Manuscript Identifiers

Collection:Indic Manuscripts
Item:50
Repository:John Hay Library
Institution:Brown University
Location:Providence, Rhode Island, United States of America
Catalog:Poleman
Item:815

Contents

Work 1

Locus:f. ?-? (incomplete)
Author:??
Title:??
Part:??
Incipit: f.1r, lines 1-2:
śrīvāṇigirijā | śrīrāyup|adhatopakṣomukhāṃgeṣu | yelokānastot|am|a?? ttivihitā |
Note: (text loss due to frayed edges on right margin)
pūjitāvassuraibhūyāsuḥpuruṣottamā?s ṃbbujabhavaśrīkaṃdharāśreyane ||va ||anisakalabhūvanarakṣaṇaprabhūvulayenayādyuvaina |
Note: These are the first lines of the ādiparvamu of the tikkanna mahābhāratamu.
Explicit: f.180r, lines 3-4:
dānidṛpadarājatnayayudapastiyasvayaṃsvarotsavamunapuḍumāḍaganinavārudriṣṭigaviganapulamellaganinavāruparamakātukamunā || va ||
Note: These are the final lines in the manuscript
Language:Telugu in Telugu script

Physical description

Form:folia
Material:palm leaf
Extent:183
Dimension:4 x 43 cm
Foliation: formula: [i], 1-180, [ii-iii]
Condition:Good condition; browned leaves; minimal fraying at the edges; a few cracked and split leaves that don't interfere with legibility; some major worm holes that create lacunae and compromise structural integrity of folio; Two inches on left side of folio 86 are broken; Two inches on right side of folio 1 and 174 are broken off; Some loss of text; Handwriting difficult to decipher.
Binding: No bindings.
Condition: good.
Layout:

Writing ends middle of folio folio 72v

Writing ends middle of folio folio 132v

Only one line of writing on folio folio 163v

Hands

Additions:

Note in left margin: “śrīrāma” “śubhamastu” “avighnamastu” “ādiparvaṃ” folio 1r

Note in left margin: “śrīrāma” “śubhamastu” “avighnamastu” folio 22r

Unidentifiable markings scattered around left margin. Only Telugu character ma is legible folio 26v

Note in left margin: “bayyenasmatulaṃ” folio 35v

Note in left margin: “śrīrāma” “śubhamastu” “avighnamastu” “mūḍra āśuna” “mu” folio 44r

Note in left margin: “śrīrāma” “śubhamastu” “avighnamastu” folio 73r

Notes in both left and right margin: left margin: 7 lines of illegible text right margin: 5 lines of illegible text folio 107v

Note in left margin: “śrīrāma” “śubhamastu” “avighnamastu” folio 108r

Note in left margin: “śrīrāma” “śubhamastu” “avighnamastu” folio 164r

Decoration

Illustration:Flowers in left margin folio 133r

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:Manuscripts, Telugu
SubjectSL:Mahābhārata

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Record revised:25 December 2009