Collection: | Indic Manuscripts |
Item: | 35 |
Repository: | John Hay Library |
Institution: | Brown University |
Location: | Providence, Rhode Island, United States of America |
Catalog: | Poleman |
Item: | 830 |
Locus: | ff. 1r–109v | ||
Author: | Kṛṣṇa Dvaipāyana Vyāsa | ||
Title: | Mahābhārata | ||
Part: | Bhīṣmaparvan | ||
Cover rubric: |
front cover
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Incipit: |
f. 1r
janamejayaḥ .. kathaṁ yuyudhire vīrāḥ kurupāṇḍavasomakāḥ . pārthivāś ca mahātmano nānādeśasamāgatāḥ (Anuṣṭubh) ( MBh. 6.1.1 ) | ||
Explicit: |
f. 109r, lines 1–2
ityu bruvantaṁ gāṅgeyam abhivādya prasādya ca . rādheyo ratham āruhya prāyāt tava sutaṁ prati . ( MBh. 6.117.34 ) (Anuṣṭubh) vaiśaṁpaiyanaḥ . bhīṣmaparvaṇi rājeṁdrakathāṁte kurunandana . brāhmaṇan pūjayed bhyaktyā vastrālaṁkārabhojanaiḥ . (Anuṣṭubh) vaktāraṁ pūjayed bhaktyā vastrālaṁkarādibhiḥ saphalaṁ syāt tacchravaṇaṁ bhagavān modate bhṛśaṁ . (Anuṣṭubh) | ||
Final rubric: |
f. 109r, lines 2–3
iti śrībhīṣmaparvaṇi śrīmahābhārate śatasahasrikāyāṁ saṁhitāyāṁ vaiyāsikyāṁ śrībhīṣmaparvaṇi bhīṣmakarṇasaṁvādo nāma ṣoḍaśottaraśatatamo dhyāyaḥ . | ||
Colophon: |
f. 109r, lines 3–5
karakṛtam aparādhaṁ kṣanttum arhantti santtaḥ .. suvarnnaṁ veṁkkaṭācalayyagāri bhīṣmaparvaṇi samāptaṁ .. <...> jñānānandamayaṁ devaṁ nirmalasphaṭisākṛtiṁ . ādhāraṁ sarvavidyānāṁ hayagrivam upāsmahe .. (Anuṣṭubh) | ||
Language: | Sanskrit in Telugu script |
Form: | Folia |
Material: | Palm leaf |
Extent: | 109 folia |
Dimension: | 5 x 48.5 cm (h x w) |
Foliation: | Foliated in the left margin on the recto of each folio. Folio 14, containing verses corresponding to MBh. 6.21.6a–6.41.10c , is missing. Text for one folio is written on two palm leaves which must have been stuck together at the time of writing: f. 90[a]r is filled with text while f. 90[a]v is blank; f. 90[b]r is blank while f. 90[b]v is filled with text. |
Formula: | 1–13, 15–90[a], 90[b], 91–109 |
Collation: | Single folia |
Condition: | Good condition; browned leaves; minimal fraying at the edges; a few cracked and split leaves that don't interfere with legibility; minimal worm holes; some loss of text due to water damage and mold. |
Binding: | Bound between wooden covers by means of cord and a metal peg inserted through two holes. |
Condition: | The binding is in good condition. |
Layout: | Written in 11–12 lines per page. |
Hand 1: | xxxxx |
Additions: |
Marginal corrections are numerous. Several folios mark an apahāra 'taking away'. Is not clear to what this term refers. On f. 41v is written in the left margin the following: dvitīyāpahāraḥ On f. 47v is written in the left margin the following: tritīyyāpahāraḥ On f. 52v is written in the left margin the following: caturthāpahāraḥ On f. 64r is written in the left margin the following: ṣaṣṭāpahāraḥ |
Illustration: | Flowers in left margins mark the line in which a final rubric occurs. |
Origin: | The colophon on f. 109r, lines 3–4 mentions suvarnaṁ veṁkkaṭācalayya. |
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. |
SubjectLC: | Mahābhārata |
SubjectLC: | Manuscripts, Sanskrit – 18th century |
SubjectLC: | Manuscripts – India – 18th century |
SubjectSL: | Mahābhārata |
Sanscrit Mahabharata.
6. Bheeshma Parvam |
saṁskṛtamahābhāratamu
6. bhīṣmaparvamu |