Manuscript Identifiers

Collection:UPenn Ms. Coll. 390
Item:2368
Repository:Rare Book & Manuscript Library
Institution:University of Pennsylvania
Location:Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Catalog:Poleman
Item:979

Contents

Work 1

Locus:ff. 1v (complete)
Part:bhagavadgītā with the commentary of ḥanumat

   Work 1.1

   Locus:ff. 1v-??? (complete)
   Author:hanumat
   Cover rubric:śrīmadbhagavadgita[XXXX] bhaṣyasya hanumadracitasya prarambho yam
   Incipit: f. 1v:
asya śāstrasya saṃbaṃdhābhidheyaprayojanāny udhyaṃ te tāni ca gītāśāstra pratipāditāt paramātmasaṃbodhāṃ veti paramātmasvarūpam abhidheyaṃ paramātmanaḥ śāstrasya sādhyasādhanalakṣaṇasaṃbaṃdha iti viśiṣṭasaṃbaṃdhābhidheyaprayojanaṃ yatanmokṣaṇva ...
   Final rubric:iti śrīmadbhagavadgītābhāśe hanumadiracite aṣṭādaśodhyāyaḥ ||18||
   Colophon: idaṃ pustakaṃ agastyeṇalikhitaṃ || ... janārdanakoṃidevagādragiḷṛayāṃ cepustaka ||

   Work 1.2

   Locus:ff. ???-62v (complete)
   Author:kṛṣṇa dvaipāyana vyāsa
   Title:mahābhārata
   Part:bhagavadgītā
   Incipit: ???:
aśocyān anvaśocas tvaṃ prajāvādāṃ..
(BhG. 2.11)
(MBh.6.24.11)
   Explicit:... f. 62v ll. 9-10:
(MBh. 6.40.78)

Physical description

Form:folia
Material:paper
Extent:63
Dimension:12.3 x 31.9 cm
Foliation: formula: 1-63
Condition:very good- excellent, though hand writting is not great
Layout:10-16 {17 lines on fol. 31v - bf}

Commentary and zlokas run into each other; contiuous. Zlokas are not numbered, but are marked by two sets of double daNDas on either end of zloka. There was likely meant to have numbers inserted later, but scribe did not finish. Began at number "3" on 2r ll.6-7 and only got as far as number "7" on f.2v l.8 -- but these numbers to not align with the Bhagavad Gita at all. The double daNDas end on f. 31r, but spaces are included where daNDas should be written. At fol. 40v, scribe begins to write a single faint red daNDa to indicated the mUla. This continues to the end.

Hands

Additions:

Mistakes covered over with yellow, blocked out with black. or infrequently only, written over. Marginal corrections.

Decoration

Color:Some mistakes covered over with yellow

History

Origin:Agastya "not given"
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

aDyaya 24:
Commentary:
śrīmadbhagavadgita[XXXX] bhaṣyasya hanumadracitasya prarambho yam
f. 1v:
śrīmahāgaṇapataye namaḥ || śrīkṛṣṇāya namaḥ || oṃm || asya śāstrasya saṃbaṃdhābhidheyaprayojanāny udhyaṃ te tāni ca gītāśāstra pratipāditāt paramātmasaṃbodhāṃ veti paramātmasvarūpam abhidheyaṃ paramātmanaḥ śāstrasya sādhyasādhanalakṣaṇasaṃbaṃdha iti viśiṣṭasaṃbaṃdhābhidheyaprayojanaṃ yatanmokṣaṇva ...
aśocyān anvaśocas tvaṃ prajāvādāṃ..
(BhG. 2.11)
(MBh.6.24.11) aDyaya 40:
Commentary:
...iti śrīmadbhagavadgītābhāśe hanumadiracite aṣṭādaśodhyāyaḥ ||18|| hariḥ oṃ bhubham astu | śrīgurubhyonamaḥ | śrīkṛṣṇasya pādāraviṃdayor acaṃcalābhaktiprasādasiddhir astu || || ca || ca || ca || ca || ca || idaṃ pustakaṃ agastyeṇalikhitaṃ || kāZīviśveśvarārpaṇam astu || visargabiṃdumātrāṇi padapādākṣarāṇi ca |
nyūnāni cātiriktāni kṣamasva parameśvara |
yad akṣarapadabhraṣṭaṃ mātrāhīnaṃ tu yad bhavet |
tat sarvaṃ kṣamyatāṃ deva nārāyaṇa namo stute ||1|| ca || ca || janārdanakoṃidevagādragiḷṛayāṃ cepustaka || śrīmahādevāya namaḥ || śrī śamacaṃdrāya namaḥ || || śrīvāsudeva
Record revised:September 2010