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 |
Locus: | ff. 0r–15v, 133r–181v |
Title: | Bhagavadgītā |
Rubric: |
f. [0]r
atha bhagavadgītāprāraṁbhaḥ |
Locus: | ff. 1v–6v |
Author: | Unknown |
Part: | Bhagavadgītā Preface |
Incipit: |
f. 1v
asya śrībhagavadgītāmālāmaṁtrasya bhagavān vedavyāsa ṛṣiḥ .. |
Explicit: |
f. 6v
yaṁ brahmā varuṇeṁdrarudramarutaḥ stu!nva!<va>ṁti divyaiḥ stavair vedaiḥ sāṁgapadakramopaniṣadair gāyaṁti yaṁ sāmagāḥ .. dhyānāvasthitatadgatena manasā paśyaṁti yaṁ yogino yasyāṁtaṁ na viduḥ surāsuragaṇā devāya tasmai namaḥ ..9.. ( BhG. Preface 4.2 ) (Śārdūlavikrīḍita) |
Final rubric: | None |
Locus: | ff. 7r–15v, 133r–178v |
Author: | Kṛṣṇa Dvaipāyana Vyāsa |
Title: | Bhagavadgītā |
Incipit: |
f. 7r
dhṛtarāṣṭra uvāca .. dharmakṣetre kurukṣetre samavetā yuyutsavaḥ .. māmakāḥ pāṁḍavāś caiva kim akurvata saṁjaya ..1.. (Anuṣṭubh) ( BhG. 1.1= MBh. 6.23.1 ) |
Explicit: |
f. 177r–f. 177v
yatra yogeśvaraḥ kṛṣṇo yatra pārtho dhanurdharaḥ .. tatra śrīr vijayo bhūtir dhruvā nītir matir mama ..78.. ( BhG. 18.78= MBh. 6.40.78 ) (Anuṣṭubh) |
Final rubric: |
f. 177v–f. 178r
iti śrīmadbhagavadgītāsūpaniṣatsu brahmavidyāyāṁ yogaśāstre śrī<kṛ>ṣṇārjunasaṁvāde sakalopaniṣadarthapra!di!<ti>pādakamokṣasaṁnyāsayogo nāma aṣṭādaśo dhyāya<ḥ> ..18.. |
Colophon: |
f. 178r
śake ..1753.. śubhakṛtanāmasaṁvatsare .. adhikavaiśākhavadya ..8.. jñavāsare .. taddine gītāsamāpto ya!ṁ!m .. lekhakapāṭhakadva!yo!<yayoḥ> śubhaṁ .. idaṁ pūsta |
Final rubric: |
f. 178v
.. śrīmadbhagavadgītā samāptaḥ .. |
Locus: | f. 180r–f. 180v |
Part: | Accounting |
Incipit: |
f. 180r
ślokaiko dhṛtarāṣṭrasya nava duryodhanasya ca .. dvātriṁśat saṁjayenoktā vedāṣṭāv arjunasya ca ..1.. (Anuṣṭubh) |
Explicit: |
f. 180v
evaṁ saṁkhyā ..700 |
Final rubric: |
f. 181v
.. śrīmadbhagavadgītā samāptaḥ .. |
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. This manuscript also includes, on f. 180r–f. 180v, an accounting of the verses spoken by each character in the dialogue. The manuscript is missing most of its folios, ff. 16–132, containing BhG. 1.42d–13.24a corresponding to MBh. 6.23.42d–6.35.24a. The gap interrupts BhG. 1.42d on f. 15v and resumes in BhG. 13.24a on f. 133r. |
Language: | Sanskrit in Devanāgarī script |
Form: | Folia |
Material: | Paper |
Extent: | 65 folia |
Dimension: | 9.4 x 13.8 cm (h x w) |
Foliation: | Foliated in the upper left and lower right margins on the verso of each folio 1–15, 133–177, and 180 and on f. 178r and f. 181r , on which the number was changed from 179 to 178. Number 179 is skipped but there is no text missing, and there is one blank folio after the unnumbered front leaf. From the shape of the tears, it appears that f. [i] may have originally been placed between f. 178 and f. 180. |
Formula: | [0], [i], 1–15, 133–177, 178, 180–181 |
Signatures: | gī0 appears above the folio number in the upper left margin, and a0 followed by the adhyāya number appears opposite it in the upper right margin on the verso of each folio 1–15, 133–177, and 180 and on f. 178r and f. 181r. |
Collation: | Single folia |
Condition: | Fair. The script is in very good shape; however, the paper is torn on the left side, which occasionally creates lacunae in the text. While the tears are usually confined to the left margin, several akṣaras in each of several verses in BhG. 1.28–42= MBh. 6.23.28–42 are missing on f. 13r, f. 13v, f. 14r, f. 14v, f. 15r, and f. 15v. |
Binding: | Unbound |
Seal: | A circular stamp in blue ink on the lower right of f. [0]r and on the lower right of f. 181v reads Library University Pennsylvania. A white label on which is hand-written No. 492 appears on f. [0]r. |
Layout: | Written in five lines per page. |
Hand 1: | Written in clear, bold, regular characters tilted rightward in straight lines. |
Additions: |
There are no additions nor marginal corrections. |
Color: | Invocation, final rubrics, introduction of speakers, and double daṇḍas are written in red. Mistakes are covered over with yellow. |
Border: | Two sets of vertical double red lines rule the left and right margins of the text on each page. A rectangular frame in red appears on f. [0]r and f. 181v. |
Origin: | The colophon states that the manuscript was completed on Thursday, on the 8th tithi of the dark fortnight in the intercalary month of vaiśākha in the year 1753, called śubhakṛta, of the śaka era, which corresponds with 5 May 1831 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. |
SubjectLC: | Mahābhārata – Bhagavadgītā. |
SubjectLC: | Manuscripts, Sanskrit – 19th century. |
SubjectLC: | Manuscripts – India – 19th century. |
SubjectSL: | Mahābhārata |
Whole image | Individual pages | |
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f. 1v, f. 2r | f. 1v f. 2r | |
f. 2v, f. 3r | f. 2v f. 3r | |
f. 3v, f. 4r | f. 3v f. 4r | |
f. 4v, f. 5r | f. 4v f. 5r | |
f. 5v, f. 6r | f. 5v f. 6r | |
f. 6v, f. 7r | f. 6v f. 7r |