Manuscript Identifiers

Collection:UPenn Ms. Coll. 390
Item:2336
Repository:Rare Book & Manuscript Library
Institution:University of Pennsylvania
Location:Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Catalog:Poleman
Item:955

Contents

Work 1

Locus:f. 1v-5v (complete)
Author:kṛṣṇa dvaipāyana vyāsa
Title:mahābhārata
Part:bhagavadgītā-nyāsa
Incipit: f. 1v:
asya śrībhagavadgītāmālāmaṃtrasya śrī{bha}
Note: destroyed by hole
gavān vedavyāsa ṛṣiḥ || anuṣṭup chaṃdaḥ || śrīkṛṣṇaparamātmādevatā aśocyananvaśocas tvaṃ prajñāvādāṃś ca bhāṣaseti bījaṃ ||
Explicit: f. 6r:
...dhyānāvasthitatadgatena manasā paśyaṃti yaṃ yogino
yasyāṃttaṃ na
f. 6r:
viduḥ surāsuragaṇā devāya tasmai namaḥ ||
Final rubric: f. 6r:
iti nyāsa ||
Language:Sanskrit in Devanagari script

Work 2

Locus:f. 6r-162v (complete)
Author:kṛṣṇa dvaipāyana vyāsa
Title:mahābhārata
Part:bhagavadgītā
Incipit: f. 6r:
dhṛtarāṣṭra uvāca || dharmakṣetre ...
(MBh. 06.023.001, numbered 1)
Explicit: f. 162v:
... nītir matir mama ||78||
(Mbh. 06.040.078)
Final rubric: f. 162v:
iti śrībhagavadgītāsūpaniṣatsu vrahmavidyāyāṃ yogaśāstre śrīkṛṣṇārjunasaṃvāde mokṣasaṃnyāsayogo nāma aṣṭādaśo dhyāyaḥ ||18||
Colophon: f. 162v:
saṃvat 1841 || kātīka madhye līṣītvā brāhāhmaṇakṛṣṇadaṃ
Note: ? partly erased
taḥ paṭhanārtha kāsīdāsa vaiṣṇavavairagī ||
Language:Sanskrit in Devanagari script

Physical description

Form:folia
Material:paper
Extent:164
Dimension:9.3 x 14.6 cm
Foliation:163 leaves, foliated 1-154, then 155-156 but there were foliated 156-157 and a new number added, 157, 158-163 {some correction of numbering}.
formula: 1-163
Condition:Toward the end of the manuscript, the red ink is pretty much washed off and the black ink is wearing off.
Layout:Written in 5 lines per leaf.

Decoration

Color:Invocation colophons and part of final colophon, introductions of speakers, and double daṇḍas in red. Mistakes covered over with yellow. Marginal corrections by a hand other than the scribe's.
Illustration:Attractive design, in red, on f. 163v.:

History

Origin: saMvat 1841 [=1784; (not 1768, DN)]
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.

Facsimile

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Transcription

nyAsa :
f. 1v:
|| śrīgaṇeśāya namaḥ || oṃ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya || oṃ asya śrībhagavadgītāmālāmaṃtrasya śrī{bha}
Note: destroyed by hole
gavān vedavyāsa ṛṣiḥ || anuṣṭup chaṃdaḥ || śrīkṛṣṇaparamātmādevatā aśocyananvaśocas tvaṃ prajñāvādāṃś ca bhāṣaseti bījaṃ ||...
f. 5v:
dhyānāvasthitatadgatena manasā paśyaṃti yaṃ yogino
yasyāṃttaṃ na
f. 6r:
viduḥ surāsuragaṇā devāya tasmai namaḥ || iti nyāsa || mū:
f. 6r:
dhṛtarāṣṭra uvāca || dharmakṣetre ...
(MBh. 06.023.001, numbered 1)
f. 162v:
... nītir matir mama ||78|| hariḥ
(Mbh. 06.040.078) iti śrībhagavadgītāsūpaniṣatsu vrahmavidyāyāṃ yogaśāstre śrīkṛṣṇārjunasaṃvāde mokṣasaṃnyāsayogo nāma aṣṭādaśo dhyāyaḥ ||18|| yādṛṣṭaṃ pustakaṃ dṛṣṭvā tādṛśaṃ laṣītaṃ mayā
yadi sudhaṃmasudhaṃ vā mama doṣo na deyate 1 || saṃvat 1841 || kātīka madhye līṣītvā brāhāhmaṇakṛṣṇadaṃ
Note: ? partly erased
taḥ paṭhanārtha kāsīdāsa vaiṣṇavavairagī || śrī
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