Manuscript Identifiers

Collection:UPenn Ms. Coll. 390
Item:2340
Repository:Rare Book & Manuscript Library
Institution:University of Pennsylvania
Location:Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Catalog:Poleman
Item:957

Contents

Work 1

Locus:ff. 1v-5r (complete)
Incipit: f. 1v:
asya śrībhagavadgītā mālāmaṃtrasya || śrībhagavānvedavyāsa ṛṣiḥ || ...
Explicit: f. 5r l. 5:
... dhyānāvasthitatadgatena manasā paśayaṃti yaṃ yogino
yasyāṃtaṃ na viduḥ surāsuragaṇā devāya tasmai namaḥ ||32||
Language:Sanskrit in Devanagari script

Work 2

Locus:ff. 5r-102 (complete)
Author:kṛṣṇa dvaipāyana vyāsa
Title:mahābhārata
Part:bhagavadgītā
Incipit: f. 5r l. 5:
dhṛtarāṣṭra uvāca || dharmakṣetre ...
(BhG. 1.1)
Explicit: ff. 101-102:
...
(BhG. 18.78)
Final rubric: ff. 101-102:
iti śrīmadbhagavadgītāsūpaniṣatsu brahmavidyāyāṃ yogaśāstre śrīkṛṣṇārjunasaṃvāde mokṣasaṃnyāsayogonāmāṣṭādaśodhyāyaḥ || 18 ||
Colophon: f. 102:
śake 1765 śobhakṛn nāmasaṃvatsare śrāvaṇaśuklapūrṇimāyāṃ tithau guruvāsare idaṃ pustakaṃ samāptim agamat ||
Language:Sanskrit in Devanagari script

Physical description

Form:folia
Material:european paper with water marks
Watermark:watermarks, hard to see, a kind of crest with an animal inside. paper is thick. date of 1829 can be read on fol. 72 and 73, 80. The water marked crest appears to leave an indent and can be seen without the help of the light panel; though faint.
Extent:102
Dimension:10 x 15.3 cm
Foliation: formula: 1-102
Condition:excellent; some folios brittle

Decoration

Color:double daNDas in red. Mistakes covered over with yellow.

History

Origin:"not given" zaka 1765 [=1843]
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.
SubjectLC:Manuscripts, Sanskrit -- 18th century.
SubjectLC:Manuscripts -- India -- 18th century.

Facsimile

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Transcription

nyAsa :
f. 1v:
śrīgaṇeśāyanamaḥ || asya śrībhagavadgītā mālāmaṃtrasya || śrībhagavānvedavyāsa ṛṣiḥ || ...
f. 5r:
... dhyānāvasthitatadgatena manasā paśayaṃti yaṃ yogino
yasyāṃtaṃ na viduḥ surāsuragaṇā devāya tasmai namaḥ ||32|| mū:
f. 5r:
dhṛtarāṣṭra uvāca || dharmakṣetre ...
(BhG. 1.1)
f. 101:
(BhG. 18.78) oṃ tatsad iti śrīmadbhagavadgītāsūpaniṣatsu brahmavidyāyāṃ yogaśāstre śrīkṛṣṇārjunasaṃvāde mokṣasaṃnyāsayogonāmāṣṭādaśodhyāyaḥ ||18|| śrīkṛṣṇārpaṇam astu śake 1765 śobhakṛn nāmasaṃvatsare śrāvaṇaśuklapūrṇimāyāṃ tithau guruvāsare idaṃ pustakaṃ samāptim agamat || śubhaṃ bhavatu || || ca || || ca || || ca || || ca || ca ||
Record revised:September 2010