Collection: | UPenn Ms. Coll. 390 |
Item: | 2639 |
Repository: | Rare Book & Manuscript Library |
Institution: | University of Pennsylvania |
Location: | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America |
Catalog: | Poleman |
Item: | 988 |
Locus: | ff. I: [i]r–[13]v (complete) |
Author: | Kṛṣṇa Dvaipāyana Vyāsa |
Title: | Saptaṣlokīgītā with Ṭīkā |
Colophon: | None |
Note: |
The Saptaślokīgītā consists of a selection of seven verses from the Bhagavadgītā. Some versions add an introductory verse that gives the pratīkas of the seven verses, and a final phalaśruti verse. The seven core verses from the Bhagavadgītā are included in the text of the critical edition of the Mahābhārata at BhG. 8.9, MBh. 6.30.09; BhG. 8.13, MBh. 6.30.13; BhG. 11.36, MBh. 6.33.36; BhG. 13.13, MBh. 6.35.13; BhG. 15.1, MBh. 6.37.1; BhG. 15.15, MBh. 6.37.15; BhG. 18.65, MBh. 6.40.65. The introductory and final verses are not included in the critical text or the critical apparatus. The present manuscript reorders the verses, and while it includes the final phalaśruti verse it does not include the introductory verse. |
Locus: | ff. I: [i]r–[13]v (complete) |
Author: | Kṛṣṇa Dvaipāyana Vyāsa |
Title: | Saptaṣlokīgītā |
Incipit: |
fI:1v-fI:3r: śrībhagavān uvāca .. õm ity ekākṣaraṁ brahma .. vyāharan mām anusmaran .. yaḥ prayāti tyajan dehaṁ sa yāti para māṁ gatim ..1.. Note: BhG. 8.13; MBh. 6.30.13 sarvataḥ pāṇipādaṁ tat sarvato kṣisiromukham .. sarvataḥ śrutimal loke sarvam āvṛtya tiṣṭha ti ..2.. Note: BhG. 13.13; MBh. 6.35.13 |
Explicit: |
fI:10v-fI:12r: manmanā bhava madbhakto madyājī māṁ nama s!a!kuru .. mām evaiṣyasi satyaṁ te pratijā ne priyo 'si me Note: BhG. 18.65; MBh. 6.40.65 |
Colophon: | none |
Language: | Sanskrit in Devanāgarī script |
Locus: | ff. I: [i]r–[13]v (complete) |
Author: | unknoṭn |
Title: | Saptaṣlokīgītāṭīkā |
Incipit: |
f. I:2r:
ṭīkā ..
he śrjuna
|
Explicit: |
f. I:12r:
ṭīkā ..
|
Final rubric: |
f. I:13r: iti śrī saptasalo
kīgītāṭīkāvāle samāptam .. |
Colophon: | None |
Language: | Hindī in Devanāgarī script |
Locus: | ff. II: [i]r–11v (complete) |
Author: | Kṛṣṇa Dvaipāyana Vyāsa |
Title: | Bhagavadgītā |
Part: | Daśama Adhyāya |
Incipit: |
f. II:1r: śrībhagavān uvāca .. bhūya eva mahābā ho śṛṇu me paramaṁ vacaḥ .. yat te <'>haṁ prīya māṇāya vakṣyāmi hitakāmyayā ..1.. Note: BhG. 10.1; MBh. 6.32.1 |
Explicit: |
fII:11r-fII:11v: atha vā bahunaitena kiṁ jñātena tavārjuna viṣṭabhyāham idaṁ kṛ tsnam ekāṁśena sthito jagat ..42.. Note: BhG. 10.42; MBh. 6.32.42 |
Final rubric: |
f. II:11v: iti
śrībhagavadgītāsūpaniṣatsu brahmavidhāyaṁ yogaśāstre śrīkṛṣṇārjunasaṁvāde a rjunasaṁvāde vibhūtiyogo nāma daśamo dhyāyaḥ |
Colophon: | None |
Language: | Sanskrit in Devanāgarī script |
Locus: | ff. III: [i]r–15v (complete) |
Author: | Śaṅkarācārya |
Title: | Daśāvatārastotra |
Incipit: |
fIII:1r-fIII:1v:
õ
dasa au
|
Explicit: |
fIII:15r-fIII:15v:
aru sau kaṁnyādana kī
|
Final rubric: |
f. III:15v: iti śrī dasa auvatārastotraṁ sa
māptam .. |
Colophon: | None |
Note: | The manuscript contains a very brief narration of the ten avatāras of Viṣṇu accompanied by an illustration of each. |
Language: | Hindī in Devanāgarī script |
Locus: | ff. IV: 1r–[6]v (complete) |
Title: | Kamalanetra |
Incipit: |
f. IV:1r:
õ śrīkamalanetraka
|
Explicit: |
f. IV:1r:
śrīkṛṣṇa aṣṭapada paṭata nisadina viṣṇuloka sagachate ..
śrīgu
|
Final rubric: |
f. IV:1r: iti śrī kamalanetraṁ .. |
Colophon: | None |
Language: | Hindī in Devanāgarī script |
Locus: | ff. V:1r–6v (complete) |
Title: | Nāgalīlā |
Incipit: |
f. V:1r:
õ
giṁda ke
|
Explicit: |
f. V:6v:
ye tanā garbhana ke jiye padminī
|
Final rubric: |
f. V:6v: iti śrī nāgalīlā samāptam .. |
Colophon: | None |
Language: | Hindī in Devanāgarī script |
Locus: | ff. VI:1r–3v (complete) |
Title: | Saṅkaṭastotra |
Incipit: |
f. VI:1r:
õ namo kāsinī ..
|
Explicit: |
fVI:3r-fVI:3v:
idaṁ paṁca
|
Final rubric: |
f. VI:3v: iti śrī śaṁkarācā
ryyaviravitaṁ samkaṭāstotraṁ samāptam .. |
Colophon: | None |
Language: | Hindī in Devanāgarī script |
Locus: | ff. VII: 1r–3v (incomplete) |
Title: | Śivastotra |
Incipit: |
f. VII:1r:
õ jai śiva oṁkārā ..
|
Explicit: |
f. VII:3v:
lakśṁī varagāya
kāśī mai
|
Colophon: | None |
Note: | The text ends abruptly in mid-verse on f. VII:3v. |
Language: | Hindī in Devanāgarī script |
Form: | Folia |
Material: | Paper. |
Extent: | 79 |
Dimension: | 9.5 x 16.8 cm |
Collation: | Single folios. |
Condition: | Very good–excellent. The edges of folios are browned and the front folio is fragile. |
Binding: | Bound in the left margin with string sewn through holes in the individual leaves. |
Layout: | Written in 5 lines per page, but 3 on f. 1r, and 4 on f. 2r. |
Hand 1: | Written clearly with a reed with a broad nib that distinguishes thick and thin strokes and produces sharp angles. Same hand as UPenn Ms. Coll. 390 Item 773, Item 2563, and Ms. Indic 5. |
Additions: |
None. |
Color: | double daṇḍas, speakers, and final rubrics appear in red. Additional colors are used in borders and illustrations. The latter use violet, a light and dark blue, yellow, green, orange, and red paint. |
Border: | An orange rectangular band trimmed with black lines within a thin black rectangular line surrounded by another orange rectangle frames the text on most pages. On f. 2r An outer similarly trimmed orange band frames an inner frame. The first work begins on f. 1v with text in black, silver, and black lines in a frame with flowers painted in it in purple, red, and green surrounded by an elaborate silver, blue, and red frame itself framed in silver band. |
Illustration: |
The ms. contains thirteen full-color illustrations. On the cover (f. [i]v) appear two images, one of a four-armed {g}aReSa and the other of a four-armed {S}iva with his third eye. The images are painted in red, orange, purple, and gold. On f. I:[ii]v: On f. II: 1v: The remaining ten illustrations each shows Viṣṇu in one of his avatāras: Matsya on f. III:[i]v, Kurma on f. III:[iii]v, Varāha on f. III:[v]v, Narasiṁha on f. III:[vii]v, Vāmana on f. III:[ix]v, Paraśurāma on f. III:[xi]v, Rāma seated with Sītā on a couch flanked by Hanumat, Lakṣmaṇa, Bharata, and Śatrughna on f. III:[xii]v, Kṛṣṇa being carried accross the river by Vasudeva on f. III:[xiv]v, Buddha on f. III:[xvi]v, and Kalkin with drawn sword leading his winged white horse followed by Garuḍa on f. III:[xiii]v. |
Origin: | The manuscript likely originates in Kashmir.
The colophon of UPenn Ms. Coll. 390 Item 2563, written in the same hand, dates that manuscript to the year samvat 1913, equivalent to 1856-57 c.e. |
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 – 19th century. |
SubjectLC: | Manuscripts – India – 19th century. |
SubjectSL: | Mahābhārata |
Whole image | Individual pages |
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f. V:6v,f. VI:1r | f. V:6v f. VI:1r |
f. VI:1v,f. VI:2r | f. VI:1v f. VI:2r |
f. VI:2v,f. VI:3r | f. VI:2v f. VI:3r |
f. VI:3v,f. VII:1r | f. VI:3v f. VII:1r |
Whole image | Individual pages |
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f. VI:3v,f. VII:1r | f. VI:3v f. VII:1r |
f. VII:1v,f. VII:2r | f. VII:1v f. VII:2r |
f. VII:2v,f. VII:3r | f. VII:2v f. VII:3r |
f. VII:3v | f. VII:3v |
salo
Line 2: ka ..
saloka ..
sarvataḥ pāṇipādaṁsaloka ..
sthāne hṛṣīkeśa
sa
Line 2: loka ..
saloka ..
ūrdhvamūlam adhaḥśākham a
sa
Line 5: loka ..
saloka ..
saloka ..
yo māṁ gītāsamuhena stotu
ṭīkā ..
he śrjuna
Line 3: õkāra akṣara kā maṁtra merā hai
Line 4: so õkāra brahma hai ..
ise brahmarūpa
f.I:2v
Line 1: oṁkāra kā japa merā hai ..
õkāra hī ke
Line 2: vyavahāra lāge hai ..
jo isa prakāra
Line 3: kā japa karate hai .. so to deha kā tyā
Line 4: ga kara paramagati ko prāp!a!ta hote
Line 5: hai ..1..
ṭīkā ..
he arjuna kṣatriya rūpa
Line 4: bhagavāna kā hai ..
so kaisā hai ..
[
ṭīkā ..
Line 3:
he hṛṣīkeśa jī .. samasta jagat utuma viṣedeṣatā hoṁ ..
[
ṭīkā ..
he arjuna
f.I:6r
Line 1: parama puruṣa jo hai so suṇa ..
[
ṭīkā ..
Line 4:
śrīkṛsna bhagavānjī .. arjuna ko kaha
Line 5: te hai ..
he arjuna ..
iha saṁsāra vṛkṣarūpa hai
[
ṭīkā ..
.. he arjuna .. hoṁ hī sa
Line 4: bhanoṁ ke hṛdayakamalavikheṁ vaiṭā hoṁ ..
Line 5:
hoṁ hī sabhanoṁ ko jñana detā hoṁ ..
[
ṭīkā ..
he arjuna tūṁ
f.I:11r
Line 1: apane mana ko mere virkheṁ rākha ..
[
ṭīkā ..
Line 3:
he arjuna jisa ko mana vikhe gītā jī ke pāḍhakarane kī ichā hovai .. so i
Line 4: ha saptasalokīgītā kā pāḍha kare
f.I:12v
Line 1: tisa ko gītā jī ke samana phala prā
Line 2: pta hovegā ..
he arjuna tūṁ nihacā kara ..
Line 3: ke jānana ..
tūṁ merā bhagata hai ..
tere bha
Line 4: le ke nimitta gītā jī matha kara ..
sā
Line 5: ra saptasalokīgītā nikāsī hai ..
i ..
f.I:13r
Line 1: hī merā vacana hai ..
õ
dasa au
Line 2: tāra śaṁkarācāraja jī ucare ..
eka
Line 3: samai brahmā jī ḍaṁḍa kara maṁḍala laika
Line 4: ra asanāna ko gaī ..
sata purīṁ sa
Line 5: khā suradāno utapati bhaī ..
tava bra .
f.III:1v
Line 1: hmā jī śiva purī ko gaī ..
svāmī jī
Line 1: kauna kāraja śiva purī do āī ho
[
[
f.III:3v
Line 1: guru mānadhātā ..
kṣetrīḍaārapu
Line 2: ro paḍhane dalaṁta ..
saṁkhāsura dāna
Line 3: valīyo udaraṁta ..1..
haje śrīnārā
Line 2: yaṇa jī kūrmarūpa ho uttare ..
kūrma
Line 3: kī mātā padmāvatī ..
pitā kaula
Line 4: va ṛṣī ..
guru sahajānaṁda ..
chatrī
Line 5: mānasarovara ..
paḍhane dalaṁta ..
ma
f.III:4v
Line 1: dhukaiṭabha dānolīdyo udharaṁta ..
[
̃o
aṣṭamī śrī
Line 2: nārāyaṇa jī kṛṣṇarūpa ho uttare ..
Line 3:
kṛṣṇa kī mātā devakī
pitā va .
Line 4: sudeva ..
guru durvasā ..
kṣetra mathurā
Line 5: purī ..
pura puṭane dalaṁta ..
kaṁsa ke
f.III:10v
Line 1: sīṭānoṁ līyoṁ udaraṁta ..8..
̃o
navamī śrī
Line 2: nārāyaṇa jī buddhirūpa ho uttare
[
f.III:11v
Line 1:
ajñāsura dāvalīyo udharaṁ
Line 2: ta ..9..
̃o
dasamī
Line 2: śrīnārāyaṇa jī nihakalaṁkarūpa
Line 3: ho uttare
aru sau kaṁnyādana kī
Line 4: jo phala hai .. sau dasa autāra paḍane
Line 5: kā athavā sunane kā phala hai ..
da
f.III:15v
Line 1: sa auvatāra śaṁkarācāraja jī u
Line 2: ttare ..
õ śrīkamalanetraka
Line 2: ṭipītāṁbara adharamurale giridharam
Line 3: mukuṭakuṁḍalakaralakuṭīyāsāvare rā
Line 4: dhe varaṁ ..1..
śrīkṛṣṇa aṣṭapada paṭata nisadina viṣṇuloka sagachate ..
śrīgu
Line 4: ro rāmānaṁda avatāra svāmī kavidata
Line 5: dāsa samāpatam ..19..
õ
giṁda ke
Line 2: mukusūdajamunā ..
jamuna jī uttare prabhu
Line 3: jāya ke ..
nāga nāganī dono baiṭe śrī kṛ
Line 4: ṣṇa jī pūche jāya ke ..1..
ye tanā garbhana ke jiye padminī
Line 3: jana garbha ke yo sujārayo ..
nagalīlā ju
Line 4: maikahīyo srīkṛṣṇaracitavicāriyo 20
õ namo kāsinī ..
Line 2:
vāsinī gaṁgatīre sadārarcitaṁ caṁdanaṁ ra
Line 3: ktapuṣpaṁ ..
sada vaṁditaṁ pūjitaṁ sarvadevaṁ na
Line 4: mo saṁkaṭākaṣṭaharanī bhavānī ..1..
idaṁ paṁca
Line 4: ratnaṁ paḍhet prātakāle ..
haret pāpa ti
Line 5: na ke baḍe dhamaṁ jñanaṁ ..
sada duḥkhame ka
f.VI:3v
Line 1: ṣṭame rakapālaṁ namo saṁkaṭākaṣṭaha
Line 2: ranī bhavānī ..7..
õ jai śiva oṁkārā ..
Line 2:
hara śiva oṁkārā ..
brahmā visṇu sadā
Line 3: śiva ardhaṁgī gaurā ..
õ hara hara hara ma ..
Line 4: hādeva ..1..
ekānana caturānana paṁcāna
Line 5: narāje ..
śiva paṁcānana rāje ..
haṁsāsa
f.VII:1v
Line 1: na garuḍāsana ..
vṛṣabhāhanasāje ..
õ ha
Line 2: ra hara hara mahādeva ..2..
dvibhujacāra ..
Line 3:
caturbhuja dasabhuja tuma sohai ..
śiva ..
Line 4:
dasabhuja tuma sohai ..
tīno rūpa ..
Line 5:
niraktā tribhuvanajagamo hai ..
õ
f.VII:2r
Line 1: hara hara hara mahādeva ..3..
[ hara hara mahādeva .. 7 ..
lakśṁī varagāya
Line 2: trī vara pārvatī saṁge ..
śiva pārvatī saṁge
Line 3: hara hara durgo tryaṁbaka śiva gaurī aṁge ..
Line 4:
õ hara hara hara mahādeva .. 8 ..
kāśī mai
Line 5: ḍakanaṁdā brahmacārī śiva ekanaṁ ..
Record revised: | 25 February 2012 |
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