Collection: | Indic Manuscripts |
Item: | 37 |
Repository: | John Hay Library |
Institution: | Brown University |
Location: | Providence, Rhode Island, United States of America |
Catalog: | Poleman |
Item: | 807 |
Locus: | ff. [I][1]-[II]248 (complete) |
Author: | kṛṣṇa dvaipāyana vyāsa |
Title: | mahābhārata |
Part: | parvan 11, 12 |
Cover rubric: |
left side of cover: Sanscrit Mahabharata. |
Cover rubric: |
right side of cover: saṃskṛtamahābhāratamu 11. strī parvamu 12. śāṃti parvamu |
Language: | Sanskrit in Telugu script |
Locus: | ff. [I][1]-[I]14 (complete) |
Author: | kṛṣṇa dvaipāyana vyāsa |
Title: | mahābhārata |
Part: | parvan 11 |
Incipit: |
f. [I][1], line 1: janamejayaḥ hate duryodhane caiva hate sainye ca sarvaśaḥ | dhṛtarāṣṭra mahātejā śrutvā kim akaron mune | (MBh. 11.1.1) |
Explicit: |
f. [I]14v, line 1: ... dhṛtarāṣṭrasya krutvā jalam ataṃdritaḥ | (MBh. T G1.3 M ins. after 11.27.24ab: G2 after 11.27.23: 11*0079_02ab) namuttatāra gaṃgāyā phāryayā naha bhārata || (MBh. For 11.27.24cd S subst.: 11*0081_01cd) |
Final rubric: |
f. [I]14v, line 1: iti śrīmahābhārate śatasahasriyāṃ sahitāyāṃ vaiyyāsikyāṃ strīparvaṇi udakapradānapraśaṃsānāma ṣaḍviṃśodhyāyaḥ | |
Language: | Sanskrit in Telugu script |
Locus: | ff. [II]1-[II]248 (complete) |
Author: | kṛṣṇa dvaipāyana vyāsa |
Title: | mahābhārata |
Part: | parvan 12 |
Incipit: |
f. [II][1], line 1: śuklāṃbaradharaṃ viṣṇuṃ śaśivarṇaṃ caturbhujaṃ prasaṃnavadanaṃ dhyāyet sarvavighnopaśāntaye || on namo bhagavate vāsudevāya || śrīvaiśaṃpāyana uvāca || kṛtvodakaṃ te suhṛdāṃ sarveṣāṃ pāṃḍunaṃdanāḥ | (MBh. 12.1.1) |
Explicit: |
f. [II]248v, line 3: ekoktaṃ kadhitaṃ putra yadhāvadhanubhipṛcchataḥ sāṃkhyajñāne tathā yoge yathāvad anuvarṇitaṃ || (MBh. 12.339.21) |
Final rubric: |
f. [II]248v, line 4: iti śrīmahābhārate śatasahasrikāyāṃ saṃhitāyāṃ vaiyyāsikyāṃ śrīśāṃtiparvaṇi mokṣadharmanārāyaṇiye śatatamodhyāyaḥ || |
Language: | Sanskrit in Telugu script |
Form: | folia |
Material: | palm leaf |
Extent: | 265 |
Dimension: | 5 x 48.5 cm |
Foliation: | formula: I: [1], 2-14; II: [1], 2-248, [i-ii] |
Condition: | Excellent condition; browned leaves; minimal fraying at the edges; a few cracked and split leaves that don't interfere with legibility; a few worm holes in the margins; a spot of white paste appears in each margin on the recto of each folio, often covering the number. Burn spots on 87r. |
Binding: |
Wooden covers with tying cord and a metal peg through lateral holes
Condition: good. |
Additions: |
Left margin in scribes hand: “śubhamastu” “avighnamastu” “śrīrāma jayaṃ” “śrīvaryaṃ” [I]1r In wide black ink lines in different hand: “pati” ? “ṃ” “ā14” [I]1r One line in medium width black line in Urdu script between the two last black marker lines: [I]1r In Telugu, uninked. ???? “maya” “nucunu sāve1d|āninā” “yaviṃpamu sa|ṃ|nnutata” [II][ii]v |
Illustration: | flowers in most left margins |
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 |
Record revised: | 25 December 2009 |
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