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. 1v-3v (complete)
Author:kṛṣṇa dvaipāyana vyāsa
Title:mahābhārata
Part:bhagavadgītā-nyāsa
Incipit: f 1r: :
oṃ asya śrībhagavadgītāmālāmaṃtrasya bhagavān vedavyāsa ṛṣir anuṣṭupchaṃdaḥ || śrī kṛṣṇaḥ paramātmā devatā | aśocyā nanV aśocas tvaṃ prajñāvādāṃś ca bhāṣaseti vījaṃ ||
Explicit: f 3v: :
dhyAnAvasthitatadgatena manasA pazyaMti yaM yogino (
yasyAt taM na viduH surAsuragaNA devAya tasmai namaH ||9||
Final rubric:iti nyāsaḥ ||
Language:Sanskrit in Devanagari script

Work 2

Locus:ff. 3v-71r (complete)
Author:kṛṣṇa dvaipāyana vyāsa
Title:mahābhārata
Part:bhagavadgītā
Incipit: f 3v: :
dhRtarASTra uvAca || dharmmakSetre [...]
(MBh. 06.023.001, numbered 1)
Explicit: f. 70v: :
... nīti matir mama |78||
(Mbh. 06.040.078)
Final rubric: f. 71r: :
iti śrībhagavadgītāsūpaniṣatsu vrahmavidyāyāṃ yogaśāstre śrīkṛṣṇārjjunasaṃvāde mokṣasanyāsayogo nāmāṣṭadaśo dhyāyaḥ ||18||
Colophon: f. 71r:
ṣamvat ||1872|| śāke ||1737|| pauṣe māse śuklapa
Note: was: pe
kṣe tithau ||8|| ravivāsare || idaṃ pustakaṃ paṭanārthaṃ śrībhaktimūrttiśrīvaiṣṇavakraṣṇadāsajī || maṃgalaṃ dadāt || liṣyataṃ paṃ śrītivārīkaliyānasāha | muḥ nagaralidhauraha madhye
Language:Sanskrit in Devanagari script

Physical description

Form:folia
Material:paper
Extent:71
Dimension:11.6 x 24.7 cm
Foliation:71 leaves, foliated 1-71.
formula: 1-71
Layout:Written in 7 lines per leaf.

Decoration

Color:Invocations, colophon, introductions of speakers, and double daṇḍas in red. Mistakes covered with yellow. Orange powder rubbed in over numbers.

History

Origin: saMvat 1872; zaka 1737; [=1815]
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 :
śrīkṛṣṇo vijayate jagadekavaṃdhuḥ || oṃ asya śrībhagavadgītāmālāmaṃtrasya bhagavān vedavyāsa ṛṣir anuṣṭupchaṃdaḥ || śrī kṛṣṇaḥ paramātmā devatā | aśocyā nanV aśocas tvaṃ prajñāvādāṃś ca bhāṣaseti vījaṃ || ...
f. 3v:
dhyānāvasthitatadgatena manasā paśyaṃti yaṃ yogino (
yasyāt taṃ na viduḥ surāsuragaṇā devāya tasmai namaḥ ||9|| iti nyāsaḥ ||
f. 3v:
dhṛtarāṣṭra uvāca || dharmmakṣetre ...
(MBh. 06.023.001, numbered 1)
f. 70v:
... nīti matir mama |78||
(Mbh. 06.040.078)
f. 71r:
iti śrībhagavadgītāsūpaniṣatsu vrahmavidyāyāṃ yogaśāstre śrīkṛṣṇārjjunasaṃvāde mokṣasanyāsayogo nāmāṣṭadaśo dhyāyaḥ ||18|| ṣamvat ||1872|| śāke ||1737|| pauṣe māse śuklapa{was: pe}kṣe tithau ||8|| ravivāsare || idaṃ pustakaṃ paṭanārthaṃ śrībhaktimūrttiśrīvaiṣṇavakraṣṇadāsajī || maṃgalaṃ dadāt || liṣyataṃ paṃ śrītivārīkaliyānasāha | muḥ nagaralidhauraha madhye
Record revised:???date mo.??? 2010