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: | ff. 1r–216v (complete) | ||
Author: | Kṛṣṇa Dvaipāyana Vyāsa | ||
Title: | Mahābhārata | ||
Part: | Ādiparvan | ||
Cover rubric: |
front cover:
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Incipit: |
f. 1r, line 1: vāgiśād!va!<>yās sumanasas sarvārthānām upakrame . yaṁ nnatva kṛtakṛtyāstu staṁ nnamāmi gajānanaṁ . pārāśaryavacaḥ sarojamamalaṁ nitārthagaṁdhotkalaṁ nānākhyānakakesaraṁ harikathā sadbhānunā bodhitaṁ ugraśravās santi paurāṇiko naimiśāraṇye śaunakasya kulapatir dvādaśavārṣike satre pravartamāne
sukhāsinān abhyagacchad brahmarṣiśaṁsitavratān . vinayavanato bhūtvā kadāci t sūtanandanaḥ Note: MBh. 1.1.2 | ||
Explicit: |
f. 216v, lines 3–4: evaṁ tau samanujñātā pāvakena mahātmanā . arjuno vāsudevaś ca dānavaś ca mayas tathā . Note: MBh. 1.225.18 parikramya tataḥs sarve trayoka bharatarṣabha . ramaṇīyyanadikūle sahitā samupāviśan Note: MBh. 1.225.19 [brahmaṇarvedavedikaḥ . taṁ pūjayet tadā śrotā svarṇābharaṇabhūṣaṇaiḥ vadyādyelabrāhmaṇebhyaś ca bhājanaṁ ca na dakṣiṇaṁ
śruṇuyād idam ādiparvamukhyaṁ tathādi yaḥ paṭhati viśuddhabuddhiḥ saṁprāpnoti paraṁ sukhaṁ nṛto kenāraṁ gatvā
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Final rubric: |
f. 216v, lines 4–6: iti śrī mahābhārate śatasāhasryaṁ vaiyyāsikyāṁ sahitāyām ādiparvaṇy ekapaṁccāśaduttaradviśatatamodhyāyaḥ | ||
Colophon: |
f. 216v, line 7: jayamu .. śanakratunāma saṁ .. ādinela 20 tedi ādiparvamu vrāsiri samāptamu karakṛtam aparādhaṁ kṣantum arhanti santtaḥ .. | ||
Language: | Sanskrit in Telugu script |
Form: | Folia |
Material: | Palm leaf. |
Extent: | 221 |
Dimension: | 5 x 50 cm |
Collation: | Single leaves. |
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 create lacunae; folio 79 (f. 79r–f. 79v) 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: | 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, 7 on the final f. 216v. |
Hand 1: | xxxxx |
Additions: |
Written in black ink unetched in the left margin on f. 1r is the following:
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nāparā is written in the right margin on f. 12v. āciragatiśceti is written in left margin on f. 13v. In the left margin on f. 14v is written the following:
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In the right margin on f. 14v is written the following:
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Written in the left margin on f. 15r is the following, with lacunae due to worm holes:
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“[?][?][?]” is written in the left margin on f. 216v. “gīḍinamaśūyasiṁdhiṁnamaḥ .. aāiīuūṛṝlulū” is written etched but not inked in top left margin on f. [iv]r. Written unetched, in black ink in the left margin are the following akṣara counts:
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Illustration: | Flowers in left margins mark the line in which a final rubric occurs. |
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 |
Line 1: Sanscrit Mahabharata.
Line 2: 1. Audi Parvam |
Line 1: saṁskṛtamahābhāratamu
Line 2: 1. ādiparvamu |
ugraśravās santi paurāṇiko naimiśāraṇye śaunakasya kulapatir dvādaśavārṣike satre pravartamāne
Line 11: samā .
śruṇuyād idam ādiparvamukhyaṁ tathādi yaḥ paṭhati viśuddhabuddhiḥ saṁprāpnoti paraṁ sukhaṁ nṛto kenāraṁ gatvā
Line 6: paramasukhatāṁ prāpnuyād vipramukhyaḥ .
Record revised: | 22 January 2011 |
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