Cluster 0377 — Adhyāya-10 Dnyāneśvarī Self-Naming Colophon

Sanskrit

॥ इति श्रीज्ञानदेवविरचितायां भावार्थदीपिकायां दशमोऽध्यायः ॥

Translation

Thus the tenth chapter, in the Bhāvārtha-Dīpikā (Light-on-the-Inner-Meaning) composed by the blessed Jñānadeva.

Function

The seventh self-naming colophon in the corpus. The pattern joins the chapter-2, chapter-4, chapter-5, chapter-6, chapter-7, and chapter-8 colophons (clusters 0098, 0183, 0210, 0252, 0279, 0305) — each carrying the formula iti śrī-jñānadeva-viracitāyām bhāvārtha-dīpikāyām N-mo'dhyāyaḥ. Adhyāya-10 — the vibhūti-yoga chapter — closes here. The Bhagavad-Gītā's own canonical chapter-colophon (Om tat sad iti . . . vibhūti-yogo nāma daśamo'dhyāyaḥ) sits at the close of cluster 0376's terminal-block, embedded after BG-10.42. This 0377 colophon is the Dnyāneśvarī's own self-naming layer on top of the BG-canonical-colophon — Jñāneśvar's signature that the Marathi commentary-work has also closed its tenth chapter.

Adhyāya-10 is structurally pivotal in the Gītā's 18-chapter architecture: it closes the second hexad (chapters 7-12 forming the bhakti-and-cosmic-form middle-block) before the visionary hinge of chapter-11's viśva-rūpa-darśana. The chapter's 42-śloka vibhūti catalogue — the Gītā's most expansive enumeration of Kṛṣṇa's manifestations across the cosmic, biological, scriptural, and political registers — culminates in BG-10.42's viṣṭabhya-aham idam kṛtsnam eka-amśena sthito jagat (with a single fraction I stand pervading this whole cosmos). The colophon arrives precisely at the doctrinal pivot where vibhūti-enumeration collapses into eka-amśa declaration, and where the bhakta's abheda-acceptance (Arjuna's response in 0376's closing ovis: भेदु जी साच — पळे — तो तूं परब्रह्मचि असकें) prepares the ground for the cosmic-form vision that opens adhyāya-11. The self-naming signature is theologically apt at this chapter's close — adhyāya-10 completes a major doctrinal arc, and the Dnyāneśvarī marks it as such.