Manuscript Identifiers

Collection:Indic Manuscripts
Item:34
Repository:John Hay Library
Institution:Brown University
Location:Providence, Rhode Island, United States of America
Catalog:Poleman
Item:836

Contents

Work 1

Locus:ff. 1r–155v (complete)
Author:Kṛṣṇa Dvaipāyana Vyāsa
Title:Mahābhārata
Part:Droṇaparvan
Cover rubric: ?:
Line 1: Sanscrit Mahabharata.
Line 2: 7. Drona Parvam
Line 1: saṁskṛtamahābhāratamu
Line 2: 7. droṇaparvamu
Incipit: f. 1r, line 1:

vāgiśāvyās sumanasas sarvārdhānām upakrame .
yā nnatvā kṛtakṛtyā stus taṁ nnamāmi gajānanaṁ .
janamejayaḥ .
tam apratimasattvaujobalavīryaparākramam .
hataṁ devavrataṁ śrutvā pāñcālyena śikhaṇḍinā
Note:
MBh. 7.1.1
Explicit: f. 155v, line 8:

evam uktvārjunaṁ saṁkhye parāśarasutaḥ prabhuḥ .
jagāma bharataśreṣṭha yathāgatam ariṁdama .
Note:
MBh. 7.173.107
vaiśaṁpāyanaḥ ..
etad ākhyāyaya vaissūto rājñas sarvaṁ tu saṁjayaḥ .
prayātaḥś śibirāyaiva draṣṭuṁ karṇasya vaiśasaṁ ..
Note:
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

Physical description

Form:Folia
Material:Palm leaf.
Extent:160
Dimension:5.5 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. 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.

Hands

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 .”

Decoration

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

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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Transcription (Manuscript Layout)

Line 1: Sanscrit Mahabharata.
Line 2: 7. Drona Parvam
Line 1: saṁskṛtamahābhāratamu
Line 2: 7. droṇaparvamu
parvan 7:
f.1r
Line 1: śrīgaṇādhipataye namaḥ . [ intro :
vāgiśāvyās sumanasas sarvārdhānām upakrame . yā nnatvā kṛtakṛtyā stus taṁ nnamāmi gajānanaṁ . aDyAya 1:
janamejayaḥ . tam apratimasattvaujobalavīryaparākramam . hataṁ devavrataṁ śrutvā pāñcālyena śikhaṇḍinā [ [ aDyAya 198:
[
f.155v
Line 8: evam uktvārjunaṁ saṁkhye parāśarasutaḥ prabhuḥ . jagāma bharataśreṣṭha yathāgatam ariṁdama . vaiśaṁpāyanaḥ .. etad ākhyāyaya vaissūto rājñas sarvaṁ tu saṁjayaḥ . prayātaḥś śibirāyaiva draṣṭuṁ karṇasya vaiśasaṁ .. [
iti śrīmahābhārate śatasaha
Line 9: srikāyāṁ saṁhitāyāṁ vaiyyāśikyāṁā śrīdroṇaparvaṇi śatarudriyyaṁ nāmāṣṭanavatiśatamodhyāyaḥ [
Line 10: śrīrāmakṛṣṇāya namaḥ .. hariḥ . śrīparameśvarārpaṇam astu .. śrīśrīśrīśrīśrīśrīśrīśrīśrī
Record revised:22 January 2011