Manuscript Identifiers

Collection:UPenn Ms. Coll. 390
Item:555
Repository:Rare Book & Manuscript Library
Institution:University of Pennsylvania
Location:Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Catalog:Poleman
Item:961

Contents

Work 1

Locus:ff. 2r-92r (complete)
Author:kṛṣṇa dvaipāyana vyāsa
Title:mahābhārata
Part:bhagavadgītā
Incipit: f. 2r:
dhṛtarāṣṭra uvāca dharmakṣetre ...
(MBh. 06.023.001)
Explicit: f. 92r:
... nītir matir mama 78
(Mbh. 06.040.78)
Final rubric: f. 92r:
iti śrībhagavadgītāsūpaniṣatsu0 mokṣasaṃnyāsayogo nāmāṣṭādaśo dhyāyaḥ
Language:Sanskrit in Devanagari script

Work 2

Locus:ff. 2r-92r (complete)
Author:śrīdharasvāmin fl. 1350-1450
Incipit: f. 2r:
tatra tāvad dharmakṣetre ityādinā viṣīdan idam abravīd ity aṃtena
Explicit: 92r:
satkarṇadhāraṃ vinā 3
Final rubric: 92r:
iti śrīśrīdharasvāmiviracitāyāṃ bhagavadgītāsubodinyāṃ mokṣasaṃnyāsayogonāmāṣṭādaśo dhyāyah ||
Language:Sanskrit in Devanagari script

Physical description

Form:folia
Material:Country-made paper.
Extent:91
Dimension:12.7 x 30.4 cm
Foliation:91 leaves, foliated 2-92.
formula: 2-91
Condition:TK: Manuscript worn, but most of the text legible, especially 90-92 worn. F. 2 also quite worn. DN: Folios 2 recto and verso and 3 recto are in very poor shape and the lettering can hardly be read. Folio 92 is also in poor shape, but most of the writing is legible.
Layout:

11-14 lines {7 for f. 92v}

Text sometimes continued into the margin.

Decoration

Color:Yellow pigment used to erase text.

History

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. ”

Subject headings

SubjectLC:Mahābhārata -- Bhagavadgītā.
SubjectLC:Manuscripts, Sanskrit -- 18th century.
SubjectLC:Manuscripts -- India -- 18th century.

Facsimile

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Transcription

parvan 6:
aDyAya 23:
f. 2r:
mū:
dhṛtarāṣṭra uvāca dharmakṣetre ...
(MBh. 06.023.001) Commentary:
tatra tāvad dharmakṣetre ityādinā viṣīdan idam abravīd ity aṃtena chapter 40:
f. 92r:
mū:
... nītir matir mama 78
(Mbh. 06.040.78) iti śrībhagavadgītāsūpaniṣatsu0 mokṣasaṃnyāsayogo nāmāṣṭādaśo dhyāyaḥ Commentary:
satkarṇadhāraṃ vinā 3 iti śrīśrīdharasvāmiviracitāyāṃ bhagavadgītāsubodinyāṃ mokṣasaṃnyāsayogonāmāṣṭādaśo dhyāyah ||
Record revised:???date mo.??? 2010