Manuscript Identifiers

Collection:UPenn Ms. Coll. 390
Item:773
Repository:Rare Book & Manuscript Library
Institution:University of Pennsylvania
Location:Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Catalog:Poleman
Item:948

Contents

Work 1

Locus:? (complete)
Part:bhāgavadgītā nyāsa
Incipit: ?:
asya śrībhagavadgītāmālāmantrasya bhagavān vedavyāsa ṛṣiḥ | anuṣṭup chandaḥ | śrīkṛṣṇaparamātmā devatā | aśocyān anvaśocas tvaṃ prajñāvādāṃś ca bhāṣase iti bījam | sarvadharmān parityajya mām ekaṃ śaraṇaṃ brajeti śaktiḥ || ahaṃ tvāṃ sarvapāpebhyo mokṣayiṣyāmi mā śucaḥ iti kīlakam || ...
Language:Sanskrit in Devanagari script

Work 2

Locus:??? (incomplete)
Author:kṛṣṇa dvaipāyana vyāsa
Title:mahābhārata
Part:bhāgavadgītā
Incipit: dhṛtarāṣṭra uvāca | dharmakṣetre kurukṣetre | samavetā yuyutsavaḥ ...
Explicit: f. 59v:
sādhibhūtādhidaivaṃ māṃ sādhiyajṅaṃ ca ye viduḥ ||
pra-
(MBh. 06.029.030)
(BhG. 7.30)
Language:Sanskrit in Devanagari script

Physical description

Form:folia
Material:paper
Extent:64
Dimension:10.1 x 16 cm
Foliation:foliated 1-59 with 5 blank folios interspersed throughout
Collation:Was bound as a book on left (short) side prior to writing of text.
Condition:good

Decoration

Color:Colophons and introduction of speakers are either in gold lettering outlined by red, or in red. Double daṇḍas are in red. The third and fourth sides of text are surrounded with ornamental devices in gold, purple, and red, and the lines alternate red, gold, black; gold red, black; and black red, gold; black, gold, red. The first and second sides have only three lines per side in red, gold, black and black, gold, and red respectively, and are surrounded by the same ornamental device which is here bordered in black, and surrounded by an ornamental device in tan, gold, and orange on a background of blue and gold with black, gold, and red lines bordering it. Orange powder is rubbed in over numbers through folio 10. Mistakes are covered over with yellow.

History

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 :
oṃ namo bhagavate vāsdevāya asya śrībhagavadgītāmālāmantrasya bhagavān vedavyāsa ṛṣiḥ | anuṣṭup chandaḥ | śrīkṛṣṇaparamātmā devatā | aśocyān anvaśocas tvaṃ prajñāvādāṃś ca bhāṣase iti bījam | sarvadharmān parityajya mām ekaṃ śaraṇaṃ brajeti śaktiḥ || ahaṃ tvāṃ sarvapāpebhyo mokṣayiṣyāmi mā śucaḥ iti kīlakam || ... mū:
dhṛtarāṣṭra uvāca | dharmakṣetre kurukṣetre | samavetā yuyutsavaḥ ...
f. 59v:
sādhibhūtādhidaivaṃ māṃ sādhiyajṅaṃ ca ye viduḥ ||
pra-
(MBh. 06.029.030)
(BhG. 7.30)
Record revised:???date mo.??? 2010