Collection: | Indic Manuscripts |
Item: | 32 |
Repository: | John Hay Library |
Institution: | Brown University |
Location: | Providence, Rhode Island, United States of America |
Catalog: | Poleman |
Item: | 824 |
Locus: | (upper foliation scheme) from="1" to="124">f. 1-124 (complete) |
Author: | kṛṣṇa dvaipāyana vyāsa |
Title: | mahābhārata |
Part: | udyogaparvan |
Cover rubric: |
left side of cover: Sanscrit Mahabharata. 5. Udyoga Parvam |
Cover rubric: |
right side of cover: saṃskṛtamahābhāratamu 5. udyoga parvamu |
Incipit: |
(upper foliation scheme) f. 1r, line 1: vaiśaṃpāyanaḥ | kṛtvā vivāhaṃ tu kuru pravīrāḥs tadābhimanyor muditasvapakṣāḥ (MBh. 5.1.1ab) |
Explicit: |
(upper foliation scheme) f. 124v, line 12: vādayanti sma saṃhṛṣṭāḥ sahasrāyutaśo narāḥ (MBh. 5.197.21cd) |
Final rubric: |
(upper foliation scheme) f. 124v, line 13: iti śrīmahābhārate śatasadāsrirauyāṃ saṃhitāyāṃ vaiyyāśikyāmu dyogaparvaṇi p[missing: ?]s vayuddhasannāhodāmadvyattaraśatatamodvāyaḥ | |
Colophon: | None |
Language: | Sanskrit in Telugu script |
Form: | folia |
Material: | palm leaf |
Extent: | 125 |
Dimension: | 5.5 x 51 cm |
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.
upper formula: [i], 1-124 |
Foliation: | lower formula: [i], 221-344 |
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 covers
Cord and a metal peg through lateral holes
Condition: good. |
Hand 1: | The scribe was a devotee of kṛṣṇa and rāma as the closing salutation witnesses:
“śrī kṛṣṇārpaṇam astu | śrī rāmāya namaḥ”
(upper foliation scheme) f. 124v, line 12: |
Additions: |
note:
“bhaumakaḥ
note:
“śrīrāma
(upper foliation scheme) f. 124r: |
Illustration: | flowers in some left margins |
Acquisition: |
(Stuart C. Sherman (1977: 79)) describes the acquisition of the Indic manuscripts in the Brown University Library as follows:
Indic ManuscriptsA 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. |
SubjectLC: | Mahābhārata |
SubjectLC: | Manuscripts, Sanskrit -- 18th century |
SubjectLC: | Manuscripts -- India -- 18th century |
Record revised: | 25 December 2009 |
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