Manuscript Identifiers

Collection:UPenn Ms. Coll. 390
Item:2260
Repository:Rare Book & Manuscript Library
Institution:University of Pennsylvania
Location:Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Catalog:Poleman
Item:954

Contents

Work 1

Locus:ff. 1r–71v (incomplete)
Title:Bhagavadgītā
Cover rubric: f. 1r:
.. atha śrībhagavadgītāpustakaṁ .. ..
Final rubric: f. 71v:
.. iti śrībhagavadgītā pustakaṁ ..
Colophon:None
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

   Locus:ff. 1v–3v (complete)
   Author:Kṛṣṇa Dvaipāyana Vyāsa
   Title:Bhagavadgītā Preface
   Incipit: f. 1v:
asya śrībhagavadgītāmālāmaṁtra
sya bhagavān vedavyāsa ṛṣir anuṣṭupchaṁdaḥ ..
   Explicit: f. 3v:

yaṁ vrahmā varuṇeṁdrarudramaruta<ḥ> stunvaṁti
divyaiḥ stavair vedaiḥ sāṁgapadakramopaniṣadair gāyaṁti yaṁ sāmagāḥ ..
dhyānāvasthi
tatadgatena manasā paśyaṁti yaṁ yogino yasyāṁtaṁ na viduḥ surāsuragaṇā devāya
tasmai namaḥ ..9..
Note:
BhG. Preface 4.2
   Final rubric: f. 3v:
iti nyāsaḥ ..
   Colophon:None

   Work 1.2

   Locus:ff. 3v–71r (incomplete)
   Author:Kṛṣṇa Dvaipāyana Vyāsa
   Title:Bhagavadgītā
   Incipit: f. 3v:
dhṛtarāṣṭra uvāca ..
dharmmakṣetre kurukṣetre samavetā yu
yutsavaḥ ..
māmakāḥ pāṁḍavāś caiva kim akurvata saṁjaya ..1..
Note:
BhG. 1.1; MBh. 6.23.1
   Explicit: f. 70v:

yatra yoge
śvaraḥ kṛṣṇo yatra pārtho dhanurdharaḥ ..
tatra śrīr vijayo bhūtir dhruvā nīti<ḥ> matir mama ..78..
Note:
BhG. 18.78; MBh. 6.40.78
   Final rubric: f. 71r:
iti śrībhagavadgītāsūpaniṣatsu vrahmavidyāyāṁ yogaśāstre śrīkṛṣṇā
rjjunasaṁvāde mokṣasanyāsayogo nāmāṣṭadaśo dhyāyaḥ ..18..
   Colophon: f. 71r:
ṣamvat ..
1872.. śāke ..1737.. pauṣe māse śuklapa[pe]()kṣe tithau ..8.. ravivāsare ..
idaṁ pustakaṁ pa!ṭa!<ṭha>nārthaṁ śrībhaktimūrttiśrīvaiṣṇavakruṣṇadāsajī .. maṁgalaṁ
dadāt .. liṣyataṁ paṁ śrītivārīkaliyānasāha . muḥ nagaralidhaurahamadhye

Physical description

Form:Folia
Material:Paper.
Extent:71
Dimension:11.6 x 24.7 cm
Collation: Single folios.
Condition:Very good condition with browned edges. The edges of the first and last folios are cracked and frayed.
Binding: Unbound.
Layout:Written in 7 lines per page.

Hands

Hand 1:Written with a reed pen in clear, very bold characters tilted rightward in straight lines.
Additions:

Mistakes are covered with yellow. There are a few marginal corrections.

Decoration

Color:Invocations, final rubrics, introductions of speakers, and double daṇḍas are written in red. Every other syllable of the colophon, numbers, and auspicious words are rubbed with orange powder. Mistakes are covered with yellow.
Border:Vertical double red lines rule the left and right margins of the text on each page. A rectangular frame in red appears on f. 1r:
and f. 71v.

History

Origin:The colophon states that the manuscript was completed on Sunday, on the 8th tithi of the bright fortnight in the month of pauṣa in the year 1872 of the saṁvat era and 1737 of the śaka era, which corresponds to 8 January 1816 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 – 19th century.
SubjectLC:Manuscripts – India – 19th century.
SubjectSL:Mahābhārata

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Transcription (Manuscript Layout)

f.1r
Line 1: .. atha śrībhagavadgītāpustakaṁ .. .. work 1:
f.1v
Line 1: śrīkṛṣṇo vijayate jagadekavaṁdhuḥ .. õ

asya śrībhagavadgītāmālāmaṁtra
Line 2: sya bhagavān vedavyāsa ṛṣir anuṣṭupchaṁdaḥ .. śrī kṛṣṇaḥ paramātmā devatā .
Line 3: aśocyā nanv aśocas tvaṁ prajñāvādāṁś ca bhāṣaseti vījaṁ .. [

[
f.3v
Line 2: [ yaṁ vrahmā varuṇeṁdrarudramaruta<ḥ> stunvaṁti
Line 3: divyaiḥ stavair vedaiḥ sāṁgapadakramopaniṣadair gāyaṁti yaṁ sāmagāḥ .. dhyānāvasthi
Line 4: tatadgatena manasā paśyaṁti yaṁ yogino yasyāṁtaṁ na viduḥ surāsuragaṇā devāya
Line 5: tasmai namaḥ ..9..
iti nyāsaḥ ..
work 2:
dhṛtarāṣṭra uvāca .. dharmmakṣetre kurukṣetre samavetā yu
Line 6: yutsavaḥ .. māmakāḥ pāṁḍavāś caiva kim akurvata saṁjaya ..1.. [
f.70v
Line 6: [ yatra yoge
Line 7: śvaraḥ kṛṣṇo yatra pārtho dhanurdharaḥ .. tatra śrīr vijayo bhūtir dhruvā nīti<ḥ> matir mama ..78..
f.71r
Line 1:
iti śrībhagavadgītāsūpaniṣatsu vrahmavidyāyāṁ yogaśāstre śrīkṛṣṇā
Line 2: rjjunasaṁvāde mokṣasanyāsayogo nāmāṣṭadaśo dhyāyaḥ ..18..
ṣamvat ..
Line 3: 1872.. śāke ..1737.. pauṣe māse śuklapa[pe]()kṣe tithau ..8.. ravivāsare ..
Line 4: idaṁ pustakaṁ pa!ṭa!<ṭha>nārthaṁ śrībhaktimūrttiśrīvaiṣṇavakruṣṇadāsajī .. maṁgalaṁ
Line 5: dadāt .. liṣyataṁ paṁ śrītivārīkaliyānasāha . muḥ nagaralidhaurahamadhye
f.71v
Line 1: .. iti śrībhagavadgītā pustakaṁ ..
Record revised:10 February 2012