Collection: | UPenn Ms. Coll. 390 |
Item: | 555 |
Repository: | Rare Book & Manuscript Library |
Institution: | University of Pennsylvania |
Location: | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America |
Catalog: | Poleman |
Item: | 961 |
Locus: | ff. 2r–92r |
Author: | Kṛṣṇa Dvaipāyana Vyāsa |
Title: | Bhagavadgītā |
Incipit: |
f. 2r
dhṛtarāṣṭra uvāca dharmakṣetre kurukṣetre samavetā yuyutsavaḥ māmakāḥ pāṁḍavāś caiva kim akurvata saṁjaya 1 (Anuṣṭubh) ( BhG. 1.1= MBh. 6.23.1 ) |
Explicit: |
f. 92r
yatra yogeśvaraḥ kṛṣṇo yatra pārtho dhanurdharaḥ .. tatra śrīr vijayo bhūti<r> dhruvā nīti<r> matir mama ..78.. ( BhG. 18.78= MBh. 6.40.78 ) (Anuṣṭubh) |
Final rubric: |
f. 92r
iti śrībhagavadgītāsūpaniṣatsu0 mokṣasaṁnyāsayogo nāmāṣṭādaśo dhyāyaḥ |
Colophon: | none |
Language: | Sanskrit in Devanāgarī script |
Locus: | ff. 2r–92v |
Author: | Śrīdharasvāmin |
Incipit: |
f. 2r
tatra tāvad dharmakṣetre ityādinā viṣīdan idam abravīd ity aṁtena <...> |
Explicit: |
92v
svapragalbhya valād viloḍya bhagavadgītā tadaṁtargataṁ tatvaṁ prepsur upaiti kiṁ gurukṛpā pīyūṣadṛṣṭiṁ vinā .. aṁbusvāṁ jalinā nirasya jaladher āditsuraṁtarmaṇī .. nāvartteṣu nakiṁ nimajjati janaḥ satkarṇadhāraṁ vinā 3 (Śārdūlavikrīḍita) |
Final rubric: |
92v
iti śrīśrīdharasvāmiviracitāyāṁ bhagavadgītāsubodinyāṁ mokṣasaṁnyāsayogo nāmāṣṭādaśo dhyāyaḥ |
Colophon: | none |
Note: | Although the seven-verse introduction on the missing [[facs=f1v, locus=f. 1v]] is absent, Śrīdhara's comment on the first verse of the Bhagavadgītā begins on the first line of f. 2r. |
Language: | Sanskrit in Devanāgarī script |
Form: | Folia |
Material: | Country-made paper |
Extent: | 91 folia |
Dimension: | 12.7 x 30.4 cm (h x w) |
Foliation: | Foliated in the upper left and lower right margins on the verso of each folio. Folio 1, containing the seven introductory verses of persName śrīdharasvāmin 's commentary, is missing. |
Formula: | 2–92 |
Signatures: | gī0 ṭī0 appears above the folio number in the upper left margin, and rāma0 appears above the folio number in the lower right margin on the verso of each folio. |
Collation: | Single folia |
Condition: | The manuscript is worn and the margins of many leaves are worn off making the numbers illegible. However, most of the text is legible. On f. 2r, f. 2v, and f. 3r the lettering can hardly be read. On f. 92r and f. 92v, though also in poor shape, most of the writing is legible. |
Binding: | Unbound |
Seal: | A circular stamp in blue ink on the lower right of f. 92v reads Library University Pennsylvania. |
Layout: | Written in 11–14 lines per page, 7 on f. 92v, in an hour-glass arrangement with 2-6 lines of base text between 2–5 lines of commentary above and 2–5 lines of commentary below. The text is sometimes continued into the margin. |
Additions: |
Mistakes are covered over with yellow pigment. |
Color: | Mistakes are covered over with yellow pigment. |
Origin: | 17– |
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 – 18th century. |
SubjectLC: | Manuscripts – India – 18th century. |
SubjectSL: | Mahābhārata |