Description of University of Pennsylvania Ms. Coll. 390 Item 2638: Gītā mahātama University of Pennsylvania These images and the content of Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts Ms. Coll. 390 Item 2638: Gītā mahātama are free of known copyright restrictions and in the public domain. See the Creative Commons Public Domain Mark page for usage details, http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/. Metadata is © and licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License version 4.0 (CC-BY-4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode. For a description of the terms of use see the Creative Commons Deed https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. Title supplied by cataloger. Written in 8-9 lines per leaf. 104 leaves foliated 1-70 [71-104], upper left recto. Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some minor corrections and additions in margins; significant phrases highlighted in red throughout; vertical margins marked with double red and single black line. Manuscript is bound with string along left edge of manuscript in codex format though written on locally made paper. 3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206. University of Pennsylvania Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts Ms. Coll. 390 Item 2638 9968148993503681 http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/932231447 http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/6814899 Synopsis of the Bhagavadgītā, giving a highlight and celebrating the greatness (māhātmya) of each of the work's 18 chapters, along with lauding the benefits of reading the text. Derived from a larger work, the full Bhagvadagītā giānu, which typically contains the Sanskrit original and Hindi prose paraphrase of the Sanskrit. In Panjabi Gītā mahātama Kiśorīdāsa [71r] for rest of MS after f. 70v, top-right corner damaged

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 1 item (104 leaves) : 12 x 17 cm Hindu mythology Panjabi literature Prayers Poems Manuscripts, Sanskrit--18th century Manuscripts, Sanskrit--19th century Manuscripts--India--18th century Manuscripts--India--19th century