Manuscript Identifiers

Collection:UPenn Ms. Coll. 390
Item:559
Repository:Rare Book & Manuscript Library
Institution:University of Pennsylvania
Location:Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Catalog:Poleman
Item:947

Contents

Work 1

Locus:ff. 1v-4r (complete)
Author:kṛṣṇa dvaipāyana vyāsa
Title:mahābhārata
Part:bhagavadgītā nyāsa
Incipit: f. 1v:
om asya śrībhagavadgītāmālāmaṃtrasya śrībhagavān vedavyāsa ṛṣiḥ
anuṣṭup chaṃdaḥ ||
śrī kṛṣṇaḥ paramātmā devatā ||
aśocyā nanv aśocas tvaṃ prajñāvādāṃś ca bhāṣaseti vījaṃ ||
sarvadharmān parityajya mām ekaṃ śaraṇaṃ vrajeti śaktiḥ ||
Explicit: ff. 3v-4r:
yaṃ brahmāva
f. 4r:
ruṇeṃdrarudramarutaḥ stunvaṃti divyaiḥ stavair devaiḥ sāṃgapadakramopaniṣadair gāyaṃti yaṃ sāmagāḥ ||
dhyānāvasthitatadgatena manasā paśyaṃti yaṃ yogino yasyāṃtaṃ na viduḥ surāsuragaṇā devāya tasmai namaḥ ||9||
Final rubric: f. 4r:
iti nyāsaḥ ||
Language:Sanskrit in Devanagari script

Work 2

Locus:ff. 4r-90r (complete)
Author:kṛṣṇa dvaipāyana vyāsa
Title:mahābhārata
Part:bhagavadgītā
Incipit: f. 4r:
dhṛtarāṣṭra uvāca || dharmakṣetre ...
(MBh. 06.023.001, numbered 1)
Explicit: f. 90r (foliated on recto): :
... nītir matir mmama ||78||
(Mbh. 06.040.078)
Final rubric: f. 90r (foliated on recto): :
iti śrībhagavadgītāsūpaniṣatsu vrahmavidyāyāṃ yogaśāstre śrīkṛṣṇārjunasaṃvāde mokṣasaṃnyāsayogo nāma 'ṣṭādaśo dhyāyaḥ ||18||
Colophon: f. 90r (foliated on recto): :
saṃvat 1851 maticetasudi 7 dne pūrṇaḥ ||
Language:Sanskrit in Devanagari script

Physical description

Form:fola
Material:paper
Extent:90
Dimension:10.4 x 18.7 cm
Foliation:90 leaves, foliated 1-40, 41a, 41b, {textual continuity all over} 42-51, {textual continuity} 53-90.
formula: 1-40, 41[a], 41[b], 42-51, 53-90.
Condition:Folio 1 slightly mutilated, but still very legible.
Layout:Written in 7 lines per leaf.

Decoration

Color:Invocations, colophons, introduction of speakers and double daṇḍas in red. Mistakes covered over with yellow.

History

Origin: samvat 1851 [= 1794]
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:
||98|| śrīgaṇeśāya namaḥ || om asya śrībhagavadgītāmālāmaṃtrasya śrībhagavān vedavyāsa ṛṣiḥ anuṣṭup chaṃdaḥ || śrī kṛṣṇaḥ paramātmā devatā || aśocyā nanv aśocas tvaṃ prajñāvādāṃś ca bhāṣaseti vījaṃ || sarvadharmān parityajya mām ekaṃ śaraṇaṃ vrajeti śaktiḥ || ...
f. 3v:
yaṃ brahmāva
f. 4r:
ruṇeṃdrarudramarutaḥ stunvaṃti divyaiḥ stavair devaiḥ sāṃgapadakramopaniṣadair gāyaṃti yaṃ sāmagāḥ ||
dhyānāvasthitatadgatena manasā paśyaṃti yaṃ yogino yasyāṃtaṃ na viduḥ surāsuragaṇā devāya tasmai namaḥ ||9|| iti nyāsaḥ || mū:
f. 4r:
dhṛtarāṣṭra uvāca || dharmakṣetre ...
(MBh. 06.023.001, numbered 1)
f. 90r:
... nītir matir mmama ||78||
(Mbh. 06.040.078) iti śrībhagavadgītāsūpaniṣatsu vrahmavidyāyāṃ yogaśāstre śrīkṛṣṇārjunasaṃvāde mokṣasaṃnyāsayogo nāma 'ṣṭādaśo dhyāyaḥ ||18|| saṃvat 1851 maticetasudi 7 dne pūrṇaḥ ||
Record revised:???date mo.??? 2010