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: | ff. 1r–155v | ||
Author: | Kṛṣṇa Dvaipāyana Vyāsa | ||
Title: | Mahābhārata | ||
Part: | Droṇaparvan | ||
Cover rubric: |
front cover
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Incipit: |
f. 1r, line 1
vāgiśāvyās sumanasas sarvārdhānām upakrame . yā nnatvā kṛtakṛtyā stus taṁ nnamāmi gajānanaṁ . (Anuṣṭubh) janamejayaḥ . tam apratimasattvaujobalavīryaparākramam . hataṁ devavrataṁ śrutvā pāñcālyena śikhaṇḍinā (Anuṣṭubh) ( MBh. 7.1.1 ) | ||
Explicit: |
f. 155v, line 8
evam uktvārjunaṁ saṁkhye parāśarasutaḥ prabhuḥ . jagāma bharataśreṣṭha yathāgatam ariṁdama . ( MBh. 7.173.107 ) (Anuṣṭubh) vaiśaṁpāyanaḥ .. etad ākhyāyaya vaissūto rājñas sarvaṁ tu saṁjayaḥ . prayātaḥś śibirāyaiva draṣṭuṁ karṇasya vaiśasaṁ .. (Anuṣṭubh) ( MBh. 7.173.107d *1479, lines 1–2 ) | ||
Final rubric: |
f. 155v, lines 8–9
iti śrīmahābhārate śatasaha srikāyāṁ saṁhitāyāṁ vaiyyāśikyāṁā śrīdroṇaparvaṇi śatarudriyyaṁ nāmāṣṭanavatiśatamodhyāyaḥ | ||
Colophon: | none | ||
Language: | Sanskrit in Telugu script |
Form: | Folia |
Material: | Palm leaf |
Extent: | 160 folia |
Dimension: | 5.5 x 48.5 cm (h x w) |
Foliation: | Foliated in the left margin on the recto of each folio. |
Formula: | [i]–[ii], [1], 2–155, [iii–v] |
Collation: | Single folia |
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: | 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. |
Hand 1: | xxxxx |
Additions: |
Occassionally śrī is written in the left margin. On f. 1r written in the left margin is the following: śrīgaṇādhipataye namaḥ . śrīrāma śubham astu avighnam astu .. droṇa parvamū śrīrāma śubham astu On f. 1r unetched, in black ink, is written in the left margin: tri ā 155 The correction 12 pati .. is written in left margin on f. 49v. The correction 9 vaṁktilo[?] is written in the left margin on f. 61v. Written in the left margin on f. 72v is the following correction: sameṣyāmiraṇa rājanbahubhi ryuddhadurmadaiḥ . |
Illustration: | Flowers in left margins mark the line in which a final rubric occurs. |
Origin: | Unknown |
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. |
SubjectLC: | Mahābhārata |
SubjectLC: | Manuscripts, Sanskrit – 18th century |
SubjectLC: | Manuscripts – India – 18th century |
SubjectSL: | Mahābhārata |
Sanscrit Mahabharata.
7. Drona Parvam |
saṁskṛtamahābhāratamu
7. droṇaparvamu |