Manuscript Identifiers

Collection:UPenn Ms. Coll. 390
Item:906
Repository:Rare Book & Manuscript Library
Institution:University of Pennsylvania
Location:Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Catalog:Poleman
Item:960

Contents

Work 1

Locus:f. 1v-309v (incomplete)
Author:ānandagiri
Incipit: f. 1v:
†???†m api viśiṣṭārthāṃ kṛpāpīyūṣavarṣaṇīṃ |
heraṃba dehi pratyūhakṣvelvyūhanivāriṇīṃ ||1||
Explicit: f. 309v:
nirddeśa( | sad eva somyedam iti śruteḥ sadisapitasya nāmeti matvāha || oṃm iti || ca ||
Signatures:adhyāya number, beginning with the second on f. 16 is written in the upper right margin on the verso of each folio.
Language:Sanskrit in Devanagari script

Work 2

Locus:f. 1v-309v (incomplete)
Author:ṣaṃkarācārya
Incipit: f. 1v:
nārāyaṇaḥ parovyaktād aṃḍam avyaktasaṃbhavaṃ || ca ||
Explicit: f. 309v:
yat dānatapaḥprabhṛtīnāṃ sādguṇyakaraṇāyāyam upadeśa ucyate || oṃ tat sad iti || || oṃ tat sad ity eṣa nirdeṣaḥ || ca |
Signatures:adhyāya number, beginning with the second on f. 16 is written in the upper right margin on the verso of each folio.
Language:Sanskrit in Devanagari script

Work 3

Locus:f. 7v-309v (incomplete)
Author:vedavyāsa
Title:bhagavadgītā
Part:Chapter 1 f. 1v-15v:
Incipit: f. 7v:
dhṛtarāṣṭra uvāca || dharmakṣetre ...
Explicit: f. 309v:
yajñe tapasi dāne ca sthitiḥ sad iti cocyate |
karma caiva tadarthīyaṃ sad ity evābhidhīyate || 27
Note: last verse of chapter 17, and chapter 18 missing
Signatures:adhyāya number, beginning with the second on f. 16 is written in the upper right margin on the verso of each folio.
Language:Sanskrit in Devanagari script

Physical description

Form:folia
Material:paper
Extent:309
Dimension:21.5 x 36.3 cm
Foliation:Numbered continuously
continuous formula: 1-309 in the upper left margin on the verso of each folio by the original hand below the abbreviation: gī0 bhā0
Foliation:Each chapter is numbered in a separate enumeration in middle of the right margin on the verso of each folio by the original hand as follows:
chapterwise formula: I: 1-15; II: 1-60; III: 1-23; IV: 1-30; V: 1-20; VI: 1-22; VII: 1-11; VIII: 1-13; IX: 1-12; X: 1-10; XI: 1-17; XII: 1-8; XIII: 1-34; XIV: 1-10; XV: 1-9; XVI: 1-8; XVII: 1-7
Collation:single folia
Condition:Excellent.
Layout:Eight to Twenty lines written per side, per leaf.

text is divided between the mūla, bhāṣya, and ṭīkā, with the mūla occuring in the center beginning on folio seven.

Hands

Hand 1:Clear distinct akṣaras.
Additions:

Many marginal corrections, some in a different hand appear throughout.

fol 16rv, the beginning of the second adyāya's title page. An addition is added in a different hand to the title.

Decoration

Color:Mistakes covered over with yellow. Orange powder rubbed in over invocations, colophons, numbers, some words and some syllables. Some marginal corrections. Text continues into the right hand margin on some folios.

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

SubjectSL:Mahābhārata

Facsimile

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Transcription

parvan 6:
aDyAya 23:
Subcommentary:
f. 1v:
|| śrīmanmahāgaṇādhīpatye namaḥ || †???†m api viśiṣṭārthāṃ kṛpāpīyūṣavarṣaṇīṃ |
heraṃba dehi pratyūhakṣvelvyūhanivāriṇīṃ ||1|| Commentary:
f. 1v:
|| śrīgaṇapataye namaḥ | nārāyaṇaḥ paro vyaktād aṃḍam avyaktasaṃbhavaṃ || ca || mū:
f. 7v:
dhṛtarāṣṭra uvāca || dharmakṣetre ... aDyAya 40:
Subcommentary:
...
f. 309v:
nirddeśa( | sad eva somyedam iti śruteḥ sadisapitasya nāmeti matvāha || oṃm iti || ca || Commentary:
...
f. 309v:
yat dānatapaḥprabhṛtīnāṃ sādguṇyakaraṇāyāyam upadeśa ucyate || oṃ tat sad iti || || oṃ tat sad ity eṣa nirdeṣaḥ || ca | mū:
f. 309v:
yajñe tapasi dāne ca sthitiḥ sad iti cocyate |
karma caiva tadarthīyaṃ sad ity evābhidhīyate || 27 [missing: Bhṅ 18|1a-78d or ṃbh 6|40a|1-78d]
Record revised:???date mo.??? 2010