verses spoken by each character in the dialogue on f. 180rf. 180v. The manuscript is missing most of its folios, ff. 16–132, containing BhG. 1.42d–13.24a corresponding to MBh. 6.23.42d–6.35.24a. The gap interrupts BhG. 1.42d on f. 15v and resumes in BhG. 13.24a on f. 133r.

Language:Sanskrit in Devanāgarī script

Physical description

Form:Folia
Material:Paper.
Extent:65
Dimension:9.4 x 13.8 cm
Collation: Single folios.
Condition:Fair. The script is in very good shape; however, the paper is torn on the left side, which occasionally creates lacunae in the text. While the tears are usually confined to the left margin, several akṣaras in each of several verses in BhG. 1.28–42; MBh. 6.23.28–42 are missing on f. 13r, f. 13v, f. 14r, f. 14v, f. 15r, and f. 15v.
Binding: Unbound.
Layout:Written in five lines per page.

Hands

Hand 1:Written in clear, bold, regular characters tilted rightward in straight lines.akṣaras.
Additions:

There are no additions nor marginal corrections.

Decoration

Color:Invocation, final rubrics, introduction of speakers, and double daṇḍas are written in red. Mistakes are covered over with yellow.
Border:Two sets of vertical double red lines rule the left and right margins of the text on each page. A rectangular frame in red appears on f. [0]r:
and f. 181v.

History

Origin:The colophon states that the manuscript was completed on Thursday, on the 8th tithi of the dark fortnight in the intercalary month of vaiśākha in the year 1753, called śubhakṛta, of the śaka era, which corresponds with 5 May 1831 A.D.
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:Mahābhārata

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Transcription (Manuscript Layout)

f.0r
Line 1: atha bhagavadgītāprāraṁbhaḥ work 1:
f.1v
Line 1: śrīgaṇeśāya namaḥ .. õ

asya śrībhagavadgī
Line 2: tāmālāmaṁtrasya bhagavān vedavyāsa ṛṣiḥ
Line 3: .. [

[
f.6v
Line 1: [ yaṁ brahmā varuṇeṁdrarudramarutaḥ stu
Line 2: nvaṁti divyaiḥ stavair vedaiḥ sāṁgapadakramopani
Line 3: ṣadair gāyaṁti yaṁ sāmagāḥ .. dhyānāvasthita
Line 4: tadgatena manasā paśyaṁti yaṁ yogino yasyāṁ
Line 5: taṁ na viduḥ surāsuragaṇā devāya tasmai namaḥ ..9.. work 2:
f.7r
Line 1: dhṛtarāṣṭra uvāca .. dharmakṣetre kurukṣetre sa
Line 2: mavetā yuyutsavaḥ .. māmakāḥ pāṁḍavāś caiva
Line 3: kim akurvata saṁjaya ..1.. [
f.15v
Line 5: [ pataṁti pitaro hy eṣāṁ luptapiṁḍo <dakakriyāḥ ..42..> [missing 117 leaves, Missing folios 16–132 containing BhG. 1.42d–13.24a corresponding to
MBh. 6.23.42d–6.35.24a ] <dhyānenātma>
f.133r
Line 1: ni paśyaṁti ke cid ātmānam ātmanā .. anye
Line 2: sāṁkhyena yogena karmayogena cāpare ..
Line 3: 25 [
f.177r
Line 4: [ yatra yoge
Line 5: śvaraḥ kṛṣṇo yatra pārtho dhanurdharaḥ .. tatra
f.177v
Line 1: śrīr vijayo bhūtir dhruvā nītir matir mama ..78..
Line 2:
hariḥ õ tat sad iti śrīmadbhagavadgītāsū
Line 3: paniṣatsu brahmavidyāyāṁ yogaśāstre śrī
Line 4: <kṛ>ṣṇārjunasaṁvāde sakalopaniṣadarthapra
Line 5: !di!<ti>pādakamokṣasaṁnyāsayogo nāma a
f.178r
Line 1: ṣṭādaśo dhyāya ..18.. śake ..1753..
Line 2: śubhakṛtanāmasaṁvatsare .. adhikavaiśā
Line 3: khavadya ..8.. jñavāsare .. taddine gītāsa
Line 4: māpto yaṁm .. lekhakapāṭhakadvayo śubhaṁ ..
Line 5: idaṁ pūsta
f.178v
Line 1: .. śrīmadbhagavadgītā samāptaḥ ..
end :
f.180r
Line 1: ślokaiko dhṛtarāṣṭrasya nava duryodhanasya
Line 2: ca .. dvātriṁśat saṁjayenoktā vedāṣṭāv arju
Line 3: nasya ca ..1.. tatvāvabodhe vedābdhipaṁca śrī
Line 4: kṛṣṇānirmitāḥ ..2.. evaṁ gītā pramāṇaṁ
Line 5: tu ślokāḥ saptaśatāni ca ..2..

dhṛtarāṣṭraḥ
f.180v
Line 1: 1 .. duryodhanaḥ ..9.. saṁjayaḥ ..32.. arjunaḥ ..84.. śrīkṛṣṇaḥ ..574.. evaṁ saṁkhyā ..700


f.181v
Line 1:
.. śrīmadbhagavadgītā samāptaḥ ..
Record revised:8 February 2012