Bhagavadgītāmāhātmya

This manuscript presents a Sanskrit recension of the *Śrīmad Bhagavadgītā*, one of the most revered philosophical and devotional texts of Hinduism, embedded within the *Mahābhārata* epic. The sample reveals the text's characteristic metrical structure in *anuṣṭubh* meter, accompanied by ritual preliminaries (*mālāmantra*, *karanyāsa*, and *ṣaḍaṅganyāsa*) that frame the scripture as a sacred object of tantric worship. Notable features include the *Gītāmāhātmya* (eulogy of the Gītā) praising the text's salvific power, and the opening of the first chapter (*Arjunaviṣāda-yoga*) with the dialogue between Dhṛtarāṣṭra and Saṃjaya. The orthographic conventions and folio numbering suggest a pre-modern North Indian manuscript tradition, preserving the work's dual function as philosophical treatise and liturgical artifact.