Manuscript Identifiers

Collection:UPenn Ms. Coll. 390
Item:2228(2)
Repository:Rare Book & Manuscript Library
Institution:University of Pennsylvania
Location:Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Catalog:Poleman
Item:986
Catalog:Poleman
Item:1371

Contents

Work 1

Locus:ff. 1v-2v (complete)
Author:kṛṣṇa dvaipāyana vyāsa
Title:mahābhārata
Part:saptaślokīgītā
Note: collection of seven verses from the bhagavadgItA
Incipit: f. 1v:
śrī[ga]bhagavān uvāca oṃm ity ekākṣaraṃ ...
(MBh. 06.030.013)
Explicit: f. 2v:
... priyo si me ||7||
(Mbh. 06.040.065) yo māṃ gītā smūhena stotum ichati pāṃḍava ||
so haṃ vai saptabhiḥ ślokī stuta eva na saṃśayaḥ ||
Final rubric: f. 2v:
śrīkṛṣṇārjunasaṃvāde saptaślokīgītāsamāptaḥ ||

Work 2

Locus:ff. 2v-3v (complete)
Part:catuḥślokīsaṃhitā
Incipit: f. 2v:
śrīśuka uvāca || jñānaṃ paramaṃ guhyaṃ ...
(BhP. 2.9.30)
Explicit: f. 3v:
... na vimuhyati karhi cit ||7||
(bhAgavatapurANa 2.9.36)
Final rubric: f. 3v:
iti śrī(dbhāgavate mahāpurāṇe catuḥślokīsaṃhitā samāptaḥ ||
Colophon: f. 3v:
saṃvat ||1862|| śāke ||1727|| caitre māsi
Language:Sanskrit in Devanagari script

Physical description

Form:folia
Material:Country-made paper.
Extent:3
Dimension:10.9 x 16.7 cm
Foliation:3 leaves, foliated 1-3.
formula: 1-3
Layout:7-9 lines per page. F. 3v has 4 lines.

Decoration

Color:Orange used to highlight speakers, colophons, and verse numbers.

History

Origin: samvat 1862; zaka 1727; [=1805]
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:Puranas -- Bhāgavatapurāṇa -- Catuḥślokīsaṃhitā.
SubjectLC:Manuscripts, Sanskrit -- 19th century.
SubjectLC:Manuscripts -- India -- 19th century.
SubjectSL:Purāṇa. Ancient Cosmogony, Genealogy, Narrative

Facsimile

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Transcription

f. 1v:
śrīgaṇeśāya namaḥ || śrī[ga]bhagavān uvāca oṃm ity ekākṣaraṃ ...
(MBh. 06.030.013)
f. 2v:
... priyo si me ||7||
(Mbh. 06.040.065) yo māṃ gītā smūhena stotum ichati pāṃḍava ||
so haṃ vai saptabhiḥ ślokī stuta eva na saṃśayaḥ || śrīkṛṣṇārjunasaṃvāde saptaślokīgītāsamāptaḥ ||
f. 2v:
śrīgaṇeśāya namaḥ || śrīśuka uvāca || jñānaṃ paramaṃ guhyaṃ ...
(BhP. 2.9.30)
f. 3v:
... na vimuhyati karhi cit ||7||
(BhP. 2.9.36) iti śrī(dbhāgavate mahāpurāṇe catuḥślokīsaṃhitā samāptaḥ || śubhaṃ bhūyāt || saṃvat ||1862|| śāke ||1727|| caitre māsi
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