Collection: | Indic Manuscripts |
Item: | 49 |
Repository: | John Hay Library |
Institution: | Brown University |
Location: | Providence, Rhode Island, United States of America |
Catalog: | Poleman |
Item: | 809 |
Locus: | f. 1r–f. 212r (incomplete) |
Author: | Tikkanasomayāji |
Title: | Mahābhārata |
Part: | parvan 8–9 |
Colophon: | None |
Note: | The manuscript contains the Karṇaparvan and Śalyaparvan of the Āndhramahābhāratamu, the Telugu version of the Mahābhārata composed by the Telugu poets Nannaya, Tikkanasomayāji, and Erārpragaḍa. |
Language: | Telugu in Telugu script |
Locus: | f. 1r–f. 121v (incomplete) |
Part: | Karṅa Parvamu |
Incipit: |
f. 1r, line1: śrī pariṇamasdhitivi . dyāpārīṅatvakāritānira . tāpāṁggaparamanaiṣṭikatvā . vyāpānuparānuraktahariharanādhā .. |
Explicit: |
f. 121v, line 7: ggalavālammulunu . dantavannambbulanaguradhyambbulununddanarathambbunumbūnpiṁcciyārohaṇambusensi . karadīpakau sahasrambbulu veluṁga . samastabandhu |
Final rubric: | none |
Colophon: | none |
Locus: | f. 123r–f. 212r (complete) |
Part: | Śalya Parvamu |
Incipit: |
f. 123r: śrīgirijāsadupāyamahā gurutāsubhagasaṁppadāmcci sadā . yogijanakṣemānajā . hārgabhitīdivyacittahariharanāthā .. ka.. devājanamejayathā . trīvallabhuḍutsukatvarekhāśrulīlāvilasituḍai iṭlanu . |
Explicit: |
f. 212r, line xxxxx:
.. mālini ..
bharitavidasamāṁttaḥpadmaniśreṅikāsaṁ .
caraṅapariṅatatvaślākhaniyyakramodyā .
marudu
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Final rubric: |
f. 212r, line xxxxx: idiśrīmadubhayakoṁmmanāmatyaputrabudhārādhanavirājitikkanasomayājipraṇītaṁbbainaśalyaparvaṁbbunaṁddusarvaṁbbunudvitiyyāśvāsamū .. |
Colophon: | none |
Form: | Folia |
Material: | Palm leaf. |
Extent: | 215 |
Dimension: | 3 x 39.7 cm |
Collation: | Single leaves. |
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 create lacunae and loss of folio structural integrity. |
Binding: | Bound between wooden covers with cord. Condition: The binding is in good condition.. |
Layout: | Written in 6–7 lines per page. |
Hand 1: | xxxxx |
Additions: |
In the left margin on f. 1r is written the following:
“śrīrāmā
In the left margin on f. 83r is written the following:
“śrīrāma
In the left margin on f. 123r is written the following:
“śubhamastu
In the left margin on f. 162r is written the following:
“śubhamastu
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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, Telugu |
SubjectLC: | Manuscripts – India – 18th century |
SubjectSL: | Mahābhārata |
Line 1: śrī pariṇamasdhitivi . dyāpārīṅatvakāritānira . tāpāṁggaparamanaiṣṭikatvā . vyāpānuparānuraktahariharanādhā ..
ggalavālammulunu . dantavannambbulanaguradhyambbulununddanarathambbunumbūnpiṁcciyārohaṇambusensi . karadīpakau sahasrambbulu veluṁga . samastabandhu
śrīgirijāsadupāyamahā gurutāsubhagasaṁppadāmcci sadā . yogijanakṣemānajā . hārgabhitīdivyacittahariharanāthā .. ka.. devājanamejayathā . trīvallabhuḍutsukatvarekhāśrulīlāvilasituḍai iṭlanu .
Line xxxxx:
.. mālini ..
bharitavidasamāṁttaḥpadmaniśreṅikāsaṁ .
caraṅapariṅatatvaślākhaniyyakramodyā .
marudu
Line xxxxx: pagamalīlāmadhyapūrṅneṁddubiṁbbā .
kṣaradamṛtavikārotsāranānaṁddarūpā ..
Record revised: | 29 January 2011 |
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