Collection: | Indic Manuscripts |
Item: | 34 |
Repository: | John Hay Library |
Institution: | Brown University |
Location: | Providence, Rhode Island, United States of America |
Catalog: | Poleman |
Item: | 836 |
Locus: | f. 1-155 (complete) |
Author: | kṛṣṇa dvaipāyana vyāsa |
Title: | mahābhārata |
Part: | droṇaparvan |
Cover rubric: |
left side of cover: Sanscrit Mahabharata. 7. Drona Parvam |
Cover rubric: |
right side of cover: saṃskṛtamahābhāratamu 7. droṇaparvamu |
Incipit: |
f. 1r, line 1: vāgiśādyās sumanasas sarvārdhānām upakrame | yaṃ natvā dṛtasṛtyā syus taṃ namāmi gajānanaṃ || janamejayaḥ | tam apratimasattvaujobalavīryaparākramam | hataṃ devavrataṃ śrutvā pāñcālyena śikhaṇḍinā (MBh. 7.1.1) |
Explicit: |
f. 155v.l8: evam uktvārjunaṃ saṃkhye parāśarasutaḥ prabhuḥ | jagāma bharataśreṣṭha yathāgatam ariṃdama | (MBh. 7.173.107) vaiśaṃpāyanaḥ || etad ākhyāyaya vaissūto rājñas sarvaṃ tu saṃjayaḥ | prayātaḥś śibir āyaiva draṣṭuṃ karṇasya vaiśasaṃ || (MBh. 07,173.107d*1479_01 ) |
Final rubric: |
f. 155v, line 8-9: iti śrīmahābhārate śatasahasrikāyāṃ saṃhitāyāṃ vaiyyāśikyāṃā śrīdroṇaparvaṇi śatarudriyyaṃ nāmāṣṭanavatiśatamodhyāyaḥ |
Language: | Sanskrit in Telugu script |
Form: | folia |
Material: | palm leaf |
Extent: | 160 |
Dimension: | 5.5 x 48.5 cm |
Foliation: | formula: [i-ii], [1], 2-155, [iii-v] |
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. Completely inked |
Binding: |
Wooden covers
Tying cord and a metal peg through lateral holes
Condition: good. |
Illustration: | flowers in some left margins |
Acquisition: |
(Stuart C. Sherman (1977: 79)) describes the acquisition of the Indic manuscripts in the Brown University Library as follows:
Indic ManuscriptsA 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, PÄlÄ« 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. |
Record revised: | ???date mo.??? 2010 |
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