Manuscript Identifiers

Collection:UPenn Ms. Coll. 390
Item:2390
Repository:Rare Book & Manuscript Library
Institution:University of Pennsylvania
Location:Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Catalog:Poleman
Item:958

Contents

Work 1

Locus:ff. 2r-62r (incomplete)

   Work 1.1

   Locus:2r-3v (incomplete)
   Incipit: f. 2r:
bhyo mokṣayiṣyāmi mā śuceti kīlakaṃ nainaṃ chiṃdaṃti śastrāṇi nainaṃ dahati pāvaka ity aṃguṣṭābhyāṃ namaḥ ...
   Final rubric: f. 3v:
iti śrībhaga{va}dgītā nyāsa samāptam ||
   Language:Sanskrit in Devanagari script

   Work 1.2

   Locus:ff. 3v-62r (complete)
   Author:kṛṣṇa dvaipāyana vyāsa
   Title:mahābhārata
   Part:bhagavadgītā
   Incipit: f. 3v:
dhṛtarāṣṭra uvāca | ...
(BhG. 1.1)
   Explicit: f. 62r:
...
(BhG. 18.78)
   Final rubric: f. 62r:
iti śrībhagavadgītāsūpaniṣatsu brahmavidyāyāṃ yogaśāstre śrīkṛṣṇārjunasaṃvāde mokṣasaṃnyāsayogo nāmāṣṭādaśodhyāyaḥ || 18 || 700 ||
   Colophon: f. 62r:
saṃvata || 1757 | samaye || mādrake śukla paṃcamyāṃ guvānvita śubhapradāṃ ||
caturbhujena tatraiva śrīmadgītā pralekhitā ||1|| harigoviṃdapaṭhanārthaṃ saptasataślok [XXXX] dhinī śrīmadbhagavadgītā samāpta || śrīkṛṣṇaśaṃta |
   Language:Sanskrit in Devanagari script

Physical description

Form:folia
Material:paper
Extent:61
Dimension:10.2 x 22.2 cm
Foliation: formula: 2-62
Condition:Fair. Lacks beginning. The folios are fairly brown. fol. "3" has text lifted off obscuring a few of the akSaras on lines 2, 5-7. Beginning at folio 17 and continuing to folio 35, there is a lot of damage to the paper on the right margin and into the text. Possibly caused by insects of some kind. Folios 36-62 are readable.

Decoration

Color:Introductions of speakers, double daNDas, some numbers, colophons, every other syllable of other colophons, and only part of final colophon, in red. Mistakes couvered over with yellow.
Illustration:The f. 62r:
has an interesting device in red, yellow, brown, and black, bordering the text on both its right and left. The folio is slightly damaged, though.

History

Origin:"not given" saMvat 1757 [= 1700]
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.
SubjectLC:Manuscripts, Sanskrit -- 18th century.
SubjectLC:Manuscripts -- India -- 18th century.

Facsimile

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Transcription

nyAsa :
f. 2r:
bhyo mokṣayiṣyāmi mā śuceti kīlakaṃ nainaṃ chiṃdaṃti śastrāṇi nainaṃ dahati pāvaka ity aṃguṣṭābhyāṃ namaḥ ...
f. 3v:
... iti śrībhaga{va}dgītā nyāsa samāptam || mū:
f. 3v:
dhṛtarāṣṭra uvāca | ...
(BhG. 1.1)
f. 62r:
...
(BhG. 18.78) iti śrībhagavadgītāsūpaniṣatsu brahmavidyāyāṃ yogaśāstre śrīkṛṣṇārjunasaṃvāde mokṣasaṃnyāsayogo nāmāṣṭādaśodhyāyaḥ || 18 || 700 || saṃvata || 1757 | samaye || mādrake śukla paṃcamyāṃ guvānvita śubhapradāṃ ||
caturbhujena tatraiva śrīmadgītā pralekhitā ||1|| harigoviṃdapaṭhanārthaṃ saptasataślok [XXXX] dhinī śrīmadbhagavadgītā samāpta || śrīkṛṣṇaśaṃta |
Record revised:???date mo.??? 2010