Collection: | UPenn Ms. Coll. 390 |
Item: | 2233 |
Repository: | Rare Book & Manuscript Library |
Institution: | University of Pennsylvania |
Location: | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America |
Catalog: | Poleman |
Item: | 949 |
Locus: | ff. 1v-5r (complete) |
Author: | kṛṣṇa dvaipāyana vyāsa |
Title: | mahābhārata |
Part: | bhagavadgītā-nyāsa |
Incipit: |
f. 1v: asya śrībhagavadgītāmālāmaṃtrasya bhagavān vedavyāsa ṛṣiḥ anuṣṭup chaṃdāṃsi śrīkṛṣṇaḥ paramātmā devatā aśocyānanvaśocas tvaṃ prajñāvādāṃś ca bhāṣasa iti bījaṃ |
Explicit: |
f. 5r: mūkaṃ karoti vācālaṃ pa{ṃ}guṃ [llaṃ](ghayate girīn yat kṛpā tam ahaṃ vaṃde paramānaṃdamādhavam 9 hariḥ om |
Language: | Sanskrit in Devanagari script |
Locus: | ff. 5v-119v (incomplete) |
Author: | kṛṣṇa dvaipāyana vyāsa |
Title: | mahābhārata |
Part: | bhagavadgītā |
Incipit: |
f. 5v: dhṛtarāṣṭra uvāca dharmakṣetre ... (MBh. 06.023.001, numbered 1) |
Explicit: |
f. 119v: ... bhūtir dhruvā nīti Note: rest of line destroyed, f. 119v picks up: 78 (d (Mbh. 06.040.078) |
Final rubric: |
f. 119v: iti śrīmadbhagavadgītāsūpa Note: [TK] 4 or so aks. missing vidyāyāṃ yogaśāstre śrīkṛṣṇārjunasaṃ Note: 4 or so aks. missing paniṣadarthapratipādakamokṣasaṃnyāsayo Note: 3 or so missing māṣṭādaśo dhyāyaḥ |
Language: | Sanskrit in Devanagari script |
Form: | folia |
Material: | Browned European paper, chain lines. |
Watermark: | watermark looks like Lady Britannia in a seal with her shield (f. 37, for example). Watermark on f. 22 and f. 104 reads: W & J HARRIS TURKEY MILL 1839 F. 34 and f. 35 and f. 36 and f. 39 and f. 42 and f. 51 and f. 55 and f. 60 and f. 63 and f. 65 and f. 75 and f. 80 and f. 81 and f. 95 and f. 96 has: J & J TOWN TURKEY MILL 1840 F. 58 has: W x SON F. 99 has a name difficult to read, maybe R x x x x AR |
Extent: | 119 |
Dimension: | 10.3 x 19.4 cm |
Foliation: | 119 leaves, foliated 1-119.
formula: 1-119 |
Condition: | F. 119 has a portion ripped off. |
Layout: | Written in 6-8 lines per leaf. Four lines on f. 119v. |
Color: | Mistakes covered over with gray or yellow. Orange powder rubbed in over invocations, introduction of speakers, and numbers. A few black blotches. |
Origin: | 17-- |
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 -- 18th century. |
SubjectLC: | Manuscripts -- India -- 18th century. |
Record revised: | ???date mo.??? 2010 |
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