Manuscript Identifiers

Collection:UPenn Ms. Coll. 390
Item:2241
Repository:Rare Book & Manuscript Library
Institution:University of Pennsylvania
Location:Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Catalog:Poleman
Item:969

Contents

Work 1

Locus:ff. [0]v-81 (complete)
Author:kṛṣṇa dvaipāyana vyāsa
Title:mahābhārata

   Work 1.1

   Locus:ff. [0]v-2v (complete)
   Part:bhagavadgītā nyāsa
   Incipit: [0]v:
oṃ asya śrībhagavadgītāmālāmaṃtrasya || śrībhagavān vedavyāsaṛṣiḥ || anuṣṭup chaṃdaḥ || śrīkṛṣṇa paramātmā devatā || kvacitkānīcinnānāchaṃdāṃsi || aśocyān anvaśocas tvaṃ prajñāvādāṃś ca bhāṣasetibījaṃ || ...
(Text mostly follows Mbh Supp06.txt; Line 2740: 06.002.0001-0043 with some variations, abbreviation, etc.)
   Language:Sanskrit in Devanagari script

   Work 1.2

   Locus:ff. 2v-78v l. 4 (complete)
   Part:bhagavadgītā
   Final rubric: f. 78v:
iti śrīmadbhagavadgītāsūpaniśatsu brahmavidyāyāṃ yogaśāstre śrīkṛṣṇārjunasaṃvāde mokṣasaṃnyāsayogo nāma aṣṭādaśodhyāyaḥ 18
Note: = end of fol. 78v
   Language:Sanskrit in Devanagari script

   Work 1.3

   Locus:ff. 79v-81 (complete)
   Part:bhagavadgītā āratī
   Explicit: f. 81:
śrī rāmacaṃdra gītāsu gītāḥ karttavyāḥ kim anyaiḥ śāstrakoṭibhiḥ yāḥ svayaṃ padmanābhasya mukhapadmādviniḥ sṛtā ||1|| ||

Physical description

Form:folia
Material:european paper w. watermarks; Last two folios, 80-81 are on country made paper; no watermarks, thinner stock.
Watermark:European paper with watermarks; e.g., JW HA . . . TMAN (fol. 5, etc.); some kind of crest with E and a C in different parts. See especially, folios 22-23: JWhatman (in small caps) - J.Whatman {see: http://www.baph.org.uk/imagepages/watermarks/whatman.html } - from "Turkey Mills" -- Date of "1808" - see ff. 34-35 (together as unit); also "1809" see 64-65 (as unit)
Extent:81
Dimension:11.9 x 17.7 cm
Foliation: formula: [0],1-81
Condition:excellent

Decoration

Color:Double daNDas and final colophon in red. Mistakes covered over with yellow. Orange powder rubbed in over invocation, colophons and introductions of speakers, being rubbed in over every other syllable in some cases.

History

Origin:"not given" zaka 1733 [=1811]
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.
SubjectLC:Manuscripts, Sanskrit -- 18th century.
SubjectLC:Manuscripts -- India -- 18th century.

Facsimile

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Transcription

nyAsa :
f. [0]v:
śrīgaṇeZāya namaḥ || śrīgurubhyoṃ namaḥ || śrīrāmacaṃdrāya namaḥ || oṃ asya śrībhagavadgītāmālāmaṃtrasya || śrībhagavān vedavyāsaṛṣiḥ || anuṣṭup chaṃdaḥ || śrīkṛṣṇa paramātmā devatā || kvacitkānīcinnānāchaṃdāṃsi || aśocyān anvaśocas tvaṃ prajñāvādāṃś ca bhāṣasetibījaṃ || ... mū:
f. 78v:
... hariḥ oṃ tat sad iti śrīmadbhagavadgītāsūpaniśatsu brahmavidyāyāṃ yogaśāstre śrīkṛṣṇārjunasaṃvāde mokṣasaṃnyāsayogo nāma aṣṭādaśodhyāyaḥ 18 śrīkṛṣṇārpaṇam astu || śrīsītārāmacaṃdrārpaṇam astu śrīgurūrājacaraṇārvidārpaṇam astu || śrīrāma || AratI :
f. 81:
śrī rāmacaṃdra gītāsu gītāḥ karttavyāḥ kim anyaiḥ śāstrakoṭibhiḥ yāḥ svayaṃ padmanābhasya mukhapadmādviniḥ sṛtā ||1|| || śrīkṛṣṇacaraṇāraviṃdārpaṇam astu || ca || ca || śrī ||
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