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 |
Locus: | ff. 1r–59v (incomplete) |
Title: | Bhagavadgītā |
Colophon: | None |
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. This manuscript contains the preface and adhyāyas 1–7 ((BhG. 1.1–7.30) corresponding to MBh. 6.23.1–6.29.30). Most of the last line of the final verse of {a}DyAya 30 is missing, as are adhyāyas 8-18 ((BhG. 7.30cd–18.78) corresponding to MBh. 6.29.30cd–6.40.78). |
Language: | Sanskrit in Devanāgarī script |
Locus: | ff. 1r–6r (complete) |
Title: | Bhagavadgītā Preface |
Incipit: |
f. 1v: asya śrībhagavadgītāmālā mantrasya .. śrībhagavān vedavyā sa ṛṣir |
Explicit: |
f5v-f6r: yaṁ brahmā varuṇeṁdrarudrama rutaḥ stunvaṁti divyaiḥ stavair vedaiḥ sāṁgapadakramo paniṣadair gāyaṁti yaṁ sāmagāḥ .. dhyānāvasthita tadgatena manasā paśyaṁti yaṁ yogino yasyāṁtaṁ na viduḥ surāsuragaṇā devāya tasmai namaḥ ..9.. Note: BhG. Preface 4.2 |
Final rubric: |
f. 6r: iti
nyāsaḥ .. |
Colophon: | None |
Locus: | ff. 6r–59v (incomplete) |
Author: | Kṛṣṇa Dvaipāyana Vyāsa |
Title: | Bhagavadgītā |
Incipit: |
f6r-f6v: dhṛtarāṣṭra uvāca .. dharmakṣetre kurukṣetre samavetā yuyutsavaḥ .. māmakāḥ pāṁḍavāś caiva kim akurvata saṁjaya ..1.. Note: BhG. 1.1; MBh. 6.23.1 |
Explicit: |
f. 59v: sādhibhūtādhidaivaṁ māṁ sādhiyajṅaṁ ca ye viduḥ .. pra <yāṇakāle 'pi ca māṁ te vidur yuktacetasaḥ> Note: BhG. 7.30; MBh. 6.29.30 |
Final rubric: | none |
Colophon: | none |
Form: | Folia |
Material: | Paper. |
Extent: | 64 |
Dimension: | 10.1 x 16 cm |
Collation: | Pages are gathered and sewn with thick string in four quires consisting of ff. 1-11, ff. 12–29, ff. 30–41, and ff. 42-59. |
Formula: | 1-11, 12–29, 30–41, 42-59 |
Condition: | Excellent |
Binding: | Bound as a book with thick string in the left margin |
Layout: | Generally 6 lines per page, 3 lines per page in elaborately framed text on the first and second pages on f. 1v and f. 2r. |
Hand 1: | Written clearly with a reed with a broad nib that distinguishes thick and thin strokes and produces sharp angles. Same hand as UPenn Ms. Coll. 390 Item 2563, Item 2639, and Ms. Indic 5. |
Additions: |
Besides the rare addition of numbers by the original scribe, there is a single addition in another hand on f. 43v. |
Color: | Final rubrics and introduction of speakers are either in gold lettering outlined by red, or in red. Double daṇḍas are in red. Orange powder is rubbed in over numbers through folio 10. Mistakes are covered over with yellow, e.g. f. 54r. Additional colors are used in borders. |
Border: | An orange rectangular band trimmed with black lines within thin black, and orange rectangular lines frames the text on most pages. The text on f. 2v and f. 3r is surrounded by ornamental frame in gold, purple, and red, and the lines of text alternate red, gold, black; gold red, black on f. 2v; and black red, gold; black, gold, red on f. 3r. There are only three lines per page in red, gold, and black on f. 1v, and black, gold, and red on f. 2r. The text on these pages is surrounded by the same ornamental frame found on ff. 3–4, here bordered in black, and surrounded by an ornamental frame in tan, gold, and orange on a background of blue and gold with black, gold, and red lines bordering it. |
Illustration: | Five illustrations which must have been included in the manuscript on unnumbered folios preceding each of ff. [i]–[v] have been torn out. |
Origin: | The manuscript likely originates in Kashmir. The colophon of UPenn Ms. Coll. 390 Item 2563, written in the same hand, dates that manuscript to the year samvat 1913, equivalent to 1856-57 c.e. |
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. ” |
SubjectLC: | Mahābhārata – Bhagavadgītā. |
SubjectLC: | Manuscripts, Sanskrit – 19th century. |
SubjectLC: | Manuscripts – India – 19th century. |
SubjectSL: | Mahābhārata |
Whole image | Individual pages |
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f. 1r | f. 1r |
f. 1v,f. 2r | f. 1v f. 2r |
f. 2v,f. 3r | f. 2v f. 3r |
f. 3v,f. 4r | f. 3v f. 4r |
f. 4v,f. 5r | f. 4v f. 5r |
f. 5v,f. 6r | f. 5v f. 6r |
asya śrībhagavadgītāmālā
Line 3: mantrasya .. śrībhagavān vedavyā
f.2r
Line 1: sa ṛṣir
anuṣṭup chandaḥ ..
śrīkṛ
Line 2: ṣṇaḥ paramātmā devatā .
aśo
Line 3: cyān anvaśocas tvaṁ prajñāvādāṁ
f.2v
Line 1: ś ca bhāṣasa iti vījam ..
sarvadharmān parityajya mām e
Line 2: kaṁ śaraṇaṁ brajeti śaktiḥ ..
ahaṁ tvāṁ sarvapāpe
Line 3: bhyo mokṣayiṣyāmi mā śucaḥ iti kīlakam ..
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Record revised: | 3 February 2012 |
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