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 |
Locus: | ff. [0]r–89v (complete) |
Title: | Bhagavadgītā |
Cover rubric: |
f. 1r: atha bhagavadgītāprāraṁbhaḥ |
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 |
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 |
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. |
Hand 1: | Written in clear bold characters tilted rightward in slightly wavy lines. |
Additions: |
Mistakes are covered over with yellow. Marginal corrections. |
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. |
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. ” |
SubjectLC: | Mahābhārata – Bhagavadgītā. |
SubjectLC: | Manuscripts, Sanskrit – 18th century. |
SubjectLC: | Manuscripts – India – 18th century. |
SubjectSL: | Mahābhārata |
asya śrībhagavadgītāmālāmaṁtrasya ..
bhagavān ve
Line 3: davyāsa ṛṣiḥ ..
anustup chaṁdaḥ ..
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śrīkṛṣṇā
Line 5: rpaṇam astu ..
śubhaṁ bhavatu ..
śrīgajānanārpaṇa
Line 6: m astu ..
Record revised: | 10 February 2012 |
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