Manuscript Identifiers

Collection:UPenn Ms. Coll. 390
Item:2339
Repository:Rare Book & Manuscript Library
Institution:University of Pennsylvania
Location:Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Catalog:Poleman
Item:956

Contents

Work 1

Locus:ff. [0]r–89v (complete)
Title:Bhagavadgītā
Cover rubric: f. 1r:
atha bhagavadgītāprāraṁbhaḥ

   Work 1.1

   Locus:ff. 1v–4r (complete)
   Title:Bhagavadgītā Preface
   Incipit: f. 1v:
asya śrībhagavadgītāmālāmaṁtrasya ..
   Explicit: f3v-f4r:

yaṁ brahmā varuṇeṁdrarudramaruta<ḥ> stu
nvaṁti divyaiḥ stavair vedaiḥ sāṁgapadakramopaniṣadair gāyaṁ
ti yaṁ sāmagāḥ ..
dhyānāvasthitatadgatena manasā pa
śyaṁti[ti] yaṁ yogino yasyāṁtaṁ na viduḥ surāsuraga
ṇā devāya tasmai namaḥ ..9..
Note:
BhG. Preface 4.2
   Colophon:None

   Work 1.2

   Locus:ff. 4r–88v (complete)
   Author:Kṛṣṇa Dvaipāyana Vyāsa
   Title:Bhagavadgītā
   Incipit: f. 4r:
dhṛtarāṣṭra uvāca .. ..
dharmakṣetre kurukṣetre samavetā yuyutsavaḥ ..
māma
kāḥ pāṇḍavāś caiva kim akurvata saṁjaya ..1..
Note:
BhG. 1.1; MBh. 6.23.1
   Explicit: f. 88r:

yatra yogeśvaraḥ kṛṣṇo ya
tra pārtho dhanurdharaḥ ..
tatra śrīr vijayo bhū[tvar]tir dhru
vā nītir matir mama ..78..
Note:
BhG. 18.78; MBh. 6.40.78
   Final rubric: f88r-f88v:
iti śrīma
dbhagavadgītāsūpaniṣatsu brahmavidyāyāṁ yogaśā
stre śrīkṛṣṇārjunasaṁvāde mokṣasaṁnyāsayo
go nāma aṣṭādaśo dhyāyaḥ ..18..
   Colophon:None
Colophon: f. 88v:
.. śake 1712 sādhāraṇasaṁvat
pauṣaśuddhacaturthī taddinī ida pustakaṁ samāptaṁ
Final rubric: f. 89v:
iti bhagavadgītā samāptaḥ
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

Physical description

Form:Folia
Material:European paper.
Watermark:The watermark looks like a sun. It is accompanied by some text, but only an (mentioned: F) can be made out.
Extent:90
Dimension:10.3 x 15.2 cm
Collation: Single folios.
Condition:Very good with browned edges. There are water stains on the last several folios.
Binding: Unbound.
Layout:Written in 6–10 lines per page.

Hands

Hand 1:Written in clear bold characters tilted rightward in slightly wavy lines.
Additions:

Mistakes are covered over with yellow. Marginal corrections.

Decoration

Color:Mistakes are covered over with yellow. Orange powder is rubbed over the invocation, final rubrics, introductions of speakers, and numbers.
Border:Vertical double red lines rule the left and right margins of the text on each page. A rectangular frame in two sets of double red lines appears on f. 1r:
and f. 89v.

History

Origin:The colophon states that the manuscript was completed on the 4th tithi of the bright fortnight in the month of pauṣa in the year 1712, called sādhāraṇa, of the śaka era, which corresponds to Sunday, 9 January 1791 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.0r
Line 1: atha bhagavadgītāprāraṁbhaḥ work 1:
f.1v
Line 1: śrīgaṇeśāya namaḥ .. õ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya ..
Line 2:

asya śrībhagavadgītāmālāmaṁtrasya .. bhagavān ve
Line 3: davyāsa ṛṣiḥ .. anustup chaṁdaḥ .. [

[
f.3v
Line 9: [ yaṁ brahmā varuṇeṁdrarudramaruta<ḥ> stu
f.4r
Line 1: nvaṁti divyaiḥ stavair vedaiḥ sāṁgapadakramopaniṣadair gāyaṁ
Line 2: ti yaṁ sāmagāḥ .. dhyānāvasthitatadgatena manasā pa
Line 3: śyaṁti[ti] yaṁ yogino yasyāṁtaṁ na viduḥ surāsuraga
Line 4: ṇā devāya tasmai namaḥ ..9.. work 2:
dhṛtarāṣṭra uvāca .. ..
Line 5: dharmakṣetre kurukṣetre samavetā yuyutsavaḥ .. māma
Line 6: kāḥ pāṇḍavāś caiva kim akurvata saṁjaya ..1.. [
f.88r
Line 6: [ yatra yogeśvaraḥ kṛṣṇo ya
Line 7: tra pārtho dhanurdharaḥ .. tatra śrīr vijayo bhū[tvar]tir dhru
Line 8: vā nītir matir mama ..78..
õ tat sad iti śrīma
Line 9: dbhagavadgītāsūpaniṣatsu brahmavidyāyāṁ yogaśā
f.88v
Line 1: stre śrīkṛṣṇārjunasaṁvāde mokṣasaṁnyāsayo
Line 2: go nāma aṣṭādaśo dhyāyaḥ ..18..
end :
yadakṣara
Line 3: padabhraṣṭa mātrāhīnaṁ tu yad [[?]] bhavet .. tat sarvaṁ kṣa
Line 4: myatāṁ deva prasīda parameśvara ..1..

śrīkṛṣṇā
Line 5: rpaṇam astu .. śubhaṁ bhavatu .. śrīgajānanārpaṇa
Line 6: m astu ..

.. śake 1712 sādhāraṇasaṁvat
Line 7: pauṣaśuddhacaturthī taddinī ida pustakaṁ samāptaṁ .. .. .. .. ..
iti bhagavadgītā samāptaḥ
Record revised:10 February 2012