B 18-24 Mahābhārata
Manuscript culture infobox
Filmed in: B 18/24
Title: Mahābhārata
Dimensions: 38.5 x 5 cm x 166 folios
Material: palm-leaf
Condition:
Scripts: Maithili
Languages: Sanskrit
Subjects: Mahābhārata
Date:
Acc No.: NAK 1/975
Remarks: Virāṭaparvan
Reel No. B 18-24
Title: Mahābhārata
Remarks: Virāṭaparvan
Subject: Mahābhārata
Language: Sanskrit
Manuscript Details
Script: Maithili
Material: palm-leaf
State: incomplete, damaged
Size: 38.5 x 5.0 cm
Binding Hole: 1, in the middle
Folios: 166
Lines per Folio: 4-5
Foliation: figures in the left margin of the verso
Date of Copying:
Place of Deposit: NAK
Accession No.: 1-975
Manuscript Features
Missing folios: 1-9, 29, 176ff.
There are two folios with the number 16.
A number of folios are broken in the margin with some loss of text (fols. 103-121, 169-175).
At the end there is one displaced folio without foliation which belongs to earlier on in the manuscript.
Excerpts
Beginning
°vastuṣu cāpy asya varttamāneṣu keṣu cit |
nātigāḍhaṃ prahṛṣyeta na cāpy unmattavad dhaset |
na cāpy adhairyyeṇa car[[e]]⟪..⟫d gurutāṃ hi vrajet tathā |
smitan tu mṛdupūrvveṇa da/// °śayeda(!) prasādajaṃ |
lābhe na harṣayed yas tu na vyathetāvamāninaḥ |
<ref >There is a correction in the upper margin, which replaces the second last akṣara, na, with another na (?) </ref>
asaṃmūḍhaś ca yo nityaṃ sa rājavasatiṃ vaset |
rājānaṃ rājaputraṃ vā saṃvarṇṇayati yaḥ sadā |
amātyaḥ paṇḍito bhūtvā sa ciraṃ tiṣṭhati śriyaṃ |
pragalbhaś caiva yo mātyo nigṛhītaś ca kāraṇaiḥ |
na nirbbadhnāti rājānaṃ labhate sampadaṃ punaḥ |
pratyakṣañ ca parokṣañ ca guṇavādī vicakṣaṇaḥ |
upajīvī bhaved rājño ⟪..⟫ viṣaye cāpi yo vaset |
amātyo hi balād bhoktuṃ rājānaṃ prārthayeta yaḥ |
na sa ti⁅ṣṭhe⁆+raṃ sthānaṃ gacchet tu prāṇasaṃśayaṃ | (fol. 10r1-10v1)
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«Sub-Colophons»
iti śrīmahābharate virāṭaparvvaṇi dhaumyaśikṣā || || (fol. 11v3)
iti śrīmahābhārate virāṭaparvvaṇi || (fol. 14r4-14v1)
iti śrīmahābhārate virāṭaparvvaṇi yudhiṣṭhirapraveśaḥ || (fol. 16r4-16v1)
iti śrīmahābhārate virāṭaparvvaṇi bhīmasenapraveśaḥ || || (fol. 17r1)
iti śrīmahābhārate virāṭaparvvaṇi draupadīpraveśaḥ || || (fol. 19v4)
iti śrīmahābhārate virāṭaparvvaṇi sahadevapraveśaḥ || (fol. fol. 21r3-4)
iti śrīmahābhārate virā[[ṭa]]parvvaṇy arjjunapraveśaḥ || || (fol. 22v3)
etc. etc.
End
stuvantan tān upātiṣṭhan sūtāś ca saha māgadhaiḥ |
sude(ṣṇā)ñ ca puraskṛtya matsyānāñ ca vara....
++jmuś cārusarvvāṅgyaḥ sumṛṣṭamaṇikuṇḍalāḥ |
varṇṇopapannā --yau(!) rūpavatyaḥ svalaṃkṛtāḥ |
sarvvāś cābhyaharat(!) kṛṣṇā rūpeṇa yaśasā ++
parivāryety uttarāṃ tasthu(!) rājaputrīm alaṃkṛtāṃ |
sutān iva mahendrasya puraskṛtyopatasthire |
tāṃ pratyagṛhṇat kaunteyaḥ pu⁅trasyārthe⁆ mahātma⁅naḥ⁆
+bhadrasyānavadyāṅgī(!) virāṭatanayās(!) tadā |
tatra tiṣṭhan(!) mahārājo rūpam indrasya dhārayan |
snuṣāṃ tāṃ pratyagṛhṇīta kuntīputro yudhiṣṭhiraḥ |
pari+++++/// (fol. 175v1-5)
Microfilm Details
Reel No. B 18-24
Date of Filming: 07-09-1970
Exposures:
Used Copy: Kathmandu (scan)
Type of Film: positive
Remarks:
Catalogued by AM
Date: 26-09-2011
