Manuscript Identifiers

Collection:UPenn Ms. Coll. 390
Item:559
Repository:Rare Book & Manuscript Library
Institution:University of Pennsylvania
Location:Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Catalog:Poleman
Item:947

Contents

Work 1

Locus:ff. 1r–90v (complete)
Title:Bhagavadgītā
Cover rubric: f. 1r:
.. atha bhaga()dgītāprāraṁbhaḥ ..
Colophon: f. 90r:
saṁvat 1851 maticetasudi
7 dine saṁpūrṇaṁḥ ..
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.

Language:Sanskrit in Devanāgarī script

   Work 1.1

   Locus:ff. 1v–4r (complete)
   Title:Bhagavadgītā Preface
   Incipit: f. 1v:
asya śrībhagavadgītāmālā
maṁtrasya śrībhagavān vedavyāsa ṛṣiḥ
   Explicit: f3v-f4r:

yaṁ brahmā va
ruṇeṁdrarudramarutaḥ stunvaṁti divyaiḥ stavair vedaiḥ sāṁgapadakramopa
niṣadair gāyaṁti yaṁ sāmagāḥ ..
dhyānāvasthitatadgatena manasā pa
śyaṁti yaṁ yogino yasyāṁtaṁ na viduḥ surāsuragaṇā devāya tasmai na
maḥ ..9..
Note:
BhG. Preface 4.2
   Final rubric: f. 4r:
iti nyāsaḥ ..
   Colophon:None

   Work 1.2

   Locus:ff. 4r–90r (complete)
   Author:Kṛṣṇa Dvaipāyana Vyāsa
   Title:Bhagavadgītā
   Incipit: f. 4r:
dhṛtarāṣṭra uvāca ..
dharmakṣetre kurukṣetre
samavetā yuyutsavaḥ ..
māmakāḥ pāṇḍavāś caiva kim akurvata saṁja
ya ..1..
Note:
BhG. 1.1; MBh. 6.23.1
   Explicit: f. 90r:

yatra yogeśvaraḥ kṛṣṇo yatra pārtho dha
nurdharaḥ ..
tatra śrīr vijayo bhūtir dhruvā nītir matir mma
ma ..78..
Note:
BhG. 18.78; MBh. 6.40.78
   Final rubric: f. 90r:
iti śrībhagavadgītāsūpaniṣatsu vrahmavidyā
yāṁ yogaśāstre śrīkṛṣṇārjunasaṁvāde mokṣasaṁnyāsayogo
nāma 'ṣṭādaśo dhyāyaḥ ..18..
   Colophon:None

Physical description

Form:Folia
Material:Paper.
Extent:90
Dimension:10.4 x 18.7 cm
Collation: Single folios.
Condition:Very good condition, except folio 1 which is punctured, ragged, and water-stained but still clearly legible.
Binding: Unbound.
Layout:Written in 7 lines per page.

Hands

Hand 1:Written in clear, bold, erect, regular characters in straight lines.
Additions:

There are occasional marginal corrections.

Decoration

Color:Invocations, final rubric, colophon, introduction of speakers, and double daṇḍas are written in red. Mistakes are covered over with yellow.
Border:Vertical double red lines rule the left and right margins of the text on each page.

History

Origin:The colophon states that the manuscript was completed during the day on the 7th tithi of the bright fortnight in the month of maticeta in the year 1851 of the saṁvat era. The name of the month is unrecognizable, but the year corresponds to March 1794 – March 1795 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 – 18th century.
SubjectLC:Manuscripts – India – 18th century.
SubjectSL:Mahābhārata

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Transcription (Manuscript Layout)

f.1r
Line 1: .. atha bhaga()dgītāprāraṁbhaḥ .. work 1:
f.1v
Line 1: õ śrīgaṇeśāya namaḥ .. om

asya śrībhagavadgītāmālā
Line 2: maṁtrasya śrībhagavān vedavyāsa ṛṣiḥ anuṣṭup chaṁdaḥ .. śrī kṛṣṇaḥ
Line 3: paramātmā devatā .. aśocyā nanv aśocas tvaṁ prajñāvādāṁś ca bhā
Line 4: ṣaseti vījaṁ .. sarvadharmān parityajya mām ekaṁ śaraṇaṁ vraje iti
Line 5: śaktiḥ .. [

[
f.3v
Line 7: [ yaṁ brahmā va
f.4r
Line 1: ruṇeṁdrarudramarutaḥ stunvaṁti divyaiḥ stavair vedaiḥ sāṁgapadakramopa
Line 2: niṣadair gāyaṁti yaṁ sāmagāḥ .. dhyānāvasthitatadgatena manasā pa
Line 3: śyaṁti yaṁ yogino yasyāṁtaṁ na viduḥ surāsuragaṇā devāya tasmai na
Line 4: maḥ ..9..
iti nyāsaḥ ..
work 2:
dhṛtarāṣṭra uvāca .. dharmakṣetre kurukṣetre
Line 5: samavetā yuyutsavaḥ .. māmakāḥ pāṇḍavāś caiva kim akurvata saṁja
Line 6: ya ..1.. [
f.90r
Line 2: [ yatra yogeśvaraḥ kṛṣṇo yatra pārtho dha
Line 3: nurdharaḥ .. tatra śrīr vijayo bhūtir dhruvā nītir matir mma
Line 4: ma ..78..
iti śrībhagavadgītāsūpaniṣatsu vrahmavidyā
Line 5: yāṁ yogaśāstre śrīkṛṣṇārjunasaṁvāde mokṣasaṁnyāsayogo
Line 6: nāma 'ṣṭādaśo dhyāyaḥ ..18..
saṁvat 1851 maticetasudi
Line 7: 7 dine saṁpūrṇaṁḥ ..
Record revised:8 February 2012