Manuscript Identifiers

Collection:UPenn Ms. Coll. 390
Item:2199
Repository:Rare Book & Manuscript Library
Institution:University of Pennsylvania
Location:Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Catalog:Poleman
Item:953

Contents

Work 1

Locus:ff. 1v-6r (complete)
Author:kṛṣṇa dvaipāyana vyāsa
Title:mahābhārata
Part:bhagavadgītā nyāsa
Incipit: f. 1v:
oṃ asyaśrībhagavadgītāmālāmaṃtrasya bhagavān vedavyāsa ṛṣiḥ anuṣṭup chaṃdaḥ śrī kṛṣṇaparamātmā devatā | aśocān anvaśocas tvaṃ prajñāvādāṃś ca bhāṣaseti vījaṃ || sarvadharmān parityajya mām ekaṃ śaraṇaṃ vrajeti śaktiḥ ||
Explicit: f. 6r:
kṛṣṇāṃ kamalapatrākhyaṃ puṇyaḥ śravaṇakīrtanāt ||
vāsudevaṃ jagadyoniṃ nomi
Note: [TK} should be: naumi
> nārāyaṇo hariṃ ||10|| ||
Final rubric: f. 6r:
iti kavacaṃ samāptaṃ || śrīdavyā
Language:Sanskrit in Devanagari script

Work 2

Locus:ff. 1v-104r (complete)
Author:kṛṣṇa dvaipāyana vyāsa
Title:mahābhārata
Part:bhagavadgītā
Incipit: f. 6v:
oṃ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya || dhṛtarāṣṭra uvāca || dharmakṣetre ...
(MBh. 06.023.001, numbered 1)
Explicit: f.103v:
... nīti matir mama ||78||
(Mbh. 06.040.078)
Final rubric: 104r:
iti śrīmadbhagavadgītāsūpaniṣatsu brahmavidyāyāṃ yogaśāstre śrīkṛṣṇārjunasaṃvāde mokṣayogo nāmāṣṭādaśo dhyāyaḥ ||18||
Colophon: f. 104r:
sādhāraṇatsaṃvatsare
Note: [TK} two aks. erased
aṣāśuddhatrodaśī 13 maṃdavāsare taddinedaṃ pukaṃ
Note: with a '2' above it
sta
Note: with a '1' above it
nārāyaṇedaṃ pustaka || śrīlakṣmīnṛsimahaḥ prītāṃ
Language:Sanskrit in Devanagari script

Physical description

Form:folia
Material:European paper, browned, chain lines, watermark.
Watermark:Big shield with crown on top, but only top preserved. And bottom on some leaves.
Extent:104
Dimension:10.6 x 15.1 cm
Foliation:104 leaves, foliated 1-103, [104]
formula: 1-103, [104]
Condition:Some of the lettering is a bit blotchy.
Layout:Written in 7-9 lines per leaf.

Decoration

Color:From folios 17-102 colophons and some introductions of speakers are in brown and double daṇḍas are in brown or pink. Some marginal additions in brown. Mistakes covered over with yellow throughout. Orange powder rubbed in over numbers through folio 16, over final colophon, and over most of the introductions of speakers.

History

Origin: 17--
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 -- 18th century.
SubjectLC:Manuscripts -- India -- 18th century.

Facsimile

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Transcription

nyAsa :
f. 1v:
|| śrīgaṇeśāya namaḥ || oṃ asyaśrībhagavadgītāmālāmaṃtrasya bhagavān vedavyāsa ṛṣiḥ anuṣṭup chaṃdaḥ śrī kṛṣṇaparamātmā devatā | aśocān anvaśocas tvaṃ prajñāvādāṃś ca bhāṣaseti vījaṃ || sarvadharmān parityajya mām ekaṃ śaraṇaṃ vrajeti śaktiḥ || ...
f. 6r:
kṛṣṇāṃ kamalapatrākhyaṃ puṇyaḥ śravaṇakīrtanāt ||
vāsudevaṃ jagadyoniṃ nomi
Note: [TK} should be: naumi
> nārāyaṇo hariṃ ||10|| || cha || cha || cha || iti kavacaṃ samāptaṃ || śrīdavyā mū:
f. 6v:
oṃ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya || dhṛtarāṣṭra uvāca || dharmakṣetre ...
(MBh. 06.023.001, numbered 1)
f. 103v:
... nīti matir mama ||78||
(Mbh. 06.040.078)
f. [104r]v:
>iti śrīmadbhagavadgītāsūpaniṣatsu brahmavidyāyāṃ yogaśāstre śrīkṛṣṇārjunasaṃvāde mokṣayogo nāmāṣṭādaśo dhyāyaḥ ||18|| sādhāraṇatsaṃvatsare
Note: [TK} two aks. erased
aṣāśuddhatrodaśī 13 maṃdavāsare taddinedaṃ pukaṃ
Note: with a '2' above it
sta
Note: with a '1' above it
nārāyaṇedaṃ pustaka || śrīlakṣmīnṛsimahaḥ prītāṃ
Record revised:???date mo.??? 2010