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 |
Locus: | ff. 1r–71v (incomplete) |
Title: | Bhagavadgītā |
Cover rubric: |
f. 1r: .. atha śrībhagavadgītāpustakaṁ .. .. |
Final rubric: |
f. 71v:
.. iti śrībhagavadgītā pustakaṁ ..
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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 |
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 |
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 |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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. ” |
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 |
asya śrībhagavadgītāmālāmaṁtra
Line 2: sya bhagavān vedavyāsa ṛṣir anuṣṭupchaṁdaḥ ..
śrī kṛṣṇaḥ paramātmā devatā .
Line 3:
aśocyā nanv aśocas tvaṁ prajñāvādāṁś ca bhāṣaseti vījaṁ ..
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Record revised: | 10 February 2012 |
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