A 26-7 Mahābhārata
Manuscript culture infobox
Filmed in: A 26/7
Title: Mahābhārata
Dimensions: 35.5 x 4.5 cm x 51 folios
Material: palm-leaf
Condition:
Scripts: Maithili
Languages: Sanskrit
Subjects: Mahābhārata
Date: LS 655
Acc No.: NAK 1/1077
Remarks: Svargārohaṇaparvan
Reel No. A 26-7
Inventory No. 30914
Title Mahābhārata; Svargārohaṇaparvan
Author Vyāsa
Subject Mahābhārata
Language Sanskrit
Manuscript Details
Script Maithili
Material palm-leaf
State incomplete
Size 33.5 x 4.5 cm
Binding Hole 1, rectangular, in the centre
Folios 50
Lines per Folio 4
Foliation figures in the middle of the left-hand margin of the verso
Date of Copying LS 655 ?
Place of Deposit NAK
Accession No. 1/ 1077
Manuscript Features
Some missing fols. have been substituted by fols. from another MS (“b”). Thus, the order of fols. is as follows:
a: 1; 3–17; b: 20–18; 21–28; 30–39; a: 40; 47–41; b: 40; a: 49–52.
In some places, faded akṣaras have been written over by a later hand.
There is an additional fol., serving as a cover-folio, on which the text is styled as follows: mahābhāratasya – svargārohaṇa parva.
Excerpts
Beginning
oṁ namo nārāyaṇāya ||
nārāyaṇaṃ namaskṛtya narañ caiva narottamaṃ |
devīṃ sarasvatīñ caiva tato jayam ud⁅īraye⁆///
jayati raghuvaṃśatilakaḥ kauśalyāhṛdayananda〇no rāmaḥ
daśavadananidhanakārī dāśarathiḥ puṇḍarīkākṣaḥ ||
jayati parāsarasūnu[[ḥ]] satyavatīhṛ〇dayanandano vyāsaḥ |
yasyāsya kamalagandhaṃ….///(5)⁅gatāpi ..ti ||⁆
⁅yo go⁆⟪sa⟫śataṃ kanaśṛṅgamayaṃ (!) dadāti viprāya vedaviduṣe ⟨⟨..⟩⟩ ti bahuśrūtāya (!) ||
(fol. 1v1–4)
End
yudhiṣṭhira uvāca ||
tvatprasādena govinda cottīrṇṇaḥ śokasāgarāt |
bhuktaṃ bhogyaṃ ma (!) sarvvaṃ tvatprasādena mādhava |
adya me saphalaṃ janma ⟨adya me saphalaṃ janma⟩
a (!) me saphalā 〇 kriyā ||
viṣṇu(r u)vāca ||
mātribhrātṛsamaṃ rājan bhuṃkṣva bhogyaṃ manoma(na)m ||
yāva (!) tiṣṭhāhaṃ (!) loke tāva (!) tiṣṭha narottama |
yāvac candraś ca sūryaś ca yāvati (!) medinī
(ja)〇va (!) tvaṃ tiṣṭha rājendra mama loke na saṃśayaḥ |
anye ye vai samārohe mayā panthānanam (!) āsitāḥ |
na bhayaṃ te prapaśyanti yonitvāraṃ susaṃṅkaṭam (!)
evam uktvā tu govinda tatrāntaradhīyataḥ (!) |
yudhiṣṭhiro pi rājendra tatra viṣṇupure sadā
nyavasad bhrātṛbhiḥ sārddhaṃ yāvad āhūtasaṃplavaṃ ||
svargārohaṇakañ caiva ye paṭhani (!) dine dine
svargalokaṃn tu (te) yānti sapāpavivarjjitāḥ (!) |
ye paṭhanti narā bhaktyā śṛṇvanti śrāvayanti ca |
ta…aṃ phalam āpnoti satyam eva na saṃśayaḥ ||
(fol. 52r1–5)
Colophon
iti śrī || ○ || ○ || ○ mahābhārate svargāroṇapustakaṃ (!) samāptam iti || (śubham astu) || śrīr astu || la saṃ (65)5 (pakani āsaṃ)…………..
(fol. 52r6)
Microfilm Details
Reel No. A 26/7
Date of Filming 07-09-1970
Exposures 55
Used Copy Berlin
Type of Film negative
Catalogued by OH
Date 13-04-2005
