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. 1-103 (complete) |
Author: | kṛṣṇa dvaipāyana vyāsa |
Title: | mahābhārata |
Part: | bhīṣmaparvan |
Cover rubric: |
left side of cover: Sanscrit Mahabharata. Bheeshma Parvam |
Cover rubric: |
right side of cover: saṃskṛtamahābhāratamu 1. bhīṣmaparvamu |
Incipit: |
f. 1r: janamejayaḥ || kathaṃ yuyudhire vīrāḥ kurupāṇḍavasomakāḥ | pārthivāś ca mahātmano nānādeśasamāgatāḥ (MBh. 6.1.1) |
Explicit: |
f. 103r, lines 1-2: ityu bruvantaṃ gāṅgeyam abhivādya prasādya ca | rādheyo ratham āruhya prāyāt tava sutaṃ prati | (MBh. 6.117.34) vaiśaṃpaiyanaḥ | bhīṣmaparvaṇi rājeṃdrakathāṃte kurinaṃdana | brāhmaṇan pūjayed bhyaktyā vastrālaṃkārabhojanaiḥ | vaktāraṃ pūjayed bhaktyā vastrālaṃkaraṇavibhiṣi saphalaṃ syāt tabhravaṇaṃ bhagavān mādate bhṛśaṃ | |
Final rubric: |
f. 103r, lines 2-3: iti śrībhīṣmaparvaṇi śrīmahābhārate śatasahasrikāyāṃsaṃ hitāyāṃ vaiyāsikyāṃ śrībhīṣmaparvaṇi bhīṣmakarṇasaṃvādā nāma ṣoḍaśottaraśatatamo dhyāyaḥ | |
Colophon: |
f. 103r, lines 3-5: karakṛtam aparādhaṃ kṣaṃttum arhaṃtti saṃttaḥ || suvarnnaṃ veṃkkaṭācalayyagāri bhīṣmaparvaṇi samāptaṃ || |
Language: | Sanskrit in Telugu script |
Form: | folia |
Material: | palm leaf |
Extent: | 110 |
Dimension: | 5 x 48.5 cm |
Foliation: | Text for one folio is written on 2 palm leaves; 1st palm leaf is blank on the verso side with text on the recto side; the 2nd palm leaf is blank on the recto side with text on the verso side.
blank folio
folio 90(a)v
blank folio
folio 90(b)r
formula: 1-90[a], 90[b], 91-109 |
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: | Wooden covers with tying cord and a metal peg through lateral holes |
Additions: |
Numerous notes in margins.
f. 41v:
f. 47v:
f. 52v:
f. 64r: |
Illustration: | Flowers in some left margins. |
Origin: | suvarnnaṃveṃkkaṭācalayya
“f. 103r, lines 3-4: |
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, 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 |
Record revised: | 25 December 2009 |
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