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Title

Bhagavadgītā
भगवद्गीता

Call number

Ms. Coll. 390 Item 551
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9959880993503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/854768057
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/5988099

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

In Sanskrit

Summary

Manuscript used for public or private recitation and prayer, the main part of which is a full copy of the Bhagavadgītā, a section of the epic Mahābhārata that commonly circulated as an independent text. Text presents the dialogue between the Hindu deity Kṛṣṇa and the epic hero Arjuna at the moment before the two family clans, the Kauravas and the Pāṇḍavas, begin to battle. The first section of the manuscript (Part 1, f. 1-2) is a short praise of the greatness (māhātmya) of the Gītā (Bhagavadgītā) from the Varāhapurāṇa and the final part of the manuscript (Part 3, f. 1r) is a praise (stotra) of the goddess Lakṣmī from the Agnipurāṇa. Part 3 appears to be in a different hand although the title on the verso (Part 3, f. 1v) is in the same hand as the rest of the manuscript.

Notes

• Title from back title page (Part 3, f. 1v); section title Gītāmāhātmya from internal colophon (Part 1, f. 2v).
   
• Written in 11-12 lines per leaf.
   
• 45 leaves foliated (Part 1:) 1-2; (Part 2:) 1-42; (Part 3:) [1], upper left and lower right verso.
   
• Colophon (Part 2:) iti śrī madbhagavadgītāsūpani[ṣad] saṃnyāsayogonāmāṣṭādaśo 'dhyātyaḥ // 18 // śrīkṛṣṇārpaṇam astu // (f. 42v).
   
• Mistakes blacked out; significant syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red throughout; vertical margins marked with double gray line.
   

Extent

1 item (45 leaves) : 17 x 21 cm

Support

Paper

Colophon

Colophon (Part 2:) iti śrī madbhagavadgītāsūpani[ṣad] saṃnyāsayogonāmāṣṭādaśo 'dhyātyaḥ // 18 // śrīkṛṣṇārpaṇam astu // (f. 42v).

Subjects topical

• Hindu mythology
• Krishna (Hindu deity)
• Lakshmi (Hindu deity)
• War--Religious aspects--Hinduism

Genres

• Poems
• Prayers
• Hymns
• Dialogues
• Manuscripts, Sanskrit--18th century
• Manuscripts, Sanskrit--19th century
• Manuscripts--India--18th century
• Manuscripts--India--19th century

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