Manuscript Identifiers

Collection:UPenn Ms. Coll. 390
Item:2339
Repository:Rare Book & Manuscript Library
Institution:University of Pennsylvania
Location:Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Catalog:Poleman
Item:956

Contents

Work 1

Locus:ff. 1v-4r (complete)
Author:kṛṣṇa dvaipāyana vyāsa
Title:mahābhārata
Part:bhagavadgītā-nyāsa
Incipit: f. 1v:
asya śrībhagavadgītāmālāmaṃtrasya || bhagavān vedavyāsa ṛṣiḥ || anustup chaṃdaḥ ||
Explicit: f. 4r:
dhyānāvasthitatadgatena manasā paśyaṃti ti yaṃ yogino
yasyāṃtaṃ na viduḥ surāsuragaṇā devāya tasmai namaḥ ||9||
Language:Sanskrit in Devanagari script

Work 2

Locus:ff. 4r-88v (complete)
Author:kṛṣṇa dvaipāyana vyāsa
Title:mahābhārata
Part:bhagavadgītā
Incipit: f. 4r:
dhṛtarāṣṭra uvāca || dharmakṣetre ...
(MBh. 06.023.001, numbered 1)
Explicit: f. 88r:
... nītir matir mama ||78||
(Mbh. 06.040.078)
Final rubric: ff. 88r-88v:
iti śrīmadbhagavadgītāsūpaniṣatsu brahmavidyāyāṃ yogaśā
f. 88v:
stre śrīkṛṣṇārjunasaṃvāde mokṣasaṃnyāsayogo nāma aṣṭādaśo dhyāyaḥ ||18||
Colophon: f. 88v:
śake 1712 sādhāraṇasaṃvat pauṣaśuddha caturthī taddinī ida pustakaṃ samāptaṃ
Language:Sanskrit in Devanagari script

Physical description

Form:folia
Material:European paper, browned.
Watermark:Watermark looks it is a sun. Also text, but only an F can be made out.
Extent:88
Dimension:10.3 x 15.2 cm
Foliation:92 leaves, foliated [0], 1-89. --- F. 26 is actually two leaves, one with verso blank, the other with recto blank. Same for 61.
formula: 1-25, 26[a], 26[b], 27-92
Layout:Written in 6-10 lines per leaf.

Decoration

Color:Mistakes covered over with yellow. Orange powder rubbed in over invocation, all colophons except the last, introductions of speakers and numbers.

History

Origin: zake 1712 [=1790]
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.

Facsimile

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Transcription

nyAsa :
f. 1v:
śrīgaṇeśāya namaḥ || oṃ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya || asya śrībhagavadgītāmālāmaṃtrasya || bhagavān vedavyāsa ṛṣiḥ || anustup chaṃdaḥ ||...
f. 4r:
dhyānāvasthitatadgatena manasā paśyaṃti ti yaṃ yogino
yasyāṃtaṃ na viduḥ surāsuragaṇā devāya tasmai namaḥ ||9|| mū:
f. 4r:
dhṛtarāṣṭra uvāca || dharmakṣetre ...
(MBh. 06.023.001, numbered 1)
f. 88r:
... nītir matir mama ||78||
(Mbh. 06.040.078) oṃ tat sad iti śrīmadbhagavadgītāsūpaniṣatsu brahmavidyāyāṃ yogaśā
f. 88v:
stre śrīkṛṣṇārjunasaṃvāde mokṣasaṃnyāsayogo nāma aṣṭādaśo dhyāyaḥ ||18|| yadakṣarapadabhraṣṭamātrāhīnaṃ tu yad bha
Note: TK ?
vet ||
tat sarvaṃ kṣamyatāṃ devaprasīdaparameśvara ||1|| śrīkṛṣṇārpaṇam astu || śubhaṃ bhavatu || śrīgajānanārpaṇam astu || || śake 1712 sādhāraṇasaṃvat pauṣaśuddha caturthī taddinī ida pustakaṃ samāptaṃ
Record revised:???date mo.??? 2010