Manuscript Identifiers

Collection:UPenn Ms. Coll. 390
Item:2202
Repository:Rare Book & Manuscript Library
Institution:University of Pennsylvania
Location:Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Catalog:Poleman
Item:980
Catalog:Poleman
Item:985

Contents

Work 1 (complete)

Locus:ff. 1r–3v
Author:Kṛṣṇa Dvaipāyana Vyāsa
Title:Aṣṭādaśaślokīgītā
Rubric: f. 1r
atha aṣṭā<da>śaślokigītāprāraṁbhaḥ .. ..
Incipit: f. 1r
arjuna uvāca
na kāṁkṣe vijayaṁ kṛṣṇa na ca rājyaṁ sukhāni ca ..
kin no rājyena govi<n>da kiṁ bhogair jīvitena vā ..1.. ( BhG. 1.32= MBh. 6.23.32 ) (Anuṣṭubh)
Explicit: f. 3r
saṁjaya0
yatra yogīśvaraḥ kṛṣṇo yatra pārtho dhanurdharaḥ ..
tatra śrīr vijayo bhūtir dhruvā nī[i]tir matir mama ..19.. ( BhG. 1.1= MBh. 6.40.78 ) (Anuṣṭubh)
Final rubric: f. 3rf. 3v
iti śrīmatbhagavatgītāsūpaniṣatsu brahmavidyāyāṁ yogaśāstre śrīkṛṣṇārju nasaṁvāde aṣṭādaśaślokī gītā sā[[?]]ra samāptaḥ ..
Colophon:none
Note:The Aṣṭādaśaślokīgītā, also known as the Gītāsāra, consists of a selection of eighteen verses from the Bhagavadgītā plus the final phalaśruti verse of the Bhagavadgītā. All nineteen verses are included in the text of the critical edition of the Mahābhārata at MBh. BhG. 1.32, MBh. 6.23.32 ; BhG. 2.20, MBh. 6.24.20 ; BhG. 3.28, MBh. 6.25.28 ; BhG. 4.24, MBh. 6.26.24 ; BhG. 5.18, MBh. 6.27.18 ; BhG. 6.25, MBh. 6.28.25 ; BhG. 7.4, MBh. 6.29.4 ; BhG. 8.13, MBh. 6.30.13 ; BhG. 9.22, MBh. 6.31.22 ; BhG. 10.42, MBh. 6.32.42 ; BhG. 11.36, MBh. 6.33.36 (including the speaker line introducing it) ; BhG. 12.16, MBh. 6.34.16 ; BhG. 13.32, MBh. 6.35.32 ; BhG. 14.22, MBh. 6.36.22 ; BhG. 15.14, MBh. 6.37.14 ; BhG. 16.23, MBh. 6.38.23 ; BhG. 17.15, MBh. 6.39.15 ; BhG. 18.73, MBh. 6.40.73 (including the speaker line introducing it) ; BhG. 18.74, MBh. the speaker line introducing 6.40.74 BhG. 18.78, MBh. 6.40.78 .
Language:Sanskrit in Devanāgarī script

Work 2 (complete)

Locus:ff. 3v–4v
Author:Kṛṣṇa Dvaipāyana Vyāsa
Title:Saptaślokīgītā
Incipit: f. 3v
kavim om iti ca sthānesarvataś cordhvam ity api ..
sarvasya manmanā veti ślokāḥ sapta prakīrtitāḥ ..1.. (Anuṣṭubh)
śrī <bha>gavān u0
kaviṁ purāṇam anuśāsitāram
aṇor aṇīyāṁsam anusmared yaḥ ..
sarvasya dhātāram acintyarūpa!ṁ!m
ādityavarṇaṁ tamasaḥ parastāt ..2.. ( BhG. 8.9= MBh. 6.30.9 ) (Triṣṭubh)
<...>
Explicit: f. 4v
manmanā bhava madbhakto madyājī māṁ namaskuru ..
mām evaiṣyasi yuktvaivam ātmānaṁ matparāyaṇaḥ ..8.. ( BhG. 1.32= MBh. 6.31.34 ) (Anuṣṭubh)
Final rubric: f. 4v
iti0 saptaślokī gītā samāptaḥ .. ..
Colophon: f. 4v
saṁvat 1887 plavanāmasaṁvatsare pauṣaśuddha 2
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 introductory verse and the final phalaśruti verse.

Language:Sanskrit in Devanāgarī script

Physical description

Form:Folia
Material:Country-made paper
Extent:4 folia
Dimension:10.3 x 15.4 cm (h x w)
Foliation: Foliated in the upper left and lower right margins on the verso of each folio 1-3 and in the upper left margin on f. 4v .
   Formula:1–4
   Signatures:gī0 a0 appears above the folio number in the upper left margin on the verso of each folio, and rām appears above the number in the lower right margin on the verso of each folio 1–-3.
Collation: Single folia
Condition:Very good condition.
Binding: Unbound
Layout:Written in 9 lines per page.

Hands

Hand 1:Clearly writtenakṣaras.
Additions:

There are no additions nor marginal corrections. On f. 2v and f. 3v corrections are made by blotting characters out with black ink.

Decoration

Border:Vertical double red lines rule the left and right margins of the text on each page.

History

Origin:The colophon states that the manuscript was completed on the 2nd tithi of the bright fortnight in the month of pauṣa in the year 1887, called plava, of the saṁvat era, which corresponds with Friday, 17 December 1830 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:Manuscripts, Sanskrit – 19th century.
SubjectLC:Manuscripts – India – 19th century.
SubjectSL:Mahābhārata

Record history

Revised: 23 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  
f. 3v, f. 4r     f. 3v  f. 4r  

Facsimile  (work 2)

Whole image     Individual pages
f. 3v, f. 4r     f. 3v  f. 4r  
f. 4v     f. 4v  


Transcription (text structure)


Work 1:
śrīgaṇeśāya namaḥ ..

atha aṣṭā<da>śaślokigītāprāraṁbhaḥ .. ..
arjuna uvāca
na kāṁkṣe vijayaṁ kṛṣṇa na ca rājyaṁ sukhāni ca ..
kin no rājyena govi<n>da kiṁ bhogair jīvitena vā ..1.. ( BhG. 1.32= MBh. 6.23.32 ) (Anuṣṭubh)
<...>
<...>
saṁjaya0
yatra yogīśvaraḥ kṛṣṇo yatra pārtho dhanurdharaḥ ..
tatra śrīr vijayo bhūtir dhruvā nī[i]tir matir mama ..19.. ( BhG. 1.1= MBh. 6.40.78 ) (Anuṣṭubh)
hariḥõ tat sad
iti śrīmatbhagavatgītāsūpaniṣatsu brahmavidyāyāṁ yogaśāstre śrīkṛṣṇārju nasaṁvāde aṣṭādaśaślokī gītā sā[[?]]ra samāptaḥ ..
.. śrīkṛṣṇārpaṇam astu .. ..

Work 2:
śrīgaṇeśāya namaḥ ..
kavim om iti ca sthānesarvataś cordhvam ity api ..
sarvasya manmanā veti ślokāḥ sapta prakīrtitāḥ ..1.. (Anuṣṭubh)
śrī <bha>gavān u0
kaviṁ purāṇam anuśāsitāram
aṇor aṇīyāṁsam anusmared yaḥ ..
sarvasya dhātāram acintyarūpa!ṁ!m
ādityavarṇaṁ tamasaḥ parastāt ..2.. ( BhG. 8.9= MBh. 6.30.9 ) (Triṣṭubh)
<...>
<...>
<...>
manmanā bhava madbhakto madyājī māṁ namaskuru ..
mām evaiṣyasi yuktvaivam ātmānaṁ matparāyaṇaḥ ..8.. ( BhG. 1.32= MBh. 6.31.34 ) (Anuṣṭubh)
yo māṁ gītāsamuhyena stotum ichati pā<ṁ>ḍava ..
tenāhaṁ saptabhi<ḥ> ślok!e!<ai><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 )
hariḥ õ tat sad
iti0 saptaślokī gītā samāptaḥ .. ..
śrī ..
saṁvat 1887 plavanāmasaṁvatsare pauṣaśuddha 2