Collection: | Indic Manuscripts |
Item: | 33 |
Repository: | John Hay Library |
Institution: | Brown University |
Location: | Providence, Rhode Island, United States of America |
Catalog: | Poleman |
Item: | 814 |
Locus: | f. 1-216 (complete) |
Author: | kṛṣṇa dvaipāyana vyāsa |
Title: | mahābhārata |
Part: | ādiparvan |
Cover rubric: |
left side of cover: Sanscrit Mahabharata. 1. Audi Parvam |
Cover rubric: |
right side of cover: saṃskṛtamahābhāratamu 1. ādiparvamu |
Incipit: |
f. 1r, line 1: vāgiśāvyās sumanasas sarvārdhānām upakrame | yān natvā kṛtakṛtyā stus taṃ nnamāmi gajānanaṃ | Note: (Ahlborn) Should be: vāgīśādyāḥ sumanasas sarvārthānām upakrame | yaṃ natvā kṛtakṛtyās syus taṃ namāmi gajānanam || pārāśrv|acaḥssarojam amalaṃ nitārdhagaṃdhotkaluṃ nānākhyānakakesaraṃ harikadhāsadbānunābodhitaṃ f. 1r, lines 9-10: ugraśravās sūti paurāṇiko naimiśāraṅye śaunakasya kulapater dvādaśavārṣike satrapravatramane samā | sukhāsinān abhyagacchad brahmarṣin śaṃsitavratān | vinayāvanato bhūtvā kadācit sūtanandanaḥ (MBh. 1.1.2) |
Explicit: |
f. 216v, lines 3-4: vaiśaṃ | evaṃ tau samanujñātau pāvakena mahātmanā | arjuno vāsudevaś ca dānavaś ca mayas tathā | parikramya tataḥ sarve trayo pi bharatarṣabha | ramaṇīye nadīkūle sahitāḥ samupāviśan (MBh. 1.225.18-19) |
Final rubric: |
f. 216v, lines 4-6: brahmaṇakavedavedinaḥ | tāskajayattadāśratā svarṇabharaṇabhūṣaṇaiḥ | varcadvelabrāhmaṇebhyaśrabhājanaṃ canadaśri|ṇaṃśraṇuāditham ādiparvamukhyaṃ tadhādi yaḥ parati viśuddhabuddhiḥ saṃprāpnoti paraṃ sukhaṃ nṛtokenāraṃgatya paramasukhatāṃ prāpnuyād vipramukhyaḥ || iti śrīmahābhārate śatasahasravaiyyāśikyāṃ sahitāyām ādiparvaṇy ekapaṃcrāśaduttaradviśatatamodhyāhaḥ |
Colophon: |
f. 216v, line 7: śrīśrīśrīśrīśrījeyunū || śunu | kṛtā nāma sa || ādinela 20 tedi ādiparvaṃvrā?s risamāptamukarakkatamadarādhaṃ kṣattam arhaṃtti saṃtaḥ || |
Language: | Sanskrit in Telugu script |
Form: | folia |
Material: | palm leaf |
Extent: | 221 |
Dimension: | 5 x 50 cm |
Foliation: | formula: [i-iii], 1-216, [iv-v] |
Condition: | 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; Folio 79 is completely broken off three inches on left side but with complete text still available; Some loss of text due to water damage and mold. Completely inked |
Binding: |
Wooden covers
Tying cord and a metal peg through lateral holes
Condition: good. |
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, PÄlÄ« 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. |
Record revised: | ???date mo.??? 2010 |
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