Manuscript Identifiers

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

Contents

Work 1

Locus:ff. 1v-6v (complete)
Title:bhagavadgītā nyāsa
Cover rubric:atha bhagavadgītāprāraṃbhaḥ
Incipit: f. 1:
asya śrībhagavadgītāmālāmaṃtrasya bhagavānvedavyāsa ṛṣiḥ ||
Language:Sanskrit in Devanagari script

Work 2

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

Physical description

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.

Hands

Hand 1:Clearly written akṣaras
Additions:

Notation on the final folio, f. 180:
zlokaiko dhRtarASTrasya navaduryodhanasya ca .. dvAtriMzatasaMjayenoktAvedASTAvarjunasya ca ..1.. tatvAvabodhevedAbdhipaMcazrIkRSNAnirmitAH ..2.. evaM gItA pramANaMtu zlokAH saptazatAni ca ..2.. dhRtarASTraH 1 .. duryodhanaH ..9.. saMjayaH ..32.. arjunaH ..84.. zrIkRSNaH ..574.. eveMsaMkhyA ..700

Decoration

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 .

History

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. ”

Subject headings

SubjectSL:Mahābhārata

Transcription

nyAsa :
atha bhagavadgītāprāraṃbhaḥ śrīgaṇeśāya namaḥ || oṃ asya śrībhagavadgītāmālāmaṃtrasya bhagavānvedavyāsa ṛṣiḥ || ... mū:
f. 7r:
dhṛtarāṣṭra uvāca || dharmmakṣetre kurukṣetre ... pataṃti pitaro hy eṣāṃ luptapiṃ†??† [missing 117 leaves, ṃBh| 6|23|42d-6|35|24a] ni paśyaṃti ke cid ātmānam ātmanā |
f. 177v:
tatra śrīr vijayo bhūtir dhruvānītir matir mama ||78|| hariḥ oṃ tat sad iti śrīmadbhagavadgītāsūpaniṣatsū vrahmavidyāyāṃ yogaśāstre śrīṣṇārjunasaṃvāde sakalopaniṣad arthapradipādakamokṣasaṃnyāsayogo namaṣṭādaśo dhyāya ||18|| śake ||1753|| śubhakṛtanāmasaṃvatsare adhikavaiśākhavadya ||8|| tavāsare || tad dine gītāsamāptoyaṃm || lekhakapāṭhakadvayo śubhaṃ || idaṃ pūsta [missing 1 leaf, end of colophon, final rubric, etc|]
Record revised:???date mo.??? 2010