Manuscript Identifiers

Collection:Indic Manuscripts
Item:49
Repository:John Hay Library
Institution:Brown University
Location:Providence, Rhode Island, United States of America
Catalog:Poleman
Item:809

Contents

Work 1

Cover rubric: The Great Baratam Fifth or ???a ??i? of the ?a?? of the Po???? ?ur???
Final rubric: f. 112r:
idiśrīmadubhayakoṃmmanāmatyaputrabudhārādhanavirājitikkanasomayājipraṇītaṃbbainaśalyaparvaṃbbunaṃddusarvaṃbbunudvitiyyāśvāsamū || śrīmaṃggaḷmahāśrīśrīṃjjeyunū || śrīkṛṣṇārpaṇamastu ||

   Work 1.1

   Locus:f. ?-? (complete)
   Author:kṛṣṇa dvaipāyana vyāsa
   Title:mahābhārata
   Part:karṅa parvamu
   Incipit: f. 1r, line1:
śrī pariṇamasdhitivi | dyāpārīṅatvakāritānira | tāpāṃggaparamanaiṣṭikatvā | vyāpānuparānuraktahariharanādhā ||
Note: First lines of the karṅa parvamu of the tikkanna mahābhāratamu.
   Language:Telugu in Telugu script

   Work 1.2

   Locus:f. ?-? (complete)
   Author:kṛṣṇa dvaipāyana vyāsa
   Title:mahābhārata
   Part:śalya parvamu
   Incipit: f. 123r:
śrī girijāsadupāyama | hāgurutāsubhagasaṃppadāṃbbisadā | yogijanadṣemanamī | hāgarbhitadivyacittahariharanādhā ||
Note: First lines of the śalya parvamu of the tikkanna mahābhāratamu.
   Explicit: f. 112r:
|| mālini || bharitavidasamāṃttaḥpadmaniśreṅikāsaṃ | caraṅapariṅatatvaślākhaniyyakramodyā | marudu
pagamalīlāmadhyapūrṅneṃddubiṃbbā | kṣaradamṛtavikārotsāranānaṃddarūpā ||
Note: Last lines of the dvitīyāśvāsamu of the śalya parvamu of the tikkanna mahābhāratamu.
   Language:Telugu in Telugu script

Physical description

Form:folia
Material:palm leaf
Extent:215
Dimension:3 x 39.7 cm
Foliation:two folios numbered as 8
formula: [i], 1-8a, 8b-212, [ii]
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 and loss of folio structural integrity;
Binding: Wooden covers with tying cord
Condition: good.

Hands

Additions:

Note in left margin: “śrīrāmā” “śubhamastu” “karṇnaparvaṃ” folio 1r

Note in left margin: “śrīrāma” “śubhamastu” “gaṇapatissa” “hāyaṃ” folio 83r

Note in left margin: “śubhamastu” “avighnamastu” “śrīrāmā” folio 123r

Note in left margin: “śubhamastu” “avighnamastu” “śrīrāmā” “reṃḍoāśvā” “samu” folio 162r

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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Record revised:25 December 2009