Manuscript Identifiers

Collection:UPenn Ms. Coll. 390
Item:2233
Repository:Rare Book & Manuscript Library
Institution:University of Pennsylvania
Location:Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Catalog:Poleman
Item:949

Contents

Work 1

Locus:ff. 1v-5r (complete)
Author:kṛṣṇa dvaipāyana vyāsa
Title:mahābhārata
Part:bhagavadgītā-nyāsa
Incipit: f. 1v:
asya śrībhagavadgītāmālāmaṃtrasya bhagavān vedavyāsa ṛṣiḥ anuṣṭup chaṃdāṃsi śrīkṛṣṇaḥ paramātmā devatā aśocyānanvaśocas tvaṃ prajñāvādāṃś ca bhāṣasa iti bījaṃ
Explicit: f. 5r:
mūkaṃ karoti vācālaṃ pa{ṃ}guṃ [llaṃ](ghayate girīn
yat kṛpā tam ahaṃ vaṃde paramānaṃdamādhavam 9 hariḥ om
Language:Sanskrit in Devanagari script

Work 2

Locus:ff. 5v-119v (incomplete)
Author:kṛṣṇa dvaipāyana vyāsa
Title:mahābhārata
Part:bhagavadgītā
Incipit: f. 5v:
dhṛtarāṣṭra uvāca dharmakṣetre ...
(MBh. 06.023.001, numbered 1)
Explicit: f. 119v:
... bhūtir dhruvā nīti
Note: rest of line destroyed, f. 119v picks up:
78 (d
(Mbh. 06.040.078)
Final rubric: f. 119v:
iti śrīmadbhagavadgītāsūpa
Note: [TK] 4 or so aks. missing
vidyāyāṃ yogaśāstre śrīkṛṣṇārjunasaṃ
Note: 4 or so aks. missing
paniṣadarthapratipādakamokṣasaṃnyāsayo
Note: 3 or so missing
māṣṭādaśo dhyāyaḥ
Language:Sanskrit in Devanagari script

Physical description

Form:folia
Material:Browned European paper, chain lines.
Watermark:watermark looks like Lady Britannia in a seal with her shield (f. 37, for example). Watermark on f. 22 and f. 104 reads: W & J HARRIS TURKEY MILL 1839 F. 34 and f. 35 and f. 36 and f. 39 and f. 42 and f. 51 and f. 55 and f. 60 and f. 63 and f. 65 and f. 75 and f. 80 and f. 81 and f. 95 and f. 96 has: J & J TOWN TURKEY MILL 1840 F. 58 has: W x SON F. 99 has a name difficult to read, maybe R x x x x AR
Extent:119
Dimension:10.3 x 19.4 cm
Foliation:119 leaves, foliated 1-119.
formula: 1-119
Condition:F. 119 has a portion ripped off.
Layout:Written in 6-8 lines per leaf. Four lines on f. 119v.

Decoration

Color:Mistakes covered over with gray or yellow. Orange powder rubbed in over invocations, introduction of speakers, and numbers. A few black blotches.

History

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. ”

Subject headings

SubjectLC:Mahābhārata -- Bhagavadgītā.
SubjectLC:Manuscripts, Sanskrit -- 18th century.
SubjectLC:Manuscripts -- India -- 18th century.

Facsimile

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Transcription

nyAsa :
śrīgaṇeśāya namaḥ oṃ namaḥ śrīsaccidānaṃdāya paramātmane sadgurave oṃ asya śrībhagavadgītāmālāmaṃtrasya bhagavān vedavyāsa ṛṣiḥ anuṣṭup chaṃdāṃsi śrīkṛṣṇaḥ paramātmā devatā aśocyānanvaśocas tvaṃ prajñāvādāṃś ca bhāṣasa iti bījaṃ ...
f. 5r:
mūkaṃ karoti vācālaṃ pa{ṃ}guṃ [llaṃ](ghayate girīn
yat kṛpā tam ahaṃ vaṃde paramānaṃdamādhavam 9 hariḥ om mUka :
f. 5v:
dhṛtarāṣṭra uvāca dharmakṣetre ...
(MBh. 06.023.001, numbered 1)
f. 119v:
... bhūtir dhruvā nīti
Note: rest of line destroyed, f. 119v picks up:
78 (d
(Mbh. 06.040.078) (d iti śrīmadbhagavadgītāsūpa
Note: [TK] 4 or so aks. missing
vidyāyāṃ yogaśāstre śrīkṛṣṇārjunasaṃ
Note: 4 or so aks. missing
paniṣadarthapratipādakamokṣasaṃnyāsayo
Note: 3 or so missing
māṣṭādaśo dhyāyaḥ
Record revised:???date mo.??? 2010