Manuscript Identifiers

Collection:UPenn Ms. Coll. 390
Item:2366
Repository:Rare Book & Manuscript Library
Institution:University of Pennsylvania
Location:Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Catalog:Poleman
Item:963

Contents

Work 1

Locus:ff. 2v-[243]v (complete)
Author:kṛṣṇa dvaipāyana vyāsa
Title:mahābhārata
Part:bhagavadgītā
Incipit: f. 2v:
dhṛtarāṣṭra uvāca || dharmakṣetre ...
(MBh. 06.023.001 )
Explicit: F. [242]r = adh 18 f. 34:
... nītir matir mamama ||78||
(Mbh. 06.040.078 )
Final rubric: f. [243]v = 35v:
iti śrīmahābhārate bhīṣmaparvaṇi bha(vadgītāsūpaniṣatsu brahmavidyāyāṃ yogaśāstre śrīkṛṣṇārjjunasaṃvāde mokṣasaṃnyāsayogo nāma aṣṭādaśo dhyāyaḥ ||18|| samātyeyaṃ gītā
Language:Sanskrit in Devanagari script

Work 2

Locus:2v-[242]r (complete)
Author:śrīdharasvāmin fl. 1350-1450
Incipit: f. 2v:
śrībhagavate vāsuvā
Note: [TK] with a '2' above it
de
Note: with a '1' above it
ya namaḥ || śeṣāśeṣamukhavyākhyācāturyaṃ
Explicit: F. [242]r = adh 18 f. 34:
satkarṇadhāraṃ vinā ||3||
Final rubric: F. [242]r = adh 18 f. 34:
iti subodhinyāṃ śrīdharasvāmiviracitāyāṃ aṣṭādaśa ||18|| ślokaikaṃ dhṛtaArāṣṭrasya navaduyodhanasya ca dvātriṃśat saṃjayasyoktā vedāṣṭāv arjunasya ca ||1|| jñānāvabodho vedābdhi paṃca keśavanirmitāḥ || gītāgraṃthapramāṇaṃ syād evaṃ saptaśatāni ca ||
Language:Sanskrit in Devanagari script

Physical description

Form:folia
Material:Country-made paper.
Extent:242
Dimension:13.8 x 26.8 cm
Foliation:242 leaves, foliated 1-32, {continuity} 34-68, [69-92, 93-103, 104-115, 116-127, 128-144, 145-150, {adh 13} 151-162, {adh 14} 163-174 BUT is numbered individually as 1-12, {adh 15} numbered individually 1-10 = 175-184, {adhy 16} numbered individually 1-9 = 185-193, {adh 17} numbered individually 1-15 = 194-208, {adh 18} numbered 1-35 = 209-243. Some foliation no.s added by another hand.
formula: I: 1-32; II: 34-68; III: [69-92]; IV: 93-103; V: 104-115; VI: 116-127; VII: 128-144; VIII: 145-150; IX: [adh 13] 151-162; X: [adh 14] 1-12; XI: [adh 15] 1-10; XII: [adhy 16] 1-9; XIII: [adh 17] 1-15, XIV: [adh 18] 1-35
Condition:Legible
Layout:Written in 7-11 lines per leaf bhagavadgItA with the commentary of zrIdharasvAmin's commentary subodhinI. Commentary is above and beneath the main text. Text sometimes continued into the margin.

Hands

Additions:

Yellow pigment used to erase text. Orange powder used to highlight certain verse numbers, colophons, and introduction of speakers--not used consistently. In addition to the main numbering, often done by another hand, there is also sometimes individual numbering of sections covering a specific chapter of the BG.

Occasional marginalia.

Chapter 14 -- red ink is used to mark word boundaries, mainly in the mUla, but also in the commentary a bit. Some words are then numbered, also in red, but the reason or system behind the numbering is not clear.

Decoration

Color:Yellow pigment used to erase text. Orange powder used to highlight certain verse numbers, colophons, and introduction of speakers--not used consistently.

History

Origin: 19--
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 -- 19th century.
SubjectLC:Manuscripts -- India -- 19th century.

Facsimile

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Transcription

parvan 6:
aDyAya 23:
mū:
f. 2v:
dhṛtarāṣṭra uvāca || dharmakṣetre ...
(MBh. 06.023.001)
śrīgaṇeśāya namaḥ || śrībhagavate vāsuvā
Note: [TK] with a '2' above it
de
Note: with a '1' above it
ya namaḥ || śeṣāśeṣamukhavyākhyācāturyaṃ chapter 40:
f. [242]r:
mū:
... nītir matir mamama ||78||
(Mbh. 06.040.078)
f. f. [243]v:
iti śrīmahābhārate bhīṣmaparvaṇi bha(vadgītāsūpaniṣatsu brahmavidyāyāṃ yogaśāstre śrīkṛṣṇārjjunasaṃvāde mokṣasaṃnyāsayogo nāma aṣṭādaśo dhyāyaḥ ||18|| samātyeyaṃ gītā
f. [242]r:
... satkarṇadhāraṃ vinā ||3|| iti subodhinyāṃ śrīdharasvāmiviracitāyāṃ aṣṭādaśa ||18|| ślokaikaṃ dhṛta[ā]rāṣṭrasya nava duyodhanasya ca dvātriṃśat saṃjayasyoktā vedāṣṭāv arjunasya ca ||1|| jñānāvabodho vedābdhi paṃca keśavanirmitāḥ || gītāgraṃthapramāṇaṃ syād evaṃ saptaśatāni ca ||
Record revised:???date mo.??? 2010