Manuscript Identifiers

Collection:UPenn Ms. Coll. 390
Item:2228
Repository:Rare Book & Manuscript Library
Institution:University of Pennsylvania
Location:Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Catalog:Poleman
Item:986
Catalog:Poleman
Item:1371

Contents

Work 1 (complete)

Locus:ff. 1r–2v
Author:Kṛṣṇa Dvaipāyana Vyāsa
Title:Saptaślokīgītā
Cover rubric: f. 1r
saptaślokigītā
Incipit: f. 1v
śrī[ga]bhagavān uvāca
õm ity ekākṣaraṁ vrahma vyāharan mām anusmaran ..
yaḥ prayāti tyajan dehaṁ sa yāti paramāṁ gatim ..1.. ( BhG. 8.13= MBh. 6.30.13 ) (Anuṣṭubh)
Explicit: f. 2rf. 2v
manmanā bhava madbhakto madyājī māṁ namasku ru .
mām evaiṣyasi satyaṁ te pratijāne priyo si me ..7.. ( BhG. 18.65= MBh. 6.40.65 ) (Anuṣṭubh)
yo māṁ gītā samūhena stotum ichati pāṁḍava ..
so haṁ vai saptabhiḥ ślo[kī](kai)<ḥ> stuta eva na saṁśayaḥ .. (Anuṣṭubh)
Final rubric: f. 2v
śrīkṛṣṇārjunasaṁvāde saptaślokīgītā samāptaḥ ..
Colophon:none
Note:

The Saptaślokīgītā consists of a selection of seven verses from the Bhagavadgītā. Some versions add an introductory verse that gives the pratīkas of the seven verses, and a final phalaśruti verse. The seven core verses from the Bhagavadgītā are included in the text of the critical edition of the Mahābhārata at BhG. 8.9, MBh. 6.30.09 ; BhG. 8.13, MBh. 6.30.13 ; BhG. 11.36, MBh. 6.33.36 ; BhG. 13.13, MBh. 6.35.13 ; BhG. 15.1, MBh. 6.37.1 ; BhG. 15.15, MBh. 6.37.15 ; BhG. 18.65, MBh. 6.40.65 . The introductory and final verses are not included in the critical text or the critical apparatus.

The present manuscript includes the final phalaśruti verse but not the introductory verse.

Language:Sanskrit in Devanāgarī script

Work 2 (complete)

Locus:ff. 2v–3v
Title:Catuḥślokīsaṁhitā
Incipit: f. 2v
śrīśuka uvāca ..
jñānaṁ paramaguhyaṁ me yad vijñānasamanvitaṁ ..
sarahasyaṁ tadaṁgaṁ ca gṛhāṇa gaditaṁ mayā ..1.. ( BhP. 2.9.30 ) (Anuṣṭubh)
Explicit: f. 3v
etan mataṁ samātiṣṭha parameṇa samādhinā ..
bhavān kalpavikalpeṣu na vimuhyati karhi cit ..7.. ( BhP. 2.9.36 ) (Anuṣṭubh)
Final rubric: f. 3v
iti śrī(ma)dbhāgavate mahāpurāṇe catuḥślokīsaṁhitā samāptaḥ ..
Colophon: f. 3v
saṁvat ..1862.. śāke ..1727.. caitre māsi
Note:Although the term catuḥślokī means 'consisting of four verses', the Cataḥślokīsaṁhitā consists of a selection of seven verses from the Bhāgavatapurāṇa included in the text of the 1965 edition of the text at BhP. 2.9.30–36. In UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 2514, it is called Catuḥślokībhāgavata.
Language:Sanskrit in Devanāgarī script

Physical description

Form:Folia
Material:Country-made paper
Extent:3 folia
Dimension:10.9 x 16.7 cm (h x w)
Foliation: Foliated in the upper left and lower right margins on the verso of each folio.
   Formula:1–3
   Signatures:gītā appears above the folio number in the upper left margin on f. 2v, and above the folio number in the lower right margin on f. 1v.
Collation: Single folia
Condition:Good condition with browned leaves. The first folio has frayed edges.
Binding: Unbound
Seal: A circular stamp on the right of f. 1r reads Library University Pennsylvania.
Layout:Written in 7–9 lines per page, except the last, f. 3v, which has 4 lines.

Hands

Additions:

Double daṇḍas are added in grey as is a correction on f. 2v, line 3. The rubric on f. 1r and the signature gītā in the upper left margin on f. 1v and f. 3v were added by a different hand. Erroneous syllables are marked with short perpendicular strokes. A single marginal addition appears on f. 2v, and an interlinear addition on f. 3v.

Decoration

Color:Orange used to highlight invocations, speakers, final rubrics, the colophon, verse numbers, and the margin border.
Border:Vertical double lines, highlighted with orange, rule the left and right margins of the text on each page.

History

Origin:The colophon states that the manuscript was completed in the month of caitra in the year 1862 of the saṁvat era and 1727 of the śaka era, which corresponds with April 1805 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.

Subject headings

SubjectLC:Mahābhārata – Bhagavadgītā.
SubjectLC:Puranas – Bhāgavatapurāṇa – Catuḥślokīsaṃhitā.
SubjectLC:Manuscripts, Sanskrit – 19th century.
SubjectLC:Manuscripts – India – 19th century.
SubjectSL:Mahābhārata

Record history

Revised: 24 February 2012

Facsimile  (work 1)

Whole image     Individual pages
f. 1r     f. 1r  
f. 1v, f. 2r     f. 1v  f. 2r  
f. 2v, f. 3r     f. 2v  f. 3r  

Facsimile  (work 2)

Whole image     Individual pages
f. 2v, f. 3r     f. 2v  f. 3r  
f. 3v     f. 3v  


Transcription (text structure)

saptaślokigītā
śrīgaṇeśāya namaḥ ..
śrī[ga]bhagavān uvāca
õm ity ekākṣaraṁ vrahma vyāharan mām anusmaran ..
yaḥ prayāti tyajan dehaṁ sa yāti paramāṁ gatim ..1.. ( BhG. 8.13= MBh. 6.30.13 ) (Anuṣṭubh)
<...>
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manmanā bhava madbhakto madyājī māṁ namasku ru .
mām evaiṣyasi satyaṁ te pratijāne priyo si me ..7.. ( BhG. 18.65= MBh. 6.40.65 ) (Anuṣṭubh)
yo māṁ gītā samūhena stotum ichati pāṁḍava ..
so haṁ vai saptabhiḥ ślo[kī](kai)<ḥ> stuta eva na saṁśayaḥ .. (Anuṣṭubh) ( The verse is an adaptation of Mbh. 13.135.142*635, lines 3–4 which is identical but for the first quarter: yo māṁ nāmasahasreṇa )
śrīkṛṣṇārjunasaṁvāde saptaślokīgītā samāptaḥ ..

Work 2:
śrīgaṇeśāya namaḥ ..
śrīśuka uvāca ..
jñānaṁ paramaguhyaṁ me yad vijñānasamanvitaṁ ..
sarahasyaṁ tadaṁgaṁ ca gṛhāṇa gaditaṁ mayā ..1.. ( BhP. 2.9.30 ) (Anuṣṭubh)
<...>
<...>
etan mataṁ samātiṣṭha parameṇa samādhinā ..
bhavān kalpavikalpeṣu na vimuhyati karhi cit ..7.. ( BhP. 2.9.36 ) (Anuṣṭubh)
iti śrī(ma)dbhāgavate mahāpurāṇe catuḥślokīsaṁhitā samāptaḥ ..
śubhaṁ bhūyāt ..
saṁvat ..1862.. śāke ..1727.. caitre māsi