Manuscript Identifiers

Collection:UPenn Ms. Coll. 390
Item:2340
Repository:Rare Book & Manuscript Library
Institution:University of Pennsylvania
Location:Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Catalog:Poleman
Item:957

Contents

Work 1

Locus:ff. 1r–102v (complete)
Title:Bhagavadgītā
Cover rubric: f. 1r:
atha bhagavadgītāprāraṁbhaḥ
Final rubric: f. 102v:
iti bhagavadgītā samāptaḥ
Colophon:None
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

   Work 1.1

   Locus:ff. 1v–5r (complete)
   Title:Bhagavadgītā Preface
   Incipit: f. 1v:
asya śrībhagavadgītā mālāmaṁ
trasya .. śrībhagavānvedavyāsa ṛṣiḥ ..
   Explicit: f. 5r:

yaṁ brahmā varuṇeṁdrarudramaruta<ḥ>
stunvaṁti divyaiḥ stavair vedaiḥ sāṁgapadakramopaniṣa
dair gāyaṁti yaṁ sāmagāḥ ..
dhyānāvasthitatadgatena ma
nasā paśyaṁti yaṁ yogino yasyāṁtaṁ na viduḥ surāsu
ragaṇā devāya tasmai namaḥ ..12..
Note:
BhG. Preface 4.2
   Colophon:None

   Work 1.2

   Locus:ff. 5r-102r (complete)
   Author:Kṛṣṇa Dvaipāyana Vyāsa
   Title:Bhagavadgītā
   Incipit: f. 5r:
dhṛtarāṣṭra uvāca ..
dharmakṣetre kurukṣetre samavetā yuyutsavaḥ ..
māmakāḥ
pāṁḍavāś caiva kim akurvata saṁjaya ..1..
Note:
BhG. 1.1; MBh. 6.23.1
   Explicit: f. 101v:

yatra yogeśvaraḥ
kṛṣṇo yatra pārtho dhanurdharaḥ ..
tatra śrīr vijayo bhūtir dhru
vā nītir matir mama ..78..
Note:
BhG. 18.78; MBh. 6.40.78
   Final rubric: f101v-f102r:
iti śrīmadbhaga
vadgītāsūpaniṣatsu brahmavidyāyāṁ yogaśāstre śrī
kṛṣṇārjunasaṁvāde mokṣasaṁnyāsayogonāmāṣṭā
daśo dhyāyaḥ ..18..
   Colophon: f. 102r:
śake 1765
śobhakṛn nāmasaṁvatsare śrāvaṇaśuklapūrṇimāyāṁ ti
thau guruvāsare idaṁ pustakaṁ samāptim agamat ..

Physical description

Form:Folia
Material:Thick European paper with watermarks.
Watermark:A crest with an animal inside appears to leave an indent and can be seen, though faint, without the help of the light panel. The date of (mentioned: 1829) can be read on ff. 72 and 73, and f. 80.
Extent:102
Dimension:10 x 15.3 cm
Collation: Single folios.
Condition:Excellent though some folios are brittle.
Binding: Unbound.
Layout:Written in 1–7 lines per page.

Hands

Hand 1:Written in clear, bold characters sometimes tilted slightly rightward in straight lines.
Additions:

Mistakes are covered over with yellow. There are only a few marginal corrections in another hand on f. 6v, f. 87v, and f. 91v.

Decoration

Color:Double daṇḍas are written in red. Mistakes are covered over with yellow.
Border:Vertical double red lines rule the left and right margins of the text on each page.

History

Origin:The colophon states that the manuscript was completed on Thursday, on the full moon tithi in the month of śrāvaṇa in the year 1765, called śobhakṛt, of the śaka era, which corresponds to Thursday, 10 August 1843 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. ”

Subject headings

SubjectLC:Mahābhārata – Bhagavadgītā.
SubjectLC:Manuscripts, Sanskrit – 19th century.
SubjectLC:Manuscripts – India – 19th century.
SubjectSL:Mahābhārata

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Transcription (Manuscript Layout)

f.1r
Line 1: atha bhagavadgītāprāraṁbhaḥ work 1:
f.1v
Line 1: śrīgaṇeśāya namaḥ ..

asya śrībhagavadgītā mālāmaṁ
Line 2: trasya .. śrībhagavānvedavyāsa ṛṣiḥ .. [

[
f.5r
Line 1: yaṁ brahmā varuṇeṁdrarudramaruta<ḥ>
Line 2: stunvaṁti divyaiḥ stavair vedaiḥ sāṁgapadakramopaniṣa
Line 3: dair gāyaṁti yaṁ sāmagāḥ .. dhyānāvasthitatadgatena ma
Line 4: nasā paśyaṁti yaṁ yogino yasyāṁtaṁ na viduḥ surāsu
Line 5: ragaṇā devāya tasmai namaḥ ..12.. work 2:
dhṛtarāṣṭra uvāca ..
Line 6: dharmakṣetre kurukṣetre samavetā yuyutsavaḥ .. māmakāḥ
Line 7: pāṁḍavāś caiva kim akurvata saṁjaya ..1.. [
f.101v
Line 3: [ yatra yogeśvaraḥ
Line 4: kṛṣṇo yatra pārtho dhanurdharaḥ .. tatra śrīr vijayo bhūtir dhru
Line 5: vā nītir matir mama ..78..
õ tat sad iti śrīmadbhaga
Line 6: vadgītāsūpaniṣatsu brahmavidyāyāṁ yogaśāstre śrī
Line 7: kṛṣṇārjunasaṁvāde mokṣasaṁnyāsayogonāmāṣṭā
f.102r
Line 1: daśo dhyāyaḥ ..18.. śrīkṛṣṇārpaṇam astu śake 1765
Line 2: śobhakṛn nāmasaṁvatsare śrāvaṇaśuklapūrṇimāyāṁ ti
Line 3: thau guruvāsare idaṁ pustakaṁ samāptim agamat .. śubhaṁ
Line 4: bhavatu .. .. ca .. .. ca .. .. ca .. .. ca .. ca .. ..

f.102v
Line 1:
iti bhagavadgītā samāptaḥ
Record revised:11 February 2012