Manuscript Identifiers

Collection:Indic Manuscripts
Item:32
Repository:John Hay Library
Institution:Brown University
Location:Providence, Rhode Island, United States of America
Catalog:
Item:824

Work 1 (complete)

Locus:
Author:kfzRa dvEpAyana vyAsa
Title:mahABArata
Part:udyogaparvan
Cover rubric:
Incipit:f.<1r.l1>
Explicit:f.<124v.l12>
Final rubric:f.<124v.l13> iti SrImahABArate SatasadAsrirOyAM saMhitAyAM vEyyASikyAmudyogaparvaRi ps vayudDasannAhodAmadvyattaraSatatamodvAyaH .
Colophon:
Filiation:
Second folio:Don't understand
Signatures:Don't understand
Language:Sanskrit in Telugu script

Physical description

Form:folia
Material:palm leaf
Watermark:
Extent:125
Foliation:There are two sets of numbering, one above the other, starting in the 2nd folio. Both numbering sets are in the left margin, having the same script but different pen. The numbering set in the upper corner of left margin is in a newer ink, and is unetched. The numbering set in the middle of the left margin is in the original hand, and is etched and inked.
[i], 1-124[i], 221-344
Collation:
Condition:Very good condition; browned leaves; minimal fraying at the edges; a few cracked and split leaves that don't interfere with legibility; occassional worm holes that can create lacunae. Completely inked
Binding:

Wooden coversCord and a metal peg through lateral holes

Conditiongood
Accompanying matter:

Hands

Summary:
Hand 1:

The scribe was a devotee of kfzRa and rAma as the closing salutation witnesses: “
SrI kfzRArpaRam astu . SrI rAmAya namaH”f. 124v, line 12

Additions:

note: “
BOmakaH
visvakarmA”written in left marginf. 45r.

note:“
SrIrAma
SrIrAma
SrIrAma”written in left marginf. 53r.

[crossed out text]

“”f. 124r

Decoration

History

Color:
Border:
Illustration:flowers in some left margins
Origin:

“”

Provenance:
Acquisition: (Stuart C. Sherman (1977: 79)) describes the acquisition of the Indic manuscripts in the Brown University Library as follows: “ Indic Manuscripts

A collection of fifty-three codices (not after 1800) in Burmese, Cambodian, Telugu Skandhas, Bengali, and Sinhalese script on palm leaves with lacquered wood covers tied with cords. Subjects include Buddhist canon, Pālī grammar and lexicons, Epics, Dance, Drama, and a treatise on midwifery and diseases of women. Recorded in (A Census of Indic Manuscripts in the United States and Canada, by Horace I. Poleman, New Haven: American Oriental Society, 1938.) Register available.

Gift of Baptist missionaries to Burma, among whom was Adoniram Judson Brown Class of 1807, who first translated the Bible into Burmese.

Subject headings

SubjectLC:Mahābhārata
SubjectLC:Manuscripts, Sanskrit -- 18th century
SubjectLC:Manuscripts -- India -- 18th century
SubjectSL:../TEI_MS/IndicSubjectClassification.xml#mahABarata ()

Facsimile

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Transcription vESaMpAyanaH .
kftvA vivAhaM tu kuru pravIrAHs tadABimanyor muditasvapakzAH [...] (MBh. 5.1.1ab)
[...] vAdayanti sma saMhfzwAH sahasrAyutaSo narAH (MBh. 5.197.21cd)
iti SrImahABArate SatasadAsrirOyAM saMhitAyAM vEyyASikyAmudyogaparvaRi p(?)s vayudDasannAhodAmadvyattaraSatatamodvAyaH .

Changes

PersonDateChange
Matthias AhlbornSeptember 2010In , edited the original encoding.
Peter M. Scharf25 December 2009edited the original encoding .