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[Bhagavadgītā], [18--].
[भगवद्गीता]

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Format:
Manuscript
Standardized Title:
Bhagavadgītā.
भगवद्गीता.
Language:
Sanskrit
Genre:
Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
Manuscripts.
Physical Description:
1 item (59 leaves) : paper ; 10.1 x 16 cm
Contained In:
Collection of Indic Manuscripts. Item 773
Place of Publication:
[18--].
Language Note:
In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī).
Notes:
Ends in verse 29 adhyāya 6. Colophons and introduction of speakers are either in gold lettering outlined by red, or in red. Double daṇḍas are in red. The third and fourth sides of text are surrounded with ornamental devices in gold, purple, and red, and the lines alternate red, gold, black; gold red, black; and black red, gold; black, gold, red. The first and second sides have only three lines per side in red, gold, black and black, gold, and red respectively, and are surrounded by the same ornamental device which is here bordered in black, and surrounded by an ornamental device in tan, gold, and orange on a background of blue and gold with black, gold, and red lines bordering it. Mistakes are covered over with yellow. Orange powder is rubbed in over numbers through folio 10.
Written in 6 lines per leaf.
Non-Latin script record.
Cited in:
Listed in H. I. Poleman, Census of Indic Manuscripts in the United States and Canada (New Haven, Conn.: American Oriental Society, 1938), Poleman 948 (UP 773).
Cited as:
UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 773
OCLC:
421070515

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