Collection: | UPenn Ms. Coll. 390 |
Item: | 2369 |
Repository: | Rare Book & Manuscript Library |
Institution: | University of Pennsylvania |
Location: | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America |
Catalog: | Poleman |
Item: | 965 |
Locus: | ff. 2[a]r–112v |
Author: | Kṛṣṇa Dvaipāyana Vyāsa |
Title: | Bhagavadgītā |
Incipit: |
f. 2[a]r
dhṛtarāṣṭra uvāca .. dharmakṣetre kurukṣetre samavetā yuyutsavaḥ māmakāḥ pāṁḍavāś caiva kim akurvata saṁjaya 1 (Anuṣṭubh) ( BhG. 1.1= MBh. 6.23.1 ) |
Explicit: |
f. 112v
yatra yogeśvaraḥ kṛṣṇo yatra pārtho dhanurdharaḥ . tatra śrīr vijayo bhūtir dhruvā nītir mmatir mmama 78 ( BhG. 18.78= MBh. 6.40.78 ) (Anuṣṭubh) |
Final rubric: |
f. 112v
iti śrībhagavadgītāsūpaniṣatsu brahmavidyāyāṁ yogaśāstre śrīkṛṣṇārjunasaṁvāde mokṣasaṁnyāsayogo nāma aṣṭādaśo dhyāyaḥ .. .. |
Colophon: | none |
Language: | Sanskrit in Devanāgarī script |
Locus: | ff. 1r–113v |
Author: | Śrīdharasvāmin |
Cover rubric: |
f. 1r
bhagavadgītā saṭīkā |
Incipit: |
f. 1v
śeṣāśeṣamukha(vyā)khyācāturyyaṁ tv ekavakrataḥ [deṣā](dadhā)na madbhutaṁ vaṁde paramānaṁdamādhavaṁ 1 (Anuṣṭubh) śrīmādhavaṁ praṇamyo mādhavaṁ viśveśam ādarāt tadbhaktiyaṁtritaḥ kurvve gītāvyākhyāṁ suvodhinīṁ 2 (Anuṣṭubh) |
Explicit: |
f. 113r
svapragalbhya valād viloḍya bhagavadgītāṁ tadaṁtargataṁ tatvaṁ prepsur upaiti kiṁ gurukṛpā pīyūṣadṛṣṭiṁ vinā .. aṁvusvāṁ jalinā nirasya jaladher āditsuraṁtarmmaṇī .. nāvarttepu nakiṁ nimajjati janaḥ satkarṇadhāraṁ vinā (Śārdūlavikrīḍita) |
Final rubric: |
f. 113r
iti śrībhagavadgītāṭīkāyāṁ śrīśrīdharasvāmiviracitāyāṁ mokṣasanyāsayogo nāmāṣṭādaśo dhyāyaḥ ..6 < flower > |
Colophon: |
f. 113v
graṁthasaṁkhyā 4000 |
Note: | After an eight-line introduction of f. 1v, Śrīdhara's comment on the first verse of the Bhagavadgītā begins on the first line of f. 2[a]r. |
Language: | Sanskrit in Devanāgarī script |
Form: | Folia |
Material: | Paper |
Extent: | 115 folia |
Dimension: | 14 x 33.7 cm (h x w) |
Foliation: | p Foliated in the upper left and lower right margins on the verso of each folio but on f. 113r. There is a cover page (not imaged). Two folios are numbered 2, and two are numbered 3. p Textual continuity is lacking bewtween f. 2[a]v and f. 2[b]r. Sections of the commentary and mūla of verses 3–4 are repeated. It seems that f. 2[a]r may be continuous with f. 2[b]r and the text of f. 2[a]r ends at verse two commentary whereas the 2[b]r picks up on verse 3 mūla, followed by the commentary. p Folio 3[a]r may follow from 2[b]v (at least it does numerically); however, the commentary does not follow the Gaudiya Grantha Mandira edition. |
Formula: | 1–2[a], 2[b], 3[a], 3[b]–113 |
Signatures: | gī0 ṭī0 appears above the folio number in the upper left margin (gītā on f. 8v–f. 10v), and rāma appears above the folio number in the lower right margin on the verso of most folios. |
Collation: | Single folia |
Condition: | Good with browned and cracked edges and water stains. The last folio, f. 113 has tattered edges. |
Binding: | Bound between broken boards with a carved boarder: 38.2 cm x 12–14.5 cm. |
Seal: | A circular stamp at the right of f. 93v reads Library University Pennsylvania. |
Accompanying material: | A note taped to [[facs=f0v, locus=the inside of the front wooden cover]] reads as follows: The Gribbel-Penniman Collection of Sanskrit Manuscripts |
Layout: | Written in 7–13 lines per page in an hourglass arrangement with the base text indented between commentary above and below it. On f. 2[a]v–3[a]v, however, the base text is followed by the commentary in line, with coordinated numbering of verse and comment. |
Summary: | The manuscript breaks down into 5 parts: part 1, folios 1–10; part 2, folios 11–39; part 3, folios 40–92; part 4, folio 93; part 5, folios 94–113. |
Hand 1: | Part 1: Written in clear regular rightward tilted characters in straight lines. Mistakes covered over with yellow, crossed through or blocked out. Orange powder rubbed in faintly over invocation. Marginal corrections by different hands. |
Hand 2: | Part 2: Mistakes covered over with yellow or indicated by short vertical strokes above the syllables in question. Orange powder rubbed in over final rubrics, the introduction of speakers and some phrases. There are a few marginal corrections. Some of the writing goes into the right margin. |
Hand 3: | Part 3: Double daṇḍas are written in red. Mistakes are covered over with yellow or written over. There are some interlinear corrections. |
Hand 4: | Part 4: Orange powder is rubbed over some words. |
Hand 5: | Part 5: Mistakes are covered over with yellow. Orange powder is rubbed over numbers and final rubrics on f. 105r–f. 113r. |
Additions: |
There are marginal and interlinear corrections. |
Color: | Yellow pigment is used to cover errors. Orange powder is rubbed over invocations, final rubrics, the introduction of speakers, some other phrases and numbers. |
Border: | Two sets of vertical double black lines rule the left and right margins of the text on most pages. |
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. |
SubjectLC: | Mahābhārata. |
SubjectLC: | Manuscripts, Sanskrit – 18th century. |
SubjectLC: | Manuscripts – India – 18th century. |
SubjectSL: | Mahābhārata |