Collection: | UPenn Ms. Coll. 390 |
Item: | 2228 |
Repository: | Rare Book & Manuscript Library |
Institution: | University of Pennsylvania |
Location: | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America |
Catalog: | Poleman |
Item: | 986 |
Catalog: | Poleman |
Item: | 1371 |
Locus: | ff. 1r–2v |
Author: | Kṛṣṇa Dvaipāyana Vyāsa |
Title: | Saptaślokīgītā |
Cover rubric: |
f. 1r
saptaślokigītā |
Incipit: |
f. 1v
śrī[ga]bhagavān uvāca õm ity ekākṣaraṁ vrahma vyāharan mām anusmaran .. yaḥ prayāti tyajan dehaṁ sa yāti paramāṁ gatim ..1.. ( BhG. 8.13= MBh. 6.30.13 ) (Anuṣṭubh) |
Explicit: |
f. 2r–f. 2v
manmanā bhava madbhakto madyājī māṁ namasku ru . mām evaiṣyasi satyaṁ te pratijāne priyo si me ..7.. ( BhG. 18.65= MBh. 6.40.65 ) (Anuṣṭubh) yo māṁ gītā samūhena stotum ichati pāṁḍava .. so haṁ vai saptabhiḥ ślo[kī](kai)<ḥ> stuta eva na saṁśayaḥ .. (Anuṣṭubh) |
Final rubric: |
f. 2v
śrīkṛṣṇārjunasaṁvāde saptaślokīgītā samāptaḥ .. |
Colophon: | none |
Note: |
The Saptaślokīgītā consists of a selection of seven verses from the Bhagavadgītā. Some versions add an introductory verse that gives the pratīkas of the seven verses, and a final phalaśruti verse. The seven core verses from the Bhagavadgītā are included in the text of the critical edition of the Mahābhārata at BhG. 8.9, MBh. 6.30.09 ; BhG. 8.13, MBh. 6.30.13 ; BhG. 11.36, MBh. 6.33.36 ; BhG. 13.13, MBh. 6.35.13 ; BhG. 15.1, MBh. 6.37.1 ; BhG. 15.15, MBh. 6.37.15 ; BhG. 18.65, MBh. 6.40.65 . The introductory and final verses are not included in the critical text or the critical apparatus. The present manuscript includes the final phalaśruti verse but not the introductory verse. |
Language: | Sanskrit in Devanāgarī script |
Locus: | ff. 2v–3v |
Title: | Catuḥślokīsaṁhitā |
Incipit: |
f. 2v
śrīśuka uvāca .. jñānaṁ paramaguhyaṁ me yad vijñānasamanvitaṁ .. sarahasyaṁ tadaṁgaṁ ca gṛhāṇa gaditaṁ mayā ..1.. ( BhP. 2.9.30 ) (Anuṣṭubh) |
Explicit: |
f. 3v
etan mataṁ samātiṣṭha parameṇa samādhinā .. bhavān kalpavikalpeṣu na vimuhyati karhi cit ..7.. ( BhP. 2.9.36 ) (Anuṣṭubh) |
Final rubric: |
f. 3v
iti śrī(ma)dbhāgavate mahāpurāṇe catuḥślokīsaṁhitā samāptaḥ .. |
Colophon: |
f. 3v
saṁvat ..1862.. śāke ..1727.. caitre māsi |
Note: | Although the term catuḥślokī means 'consisting of four verses', the Cataḥślokīsaṁhitā consists of a selection of seven verses from the Bhāgavatapurāṇa included in the text of the 1965 edition of the text at BhP. 2.9.30–36. In UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 2514, it is called Catuḥślokībhāgavata. |
Language: | Sanskrit in Devanāgarī script |
Form: | Folia |
Material: | Country-made paper |
Extent: | 3 folia |
Dimension: | 10.9 x 16.7 cm (h x w) |
Foliation: | Foliated in the upper left and lower right margins on the verso of each folio. |
Formula: | 1–3 |
Signatures: | gītā appears above the folio number in the upper left margin on f. 2v, and above the folio number in the lower right margin on f. 1v. |
Collation: | Single folia |
Condition: | Good condition with browned leaves. The first folio has frayed edges. |
Binding: | Unbound |
Seal: | A circular stamp on the right of f. 1r reads Library University Pennsylvania. |
Layout: | Written in 7–9 lines per page, except the last, f. 3v, which has 4 lines. |
Additions: |
Double daṇḍas are added in grey as is a correction on f. 2v, line 3. The rubric on f. 1r and the signature gītā in the upper left margin on f. 1v and f. 3v were added by a different hand. Erroneous syllables are marked with short perpendicular strokes. A single marginal addition appears on f. 2v, and an interlinear addition on f. 3v. |
Color: | Orange used to highlight invocations, speakers, final rubrics, the colophon, verse numbers, and the margin border. |
Border: | Vertical double lines, highlighted with orange, rule the left and right margins of the text on each page. |
Origin: | The colophon states that the manuscript was completed in the month of caitra in the year 1862 of the saṁvat era and 1727 of the śaka era, which corresponds with April 1805 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. |
SubjectLC: | Mahābhārata – Bhagavadgītā. |
SubjectLC: | Puranas – Bhāgavatapurāṇa – Catuḥślokīsaṃhitā. |
SubjectLC: | Manuscripts, Sanskrit – 19th century. |
SubjectLC: | Manuscripts – India – 19th century. |
SubjectSL: | Mahābhārata |
Whole image | Individual pages | |
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f. 1r | f. 1r | |
f. 1v, f. 2r | f. 1v f. 2r | |
f. 2v, f. 3r | f. 2v f. 3r |
Whole image | Individual pages | |
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f. 2v, f. 3r | f. 2v f. 3r | |
f. 3v | f. 3v |