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 (incomplete) | ||
Author: | Kṛṣṇa Dvaipāyana Vyāsa | ||
Title: | Mahābhārata | ||
Part: | Bhīṣmaparvan | ||
Cover rubric: |
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Incipit: |
f. 1r: janamejayaḥ .. kathaṁ yuyudhire vīrāḥ kurupāṇḍavasomakāḥ . pārthivāś ca mahātmano nānādeśasamāgatāḥ Note: MBh. 6.1.1 | ||
Explicit: |
f. 109r, lines 1–2: ityu bruvantaṁ gāṅgeyam abhivādya prasādya ca . rādheyo ratham āruhya prāyāt tava sutaṁ prati . Note: MBh. 6.117.34 vaiśaṁpaiyanaḥ . bhīṣmaparvaṇi rājeṁdrakathāṁte kurunandana . brāhmaṇan pūjayed bhyaktyā vastrālaṁkārabhojanaiḥ . vaktāraṁ pūjayed bhaktyā vastrālaṁkarādibhiḥ saphalaṁ syāt tacchravaṇaṁ bhagavān modate bhṛśaṁ . | ||
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 .. | ||
Language: | Sanskrit in Telugu script |
Form: | Folia |
Material: | Palm leaf. |
Extent: | 109 |
Dimension: | 5 x 48.5 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; 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 apahAra 'taking away'. Is not clear to what this term refers. On f. 41v is written in the left margin the following:
“dvitīyā
On f. 47v is written in the left margin the following:
“tritīyyāpa
On f. 52v is written in the left margin the following:
“caturthā
On f. 64r is written in the left margin the following:
“ṣaṣṭāpa
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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 |
Line 1: Sanscrit Mahabharata.
Line 2: 6. Bheeshma Parvam |
Line 1: saṁskṛtamahābhāratamu
Line 2: 6. bhīṣmaparvamu |
śrīgaupālakṛṣṇabrahmaṇe namaḥ . śrīrāmacaṁdrāya namaḥ . karakṛtam aparādhaṁ kṣanttum arhantti santtaḥ .. suvarnnaṁ veṁkkaṭācalayyagāri bhīṣmaparvaṇi samāptaṁ .. śri śri śri śri śri śri śri śri śri śri śri śri śri śri śri śri śri śri śri śri śri śri śri śri śri śri śri śri śri śri śri śri śri śri śri śri śri śri śri śri śri śri śri śri śri śri śri śri śri śri śri śri śri śri śri hariḥ õ śrīkṛṣṇārpaṇam astu .. śrīvedavyāsāya namaḥ ..
jñānānandamayaṁ devaṁ nirmalasphaṭisākṛtiṁ . ādhāraṁ sarvavidyānāṁ hayagrivam upāsmahe ..Record revised: | 22 January 2011 |
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