Manuscript Identifiers

Collection:UPenn Ms. Coll. 390
Item:2336
Repository:Rare Book & Manuscript Library
Institution:University of Pennsylvania
Location:Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Catalog:Poleman
Item:955

Contents

Work 1 (complete)

Locus:(revised foliation scheme) ff. 1r–[163]v
Title:Bhagavadgītā
Cover rubric: (revised foliation scheme) f. 1r
.. atha bhagavadgītāprāraṁbhaḥ ..
Colophon: (revised foliation scheme) f. [163]r
saṁvat ..1841.. kātīkamadhye līṣītvā brāhāhmaṇakṛṣṇadaṁtaḥ paṭhanārtha kāsīdāsa vaiṣṇavavairagī ..
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.

Language:Sanskrit in Devanāgarī script

   Work 1.1 (complete)

   Locus:(revised foliation scheme) f. 1v–f. 5v
   Title:Bhagavadgītā Preface
   Incipit: (revised foliation scheme) f. 1v
asya śrībhagavadgītāmālāmaṁtrasya śrī<bha>gavān vedavyāsa ṛṣiḥ ..
   Explicit: f. 5vf. 6r
yaṁ brahmā varuṇeṁdrarudramarutaḥ stu[nava](nva)ṁti divyaiḥ stavair
vedaiḥ sāṁgapadakramopaniṣadair gāyaṁti yaṁ sāmagā(ḥ) ..
dhyānāvasthitatadgatena manasā paśyaṁti yaṁ yogino
yasyāṁttaṁ na viduḥ surāsuragaṇā devāya tasmai namaḥ ( BhG. Preface 4.2 ) (Śārdūlavikrīḍita)
   Final rubric: (revised foliation scheme) f. 6r
iti nyāsa ..

   Work 1.2 (complete)

   Locus:(revised foliation scheme) f. 6r–162v
   Author:Kṛṣṇa Dvaipāyana Vyāsa
   Title:Bhagavadgītā
   Incipit: (revised foliation scheme) f. 6r
dhṛtarāṣṭra uvāca ..
dharmakṣetre kurukṣetre samavetā yuyutsavaḥ ..
māmakāḥ pāṇḍavāś caiva kim akurvata saṁjaya ..1.. (Anuṣṭubh) ( BhG. 1.1= MBh. 6.23.1 )
   Explicit: f. 162rf. 162v
yatra yogeśvaraḥ kṛ!ṣṇa!<ṣṇo> yatra pārtho dhanurdharaḥ ..
tatra śrīr vijayo bhūti<r> dhruvā nītir matir mama ..78.. ( BhG. 18.78= MBh. 6.40.78 ) (Anuṣṭubh)
   Final rubric: (revised foliation scheme) f. 162v
iti śrībhagavadgītāsūpaniṣatsu vrahmavidyāyāṁ yogaśāstre śrīkṛṣṇārjunasaṁvāde mokṣasaṁnyāsayogo nāma aṣṭādaśo dhyāyaḥ ..18..

Physical description

Form:Folia
Material:Paper
Extent:163 folia
Dimension:9.3 x 14.6 cm (h x w)
Foliation: The original numbering 156–163 is corrected to 155–162. Numbers 156–157 are corrected to 155–156, and 159–160 to 158–159 by writing the correct number below the original number in the upper left and lower right margins. The original numbers 158, 162–163 are written over with the correct numbers 157, 161–162. Number 161 is corrected to 160 by both methods.
   Formula:(revised) 1–162, [163]
   Signatures:Written above the number in the upper left margin is gī0, and written above the number in the lower right margin is rāma.
Foliation: Foliated in the upper left and lower right margins on the verso of each folio except the last which is unnumbered.
   Formula:(original) 1–154, 156–163, [164]
Collation: Single folia
Condition:The first leaf has tattered edges but no text besides the number in the upper left margin is affected. The red ink is considerably worn off and the black ink is wearing off on (revised foliation scheme) f. 162v(revised foliation scheme) f. [163]r. These leaves have numerous water stains, and the paper in the margin is flaking on (revised foliation scheme) f. [163]r.
Binding: Unbound
Seal: A circular stamp on the lower right of (revised foliation scheme) f. 1r and (revised foliation scheme) f. [163]v reads Library University Pennsylvania.
Layout:Written in 5 lines per page.

Hands

Hand 1:Written in clear, bold characters tilted rightward in slightly wavy lines.
Additions:

Mistakes are covered over with yellow. There are marginal corrections by a hand other than the scribe's.

Decoration

Color:Invocation, rubrics and final rubrics, introductions of speakers, and double daṇḍas are written in red. Mistakes covered over with yellow.
Border:Vertical double red lines rule the left and right margins of the text on each page. A decorated rectangular frame in red appears on (revised foliation scheme) f. [163]v.

History

Origin:The colophon states that the manuscript was completed on in the middle of the month of kārttikeya in the year 1841 of the saṁvat era, which corresponds to October 1784 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.

Subject headings

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

Record history

Revised: 10 February 2012

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Transcription (text structure)


.. atha bhagavadgītāprāraṁbhaḥ ..

Work 1:
.. śrīgaṇeśāya namaḥ ..
õ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya ..

asya śrībhagavadgītāmālāmaṁtrasya śrī<bha>gavān vedavyāsa ṛṣiḥ ..
anuṣṭup chaṁdaḥ ..
śrīkṛṣṇaparamātmādevatā
aśo!cya!<cyā>n anvaśocas tvaṁ prajñāvādāṁś ca bhāṣaseti bījaṁ ..
<...>
<...>
<...>
yaṁ brahmā varuṇeṁdrarudramarutaḥ stu[nava](nva)ṁti divyaiḥ stavair
vedaiḥ sāṁgapadakramopaniṣadair gāyaṁti yaṁ sāmagā(ḥ) ..
dhyānāvasthitatadgatena manasā paśyaṁti yaṁ yogino
yasyāṁttaṁ na viduḥ surāsuragaṇā devāya tasmai namaḥ ( BhG. Preface 4.2 ) (Śārdūlavikrīḍita)
iti nyāsa ..

Work 2:
dhṛtarāṣṭra uvāca ..
dharmakṣetre kurukṣetre samavetā yuyutsavaḥ ..
māmakāḥ pāṇḍavāś caiva kim akurvata saṁjaya ..1.. (Anuṣṭubh) ( BhG. 1.1= MBh. 6.23.1 )
<...>
<...>
yatra yogeśvaraḥ kṛ!ṣṇa!<ṣṇo> yatra pārtho dhanurdharaḥ ..
tatra śrīr vijayo bhūti<r> dhruvā nītir matir mama ..78.. ( BhG. 18.78= MBh. 6.40.78 ) (Anuṣṭubh)
hariḥ
iti śrībhagavadgītāsūpaniṣatsu vrahmavidyāyāṁ yogaśāstre śrīkṛṣṇārjunasaṁvāde mokṣasaṁnyāsayogo nāma aṣṭādaśo dhyāyaḥ ..18..

End:
yādṛṣṭaṁ pustakaṁ dṛṣṭvā tādṛśaṁ laṣītaṁ mayā
yadi sudhaṁmasudhaṁ vā mama doṣo na deyate 1 .. (Anuṣṭubh)
saṁvat ..1841.. kātīkamadhye līṣītvā brāhāhmaṇakṛṣṇadaṁtaḥ paṭhanārtha kāsīdāsa vaiṣṇavavairagī ..
śubhaṁ bhavatu ..
śrī