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) ff. 1r–124v (complete)
Author:Kṛṣṇa Dvaipāyana Vyāsa
Title:Mahābhārata
Part:Udyogaparvan
Cover rubric: front cover:
Line 1: Sanscrit Mahabharata.
Line 2: 5. Udyoga Parvam
Line 1: saṁskṛtamahābhāratamu
Line 2: 5. udyoga parvamu
Incipit: (upper foliation scheme) f. 1r, line 1:
!ve!<vai>śaṁpāyanaḥ .
kṛtvā vivāhaṁ tu kuru pravīrās tadābhimanyor muditās sapakṣāḥ [
Note:
MBh. 5.1.1ab
Explicit: (upper foliation scheme) f. 124v, line 12:

[
nyavādayantas saṁhṛṣṭās sahasrāyutaśo narāḥ
Note:
MBh. 5.197.21cd
Final rubric: (upper foliation scheme) f. 124v, line 13:
iti śrīmahābhārate śatasahasrikāyāṁ saṁhitāyāṁ vaiyyāśikyām u
dyogaparvaṇi pāṇḍavayuddhasannāhe nāma dvyottaraśatatamo[Z]dhyāyaḥ
Colophon:none
Language:Sanskrit in Telugu script

Physical description

Form:Folia
Material:Palm leaf.
Extent:125
Dimension:5.5 x 51 cm
Collation: Single leaves.
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: 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.

Hands

Hand 1:The scribe was a devotee of Kṛṣṇa and Rāma as the closing salutation on (upper foliation scheme) f. 124v, line 12 witnesses.
Additions:

bhaumakaḥ and viśvakarmā are written in the left margin on (upper foliation scheme) f. 45r. śrīrāma is written in the left margin on (upper foliation scheme) f. 53r. Text is crossed out on (upper foliation scheme) f. 124r.

Decoration

Illustration:Flowers in left margins mark the line in which a final rubric occurs.

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
SubjectSL:Mahābhārata

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Transcription (Manuscript Layout)

Line 1: Sanscrit Mahabharata.
Line 2: 5. Udyoga Parvam
Line 1: saṁskṛtamahābhāratamu
Line 2: 5. udyoga parvamu
parvan 5:
f.1r
Line 1: aDyAya 1:
!ve!<vai>śaṁpāyanaḥ . kṛtvā vivāhaṁ tu kuru pravīrās tadābhimanyor muditās sapakṣāḥ [ [ [ aDyAya 102:
[
f.124v
Line 1: [ nyavādayantas saṁhṛṣṭās sahasrāyutaśo narāḥ
Line 12:

śrīkṛṣṇārpaṇam astu . śrīrāmāya namaḥ .


Line 13:
iti śrīmahābhārate śatasahasrikāyāṁ saṁhitāyāṁ vaiyyāśikyām u
dyogaparvaṇi pāṇḍavayuddhasannāhe nāma dvyottaraśatatamo[Z]dhyāyaḥ
Record revised:21 January 2011