Collection: | UPenn Ms. Coll. 390 |
Item: | 492 |
Repository: | Rare Book & Manuscript Library |
Institution: | University of Pennsylvania |
Location: | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America |
Catalog: | Poleman |
Item: | 945 |
Locus: | ff. 1v-6v (complete) |
Title: | bhagavadgītā nyāsa |
Cover rubric: | atha bhagavadgītāprāraṃbhaḥ |
Incipit: |
f. 1: asya śrībhagavadgītāmālāmaṃtrasya bhagavānvedavyāsa ṛṣiḥ || |
Language: | Sanskrit in Devanagari script |
Locus: | f. 7r-178v (incomplete) |
Author: | kṛṣṇa dvaipāyana vyāsa |
Title: | mahābhārata |
Part: | bhagavadgītā |
Incipit: |
f. 7r: dhṛtarāṣṭra uvāca || dharmmakṣetre kurukṣetre ... |
Explicit: |
f. 177v: ... tatra śrīr vijayo bhūtir dhruvānītir matir mama ||78|| |
Final rubric: | hariḥ oṃ tat sad iti śrīmadbhagavadgītāsūpaniṣatsū vrahmavidyāyāṃ yogaśāstre śrīṣṇārjunasaṃvāde sakalopaniṣad arthapradipādakamokṣasaṃnyāsayogo namaṣṭādaśo dhyāya ||18|| |
Colophon: |
f. 177v-178r: śake ||1753|| śubhakṛtanāmasaṃvatsare adhikavaiśākhavadya ||8|| tavāsare || tad dine gītāsamāptoyaṃm || lekhakapāṭhakadvayo śubhaṃ || idaṃ pūsta |
Signatures: | none notednot noted |
Language: | Sanskrit in Devanagari script |
Form: | folia |
Material: | paper |
Extent: | 180 |
Dimension: | 9.4 x 13.8 cm |
Foliation: | not noted
formula: I: 1-6; II: 7-15, 133-178, 180 |
Collation: | single folia |
Condition: | Fair-Good. The script is in very good shape, though the paper is worn away on the left side, but affects the text only marginally. The worst folio is 15, but this is missing only 4-5 akSaras at bottom. |
Binding: | none |
Layout: | Five lines per leaf. |
Hand 1: | Clearly written akṣaras |
Additions: |
Notation on the final folio,
f. 180: |
Color: | Invocation, colophons, part of final colophon, introduction of speakers and double daNDas in red. Mistakes covered over with yellow. text is badly mutilated, the left hand corners having been hacked off. On some folios the upper right hand corner is also missing. On most folios, though, the text is all there. |
Border: | not noted . |
Origin: | śake ||1753|| śubhakṛtanāmasaṃvatsare adhikavaiśākhavadya ||8|| tavāsare || |
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. ” |
SubjectSL: | Mahābhārata |
Record revised: | ???date mo.??? 2010 |
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