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 |
Author: | Tikkanasomayāji |
Title: | Mahābhārata |
Part: | Parvan 8–9 |
Cover rubric: |
front cover
The Great Baratam Fifth or ???a ??i? of the ?a?? of the Po???? ?ur??? |
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 |
Part: | Karṅa Parvamu |
Incipit: |
f. 1r, line1
śrī pariṇāmasthitivi . dyāpārīṅatvakāritanira . tāpāṁggaparamanaiṣṭikatvā . vyāpānuparānuraktahariharanāthā .. |
Explicit: |
f. 121v, line 7
ggalavālammulunu . dantavannambbulanaguradhyambbulununddanarathambbunumbūnpiṁcciyārohaṇambusensi . karadīpakau sahasrambbulu veluṁga . samastabandhu |
Final rubric: | none |
Colophon: | none |
Locus: | f. 123r–f. 212r |
Part: | Śalya Parvamu |
Incipit: |
f. 123r
śrīgirijāsadupāyamahā gurutāsubhagasaṁppadāmcci sadā . yogijanakṣemānajā . hārgabhitīdivyacittahariharanāthā .. ka.. devājanamejayathā . trīvallabhuḍutsukatvarekhāśrulīlāvilasituḍai iṭlanu . |
Explicit: |
f. 212r, lines 2–3
.. mālinī .. bharitavikasanāṁttaḥpadmaniśreṅikāsaṁ . caraṅapariṅatatvaślākhaniyyakramodyā . marudu pagamalīlāmadhyapū!nṇerṁ!<rṇenṁ>ddubiṁbbā . kṣaradamṛtavikārotsāranānaṁddarūpā .. (Mālinī) |
Final rubric: |
f. 212r, line 3
idi śrīmadubhayakoṁmmanāmatyaputrabudhārādhanavirājitikkanasomayājipraṇītaṁbbainaśalyaparvaṁbbunaṁddusarvaṁbbunudvitiyyāśvāsamū .. |
Colophon: | none |
Form: | Folia |
Material: | Palm leaf |
Extent: | 215 folia |
Dimension: | 3 x 39.7 cm (h x w) |
Foliation: | Foliated in the left margin on the recto of each folio. Missing folio 122 containing the close of the Karṇa Parvamu . Two folios are numbered 9 and two 64. |
Formula: | [i], 1–9[a], 9[b]–64[a], 64[b]–121, 123–212, [ii] |
Collation: | Single folia |
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 śubhamastu karṇnaparvaṁ In the left margin on f. 83r is written the following: śrīrāma śubhamastu gaṇapatissa hāyaṁ In the left margin on f. 123r is written the following: śubhamastu avighnamastu śrīrāmā In the left margin on f. 162r is written the following: śubhamastu avighnamastu śrīrāmā reṁḍoāśvā samu |
Origin: | Unknown |
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 |