Manuscript Identifiers

Collection:Indic Manuscripts
Item:35
Repository:John Hay Library
Institution:Brown University
Location:Providence, Rhode Island, United States of America
Catalog:Poleman
Item:830

Contents

Work 1

Locus:ff. 1r–109v (incomplete)
Author:Kṛṣṇa Dvaipāyana Vyāsa
Title:Mahābhārata
Part:Bhīṣmaparvan
Cover rubric: ?:
Line 1: Sanscrit Mahabharata.
Line 2: 6. Bheeshma Parvam
Line 1: saṁskṛtamahābhāratamu
Line 2: 6. bhīṣmaparvamu
Incipit: f. 1r:
janamejayaḥ ..
kathaṁ yuyudhire vīrāḥ kurupāṇḍavasomakāḥ .
pārthivāś ca mahātmano nānādeśasamāgatāḥ
Note:
MBh. 6.1.1
Explicit: f. 109r, lines 1–2:

ityu bruvantaṁ gāṅgeyam abhivādya prasādya ca .
rādheyo ratham āruhya prāyāt tava sutaṁ prati .
Note:
MBh. 6.117.34
vaiśaṁpaiyanaḥ .
bhīṣmaparvaṇi rājeṁdrakathāṁte kurunandana .
brāhmaṇan pūjayed bhyaktyā vastrālaṁkārabhojanaiḥ .
vaktāraṁ pūjayed bhaktyā vastrālaṁkarādibhiḥ
saphalaṁ syāt tacchravaṇaṁ bhagavān modate bhṛśaṁ .
Final rubric: f. 109r, lines 2–3:
iti śrībhīṣmaparvaṇi śrīmahābhārate śatasahasrikāyāṁ saṁhitāyāṁ vaiyāsikyāṁ śrībhīṣmaparvaṇi bhīṣmakarṇasaṁvādo nāma ṣoḍaśottaraśatatamo dhyāyaḥ .
Colophon: f. 109r, lines 3–5:
karakṛtam aparādhaṁ kṣanttum arhantti santtaḥ ..suvarnnaṁ veṁkkaṭācalayyagāri bhīṣmaparvaṇi samāptaṁ ..
jñānānandamayaṁ devaṁ nirmalasphaṭisākṛtiṁ .
ādhāraṁ sarvavidyānāṁ hayagrivam upāsmahe ..
Language:Sanskrit in Telugu script

Physical description

Form:Folia
Material:Palm leaf.
Extent:109
Dimension:5 x 48.5 cm
Collation: Single leaves.
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: 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:xxxxx
Additions:

Marginal corrections are numerous.

Several folios mark an apahAra 'taking away'. Is not clear to what this term refers. On f. 41v is written in the left margin the following: “dvitīyā
pahāraḥ”

On f. 47v is written in the left margin the following: “tritīyyāpa
hāraḥ”

On f. 52v is written in the left margin the following: “caturthā
pahāraḥ”

On f. 64r is written in the left margin the following: “ṣaṣṭāpa
hāraḥ”

Decoration

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

History

Origin:The colophon on f. 109r, lines 3–4:
mentions suvarnaṁ veṁkkaṭācalayya.
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: 6. Bheeshma Parvam
Line 1: saṁskṛtamahābhāratamu
Line 2: 6. bhīṣmaparvamu
parvan 6:
f.1r
Line 1: aDyAya 1:
janamejayaḥ .. kathaṁ yuyudhire vīrāḥ kurupāṇḍavasomakāḥ . pārthivāś ca mahātmano nānādeśasamāgatāḥ [ [ aDyAya 20:
[
f.13v
[ [ [
Line 11: ho yodhair yoddhā pitāmahaḥ . akṣayobhyo'yam abhedyaś ca bhīṣmeṇāmitrakarśinā . kalpitaś śāstradṛṣṭena vidhinā bhūrivarcasā . te vayaṁ saṁśayaṁ prāptās sainyāś śatrukarśanā . katham asmān mahāvyūhād yuddham atrābhiṣyati . athā'bravi <d arjunaḥ pārthaṁ yudhiṣṭhiram amitrahā> [missing 1 leaf, Missing folio 14 containing the end of chapter 20, chapter 21, and the beginning of chapter 22 corresponding to
MBh. 6.21.6a–6.41.10c ] <yathāmukhyāś cānvājagmur>
f.15r
Line 1: rājānas taṁ samutsukāḥ . kiṁ te vyavasitaṁ rājan yad asmānś ca vihāya vai . padbhyām eva prayāto 'si prāk sthitāṁ ripuvāhinīm . arjuna0 . kva gamiṣyasi rājendra nikṣipya ca varāyudham . daṁśiteṣv api sainyeṣu bhrātṝn utsṛjya pāṇḍavān . te tvayā vai gamiṣyan
Line 2: [ [ [ [ aDyAya 116:
f.109r
Line 1: ityu bruvantaṁ gāṅgeyam abhivādya prasādya ca . rādheyo ratham āruhya prāyāt tava sutaṁ prati . vaiśaṁpaiyanaḥ . bhīṣmaparvaṇi rājeṁdrakathāṁte kurunandana . brāhmaṇan pūjayed bhyaktyā vastrālaṁkārabhojanaiḥ . vaktāraṁ pūjayed bhaktyā vastrālaṁkarādibhiḥ saphalaṁ syāt tacchravaṇaṁ bhagavān modate bhṛśaṁ . [
Line 2:
iti śrībhīṣmaparvaṇi śrīmahābhārate śatasahasrikāyāṁ saṁhitāyāṁ vaiyāsikyāṁ śrībhīṣmaparvaṇi bhīṣmakarṇasaṁvādo nāma ṣoḍaśottaraśatatamo dhyāyaḥ .
[
Line 3:
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śrīgaupālakṛṣṇabrahmaṇe namaḥ . śrīrāmacaṁdrāya namaḥ . karakṛtam aparādhaṁ kṣanttum arhantti santtaḥ .. suvarnnaṁ veṁkkaṭācalayyagāri bhīṣmaparvaṇi samāptaṁ .. śri śri śri śri śri śri śri śri śri śri śri śri śri śri śri śri śri śri śri śri śri śri śri śri śri śri śri śri śri śri śri śri śri śri śri śri śri śri śri śri śri śri śri śri śri śri śri śri śri śri śri śri śri śri śri hariḥ õ śrīkṛṣṇārpaṇam astu .. śrīvedavyāsāya namaḥ ..

jñānānandamayaṁ devaṁ nirmalasphaṭisākṛtiṁ . ādhāraṁ sarvavidyānāṁ hayagrivam upāsmahe ..
Record revised:22 January 2011