Collection: | UPenn Ms. Coll. 390 |
Item: | 2199 |
Repository: | Rare Book & Manuscript Library |
Institution: | University of Pennsylvania |
Location: | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America |
Catalog: | Poleman |
Item: | 953 |
Locus: | ff. 1r–104v (complete) |
Title: | Bhagavadgītā |
Cover rubric: |
f. 1r: .. iti śrībhagavadgī<tā>prāraṁbhaḥ .. |
Final rubric: |
f. [104]v: .. iti śrībhagavadgītā[prāraṁbhaḥ]() .. |
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. The preface in this manuscript ends with one verse that corresponds to a verse introducing the Bhagavadgītā in the critical apparatus. |
Language: | Sanskrit in Devanāgarī script |
Locus: | ff. 1v–6r (complete) |
Title: | Bhagavadgītā Preface |
Incipit: |
f. 1v: asya śrībhaga vadgītāmālāmaṁtrasya bhagavān vedavyāsa ṛṣiḥ |
Explicit: |
f5v-f6r: yaṁ brahmā varuṇeṁdrarudramaruta<ḥ> stunvaṁti !dī!<di> vyaiḥ stavair vedaiḥ sāṁgapadakramopaniṣa dai<r> gāyaṁti yaṁ sāmagāḥ .. dhyānāvasthi tatadgatena manasā paśyaṁti yaṁ yo gino ya!ṁ!<>syāṁtaṁ na viduḥ surāsuraga ṇā devāya tasmai namaḥ ..9.. Note: BhG. Preface 4.2 kṛ ṣṇaṁ kamalapatrākhyaṁ puṇyaḥ śravaṇakīrtanāt .. vāsude vaṁ jagadyoniṁ nomi<naumi> nārāya ṇo hariṁ ..10.. Note: MBh. 6.23.1*85, lines 1–2 |
Final rubric: |
f. 6r: iti kavacaṁ samāptaṁ .. |
Colophon: | None |
Locus: | ff. 1v–104r (complete) |
Author: | Kṛṣṇa Dvaipāyana Vyāsa |
Title: | Bhagavadgītā |
Incipit: |
f. 6v: dhṛta rāṣṭra uvāca .. dharmakṣetre kurukṣetre sa mavetā yuyutsavaḥ .. māmakāḥ pāṇḍavāś cai va kim akurvata saṁjaya ..1.. Note: BhG. 1.1; MBh. 6.23.1 |
Explicit: |
f. 103v: yatra yogeśvaraḥ kṛṣṇo yatra pārtho dhanurdharaḥ .. tatra śrīr vija yo bhūti<r> dhruvā nīti<r> matir mama ..78.. Note: BhG. 18.78; MBh. 6.40.78 |
Final rubric: |
f. [104]r: iti śrīmadbhagavadgītāsūpaniṣatsu brahmavidyāyāṁ yogaśāstre śrīkṛṣṇā rjunasaṁvāde mokṣayogo nāmāṣṭāda śo dhyāyaḥ ..18.. |
Colophon: |
f. [104]r: sādhāraṇa!t!<>saṁva tsare [jyeṣṭha] aṣāśuddhatrodaśī 13 maṁdavāsare taddinedaṁ pu[kaṁsta]() nārā yaṇedaṁ pustaka .. |
Form: | Folia |
Material: | European paper with chain lines and a watermark. |
Watermark: | A big shield with a crown on top; only the top appears on some leaves and only the bottom on others. |
Extent: | 104 |
Dimension: | 10.6 x 15.1 cm |
Collation: | Mostly paired folios with a few single folios at the beginning. |
Formula: | 1, 2, 3, 4, 5–6, 7–8, 9–10, 11–12, 13–14, 15–16, 17–18, 19–20, 21–22, 23–24, 25–26, 27–28, 29–30, ... 103–[104]. |
Condition: | Very good. Occasional ink-blotches in lettering and in margins. Water stains. |
Binding: | Unbound. |
Layout: | Written in 7–9 lines per page. |
Additions: |
There are some marginal additions in brown or black (f. 80r). Mistakes covered over with yellow throughout. |
Color: | Orange powder is rubbed over invocations, final rubrics, introduction of speakers, and numbers on f. 1v: –f. 16v, over the final rubric on f. 90r, f. 93v, and over the final colophon on f. [104]r. Elsewhere, f. 17r: –f. 102v: final rubrics and some introductions of speakers are in brown and double daṇḍas are in brown or pink. Some marginal additions are in brown. Mistakes are covered over with yellow throughout. |
Border: | Two sets of vertical double brown lines rule the left and right margins of the text on each page. Pink horizontal lines complete a rectangular frame on f. 1r. |
Origin: | The colophon states that the manuscript was completed during the day on the 13th tithi of the bright fortnight in the month of āṣāḍha in the year called sādhāraṇa in the saṁvat era. Every 44th year in the 60-year cycle of years in Indian calendars is called sādhāraṇa, including saṁvat 1787, 1847, 1907, and 1967 corresponding to 1730-31, 1790-91, 1850-51, 1910-11 A.D. The date of completion of the manuscript given corresponds to either Wednesday, 28 June 1730 A.D., Saturday, 24 July 1790 A.D., Monday, 22 July 1850 A.D., or Wednesday, 20 July 1910 A.D.. The acquisition of the manuscript by the University of Pennsylvania prior to 1930 prohibits any later date. David Nelson placed the date in the 18th century (17–) indicating one of the first two options. |
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 |
Whole image | Individual pages |
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f. 1v,f. 2r | f. 1v f. 2r |
f. 2v,f. 3r | f. 2v f. 3r |
f. 3v,f. 4r | f. 3v f. 4r |
f. 4v,f. 5r | f. 4v f. 5r |
f. 5v,f. 6r | f. 5v f. 6r |
asya śrībhaga
Line 2: vadgītāmālāmaṁtrasya bhagavān vedavyāsa
Line 3: ṛṣiḥ
anuṣṭup chaṁdaḥ
śrī kṛṣṇaparamā
Line 4: tmā devatā .
aśocān anvaśocas tvaṁ pra
Line 5: jñāvādāṁś ca bhāṣaseti bījaṁ ..
sarvadharmā
Line 6: n parityajya mām ekaṁ śaraṇaṁ vrajeti śa
Line 7: ktiḥ ..
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Record revised: | 9 February 2012 |
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