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 |
Locus: | ff. [0]r–81v |
Title: | Bhagavadgītā |
Cover rubric: |
f. [0]r
atha bhagavadgītāprāraṁbhaḥ |
Final rubric: |
f. 81v
.. iti bhagavadgītā samāpto yam .. |
Locus: | ff. [0]v–2v |
Title: | Bhagavadgītā Preface |
Incipit: |
[0]v
asya śrībhagavadgītāmālāmaṁtrasya .. śrībhagavān vedavyāsaṛṣiḥ .. |
Explicit: |
f. 2r
mūkaṁ karoti vācālaṁ paṁguṁlaṁghayate girīn .. yatkṛpā tam ahaṁ vaṁde paramānaṁdamādhavam ( BhG. Preface 2.14 ) (Anuṣṭubh) |
Final rubric: | none |
Language: | Sanskrit in Devanāgarī script |
Locus: | ff. 2v–78v |
Author: | Kṛṣṇa Dvaipāyana Vyāsa |
Title: | Bhagavadgītā |
Incipit: |
f. 2v
dhṛtarāṣṭra uvāca .. dharmakṣetre kurukṣetre samavetā yuyutsavaḥ .. māmakāḥ pāṇḍavāś caiva kim akurvata saṁjaya ..1 (Anuṣṭubh) ( BhG. 1.1= MBh. 6.23.1 ) |
Explicit: |
f. 78v
yatra yogeśvaraḥ kṛṣṇo yatra pārtho dhanurdharaḥ .. tatra śrīr vijayo bhūtir dhruvā nītir ma[ma]tir mama ..78.. ( BhG. 18.78= MBh. 6.40.78 ) (Anuṣṭubh) |
Final rubric: |
f. 78v
iti śrīmadbhagavadgītāsūpaniṣatsu brahmavidyāyāṁ yogaśāstre śrīkṛṣṇārjunasaṁvāde mokṣasaṁnyāsayogo nāma aṣṭādaśo dhyāyaḥ 18 |
Colophon: |
f. 79r
śake 1733 prajāpa!tī!<ti> nāma saṁvatsare śrāvaṇa śukladvitīyā iṁduvāsare idaṁ pustakaṁ lekhanasamāptaṁ |
Language: | Sanskrit in Devanāgarī script |
Locus: | ff. 79v–81r |
Part: | Bhagavadgītā Āratī |
Rubric: |
f. 79v
ārati.. |
Incipit: |
f. 79v
sukhakaraṇī duḥkhaharaṇī jananī vedāci .. agādamahimātūjhā nakaḷeviraṁci .. titubrahmitallinahoti saṭhāṁ īci .. arjunā cābhāgye pragaṭamukhīci .. jayadeva jaya deva jaya devī gīte ārati bobāḷu ārati ārate jaya deva jaya deva ..1.. |
Explicit: |
f. 81r
gītāsu gītāḥ karttavyāḥ kim anyaiḥ śāstrakoṭibhiḥ yāḥ svayaṁ padmanābhasya mukhapadmād viniḥsṛtā ..1.. (Anuṣṭubh) |
Final rubric: | none |
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. This manuscript also includes an ārati in Marathi closed with Sanskrit verses on f. 79v–f. 81r. |
Language: | Marāṭhī and Sanskrit in Devanāgarī script |
Form: | Folia |
Material: | European paper with watermarks. The Last two folios, 80–81, are made of country paper without watermarks consisting of thinner stock. |
Watermark: | On f. 5 etc. is found the watermark “ JW HA . . . TMAN ” and some kind of crest with “E” and “C” in different parts. Especially on folios 22–23 is visible “J Whatman” in small caps. (See http://www.baph.org.uk/watermarks) “Turkey Mills” and the date “1808” as on the pair of folios ff. 34–35 (together as unit), and also “1809” on the pair of folios ff. 64–65. |
Extent: | 81 folia |
Dimension: | 11.9 x 17.7 cm (h x w) |
Foliation: | Foliated in the upper left and lower right margins on the verso of each folio 1–80 and in the lower left margin on f. 81v . |
Formula: | [0], 1–81 |
Signatures: | bha0 gī0 appears above the folio number in the upper left margin, a0 above the adhyāya number appears opposite it in the upper right margin, and rāma is written just above the folio number in the lower right margin on the verso of each folio 1-79. The last also appears above the number in the lower right margin on f. 80v |
Collation: | Single and paired leaves. |
Condition: | Excellent with browned edges. The last two folios have tattered edges. |
Binding: | Unbound |
Seal: | A circular stamp on the lower right of f. [0]r and [[facs=f181v, locus=f. 81v]] reads Library University Pennsylvania. |
Layout: | Written in 9–10 lines per page. |
Hand 1: | Written in clear, regular characters tilted forward in straight lines. Sometimes uses Marathi l, e.g. f. 1r, line 7, but contrast f. 2r bottom line, left. Spells oṁ instead of using special sign. |
Additions: |
Mistakes are covered over with yellow. |
Color: | The final rubric and double daṇḍas are written in red. Mistakes are covered over with yellow. Orange powder is rubbed over invocations, colophons, and introductions of speakers, in some cases, such as on f. 78v, over every other syllable. |
Border: | Two sets of vertical double red lines rule the left and right margins of the text on each page. A rectangular frame in red appears on f. [0]r. |
Origin: | The colophon states that the manuscript was completed on Monday, on the 2nd tithi of the bright fortnight in the month of śrāvaṇa in the year 1733, called prajāpati, of the śaka era, which corresponds to 22 July 1811 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. |
SubjectLC: | Mahābhārata – Bhagavadgītā. |
SubjectLC: | Manuscripts, Sanskrit – 18th century. |
SubjectLC: | Manuscripts – India – 18th century. |
SubjectSL: | Mahābhārata |
Whole image | Individual pages | |
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f. [0]v, f. 1r | f. [0]v f. 1r | |
f. 1v, f. 2r | f. 1v f. 2r | |
f. 2v, f. 3r | f. 2v f. 3r |
Whole image | Individual pages | |
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f. 79v, f. 80r | f. 79v f. 80r | |
f. 80v, f. 81r | f. 80v f. 81r |