Manuscript Identifiers

Collection:Indic Manuscripts
Item:32
Repository:John Hay Library
Institution:Brown University
Location:Providence, Rhode Island, United States of America
Catalog:Poleman
Item:824

Contents

Work 1

Locus:(upper foliation scheme) from="1" to="124">f. 1-124 (complete)
Author:kṛṣṇa dvaipāyana vyāsa
Title:mahābhārata
Part:udyogaparvan
Cover rubric: left side of cover:
Sanscrit Mahabharata.
5. Udyoga Parvam
Cover rubric: right side of cover:
saṃskṛtamahābhāratamu
5. udyoga parvamu
Incipit: (upper foliation scheme) f. 1r, line 1:
vaiśaṃpāyanaḥ | kṛtvā vivāhaṃ tu kuru pravīrāḥs tadābhimanyor muditasvapakṣāḥ
(MBh. 5.1.1ab)
Explicit: (upper foliation scheme) f. 124v, line 12:
vādayanti sma saṃhṛṣṭāḥ sahasrāyutaśo narāḥ
(MBh. 5.197.21cd)
Final rubric: (upper foliation scheme) f. 124v, line 13:
iti śrīmahābhārate śatasadāsrirauyāṃ saṃhitāyāṃ vaiyyāśikyāmu
dyogaparvaṇi p[missing: ?]s vayuddhasannāhodāmadvyattaraśatatamodvāyaḥ |
Colophon:None
Language:Sanskrit in Telugu script

Physical description

Form:folia
Material:palm leaf
Extent:125
Dimension:5.5 x 51 cm
Foliation:There are two sets of numbering, one above the other, starting in the 2nd folio. Both numbering sets are in the left margin, having the same script but different pen. The numbering set in the upper corner of left margin is in a newer ink, and is unetched. The numbering set in the middle of the left margin is in the original hand, and is etched and inked.
upper formula: [i], 1-124
Foliation: lower formula: [i], 221-344
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 can create lacunae. Completely inked
Binding: Wooden covers Cord and a metal peg through lateral holes
Condition: good.

Hands

Hand 1:The scribe was a devotee of kṛṣṇa and rāma as the closing salutation witnesses: “śrī kṛṣṇārpaṇam astu | śrī rāmāya namaḥ” (upper foliation scheme) f. 124v, line 12:
Additions:

note: “bhaumakaḥ
visvakarmā” written in left margin (upper foliation scheme) f. 45r.

note: “śrīrāma
śrīrāma
śrīrāma” written in left margin (upper foliation scheme) f. 53r.

[crossed out text]

(upper foliation scheme) f. 124r:

Decoration

Illustration:flowers in some left margins

History

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.

Subject headings

SubjectLC:Mahābhārata
SubjectLC:Manuscripts, Sanskrit -- 18th century
SubjectLC:Manuscripts -- India -- 18th century

Facsimile

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Transcription

vaiśaṃpāyanaḥ | kṛtvā vivāhaṃ tu kuru pravīrāḥs tadābhimanyor muditasvapakṣāḥ ...
(MBh. 5.1.1ab)
f. 124v:
... vādayanti sma saṃhṛṣṭāḥ sahasrāyutaśo narāḥ
(MBh. 5.197.21cd)
Line 13:
iti śrīmahābhārate śatasadāsrirauyāṃ saṃhitāyāṃ vaiyyāśikyāmu
dyogaparvaṇi p[missing: ?]s vayuddhasannāhodāmadvyattaraśatatamodvāyaḥ |
Record revised:25 December 2009