Collection: | Indic Manuscripts |
Item: | 49 |
Repository: | John Hay Library |
Institution: | Brown University |
Location: | Providence, Rhode Island, United States of America |
Catalog: | Poleman |
Item: | 809 |
Cover rubric: | The Great Baratam Fifth or ???a ??i? of the ?a?? of the Po???? ?ur??? |
Final rubric: |
f. 112r: idiśrīmadubhayakoṃmmanāmatyaputrabudhārādhanavirājitikkanasomayājipraṇītaṃbbainaśalyaparvaṃbbunaṃddusarvaṃbbunudvitiyyāśvāsamū || śrīmaṃggaḷmahāśrīśrīṃjjeyunū || śrīkṛṣṇārpaṇamastu || |
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 |
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 |
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. |
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 |
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 |
SubjectSL: | Mahābhārata |
Record revised: | 25 December 2009 |
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