Collection: | UPenn Ms. Coll. 390 |
Item: | 2241 |
Repository: | Rare Book & Manuscript Library |
Institution: | University of Pennsylvania |
Location: | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America |
Catalog: | Poleman |
Item: | 969 |
Locus: | ff. [0]r–81v (complete) |
Title: | Bhagavadgītā |
Cover rubric: |
f. [0]r: atha bhagavadgītāprāraṁbhaḥ |
Final rubric: |
f. 81v: .. iti bhagavadgītā samāpto yam .. |
Colophon: | None |
Locus: | ff. [0]v–2v (complete) |
Title: | Bhagavadgītā Preface |
Incipit: |
[0]v: asya śrībhagavadgītāmālāmaṁtrasya .. śrībha gavān vedavyāsaṛṣiḥ .. |
Explicit: |
f. 2r: mūkaṁ karoti vācālaṁ paṁguṁ laṁghayate girīn .. yatkṛpā tam ahaṁ vaṁde paramānaṁdamādhavam Note: BhG. Preface 2.14 |
Final rubric: | none |
Colophon: | None |
Language: | Sanskrit in Devanāgarī script |
Locus: | ff. 2v–78v (complete) |
Author: | Kṛṣṇa Dvaipāyana Vyāsa |
Title: | Bhagavadgītā |
Incipit: |
f. 2v: dhṛtarāṣṭra uvāca .. dharmakṣetre kurukṣetre samavetā yu yutsavaḥ .. māmakāḥ pāṇḍavāś caiva kim akurvata saṁjaya ..1 Note: BhG. 1.1; MBh. 6.23.1 |
Explicit: |
f. 78v: ya tra yogeśvaraḥ kṛṣṇo yatra pārtho dhanurdharaḥ .. tatra śrīr vijayo bhūtir dhruvā nītir ma[ma]tir mama ..78.. Note: BhG. 18.78; MBh. 6.40.78 |
Final rubric: |
f. 78v: iti śrīmadbhagavadgītāsūpaniṣa tsu brahmavidyāyāṁ yogaśāstre śrīkṛṣṇārjunasaṁ vāde mokṣasaṁnyāsayogo nāma aṣṭādaśo dhyāyaḥ 18 |
Colophon: |
f. 79r: śake 1733 prajāpa!tī!<ti> nāma saṁvatsare śrāvaṇa
śukladvitīyā iṁduvāsare idaṁ pustakaṁ lekhanasamāptaṁ |
Language: | Sanskrit in Devanāgarī script |
Locus: | ff. 79v–81r (complete) |
Part: | Bhagavadgītā Āratī |
Incipit: |
f. 79v: sukhakaraṇī duḥkhaharaṇī jananī vedāci .. a gādamahimātūjhā nakaḷeviraṁci .. titubrahmitallina hoti saṭhāṁ īci .. arjunā cābhāgye pragaṭamukhīci .. jaya deva jaya deva jaya devī gīte ārati bobāḷu ārati ā rate jaya deva jaya deva ..1.. |
Explicit: |
f. 81r: gītāsu gītāḥ karttavyāḥ kim anyaiḥ śāstrakoṭibhiḥ yāḥ svayaṁ padmanābhasya mukhapadmād viniḥsṛtā ..1.. |
Final rubric: | none |
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. This manuscript also includes an Arati in Marathi closed with Sanskrit verses on f. 79v–f. 81r. |
Language: | Marāṭhī and Sanskrit in Devanāgarī script |
Form: | Folia |
Material: | European paper with watermarks. The Last two folios, 80–81, are made of country paper without watermarks consisting of thinner stock. |
Watermark: | On f. 5 etc. is found the watermark
(mentioned:
JW HA . . .
TMAN ) and some kind of crest with (mentioned: E) and (mentioned: C) in different parts. Especially on folios 22–23 is visible (mentioned: J Whatman) in small caps. (See http://www.baph.org.uk/watermarks) (mentioned: Turkey Mills) and the date (mentioned: 1808) as on the pair of folios ff. 34–35 (together as unit), and also (mentioned: 1809) on the pair of folios ff. 64–65. |
Extent: | 81 |
Dimension: | 11.9 x 17.7 cm |
Collation: | Single and paired leaves. |
Condition: | Excellent with browned edges. The last two folios have tattered edges. |
Binding: | Unbound. |
Layout: | Written in 9–10 lines per page. |
Hand 1: | Written in clear, regular characters tilted forward in straight lines. Sometimes uses Marathi l, e.g. f. 1r, line 7, but contrast f. 2r bottom line, left. Spells oṁ instead of using special sign. |
Additions: |
Mistakes are covered over with yellow. |
Color: | The final rubric and double daṇḍas are written in red. Mistakes are covered over with yellow. Orange powder is rubbed over invocations, colophons, and introductions of speakers, in some cases, such as on f. 78v, over every other syllable. |
Border: | Two sets of vertical double red lines rule the left and right margins of the text on each page. A rectangular frame in red appears on f. [0]r. |
Origin: | The colophon states that the manuscript was completed on Monday, on the 2nd tithi of the bright fortnight in the month of śrāvaṇa in the year 1733, called prajāpati, of the śaka era, which corresponds to 22 July 1811 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 – 18th century. |
SubjectLC: | Manuscripts – India – 18th century. |
SubjectSL: | Mahābhārata |
Whole image | Individual pages |
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f. [0]v,f. 1r | f. [0]v f. 1r |
f. 1v,f. 2r | f. 1v f. 2r |
f. 2v,f. 3r | f. 2v f. 3r |
Whole image | Individual pages |
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f. 79v,f. 80r | f. 79v f. 80r |
f. 80v,f. 81r | f. 80v f. 81r |
asya śrībhagavadgītāmālāmaṁtrasya .. śrībha
Line 3: gavān vedavyāsaṛṣiḥ ..
anuṣṭup chaṁdaḥ ..
śrīkṛṣṇa paramā
Line 4: tmā devatā ..
kva cit kānī cin nānāchaṁdāṁsi ..
aśocyā
Line 5: n anvaśocas tvaṁ prajñāvādāṁś ca bhāṣaseti bījaṁ ..
[
śrīrāma jaya rāma jaya jaya rāma .. [
śrīrāmacaṁdra
gītāsu gītāḥ karttavyāḥ kim anyaiḥ śāstrakoṭibhiḥ yāḥ svayaṁ padmanābhasya mukhapadmād viniḥsṛtā ..1.... śrīkṛṣṇacaraṇāraviṁdārpaṇam astu .. ca .. ca .. śrī ..
Record revised: | 9 February 2012 |
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