B 250-4 Mahābhārata
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Filmed in: B 250/4
Title: Mahābhārata
Dimensions: 44 x 13.5 cm x 134 folios
Material: paper?
Condition: damaged
Scripts: Devanagari
Languages: Sanskrit
Subjects: Mahābhārata
Date:
Acc No.: NAK 1/1007
Remarks: Bhīṣmaparvan
Reel No. B 250-4 Inventory No. 31279
Title Mahābhārata
Remarks The text covered is the Bhīṣmaparvan.
Author attributed to Vyāsa
Subject Mahābhārata
Language Sanskrit
Manuscript Details
Script Devanagari
Material paper
State incomplete; available folios: 1–23, 1–111
Size 44.0 x 13.5 cm
Folios 134
Lines per Folio 9–13
Foliation The MS contains two foliations:
Fols. 1–23 figures on the verso, in the middle left-hand and right-hand margins (the abbreviation bhīṣma. is written in the upper left-hand margin)
Fols. 1–111 figures on the verso, in the upper left-hand margin under the abbreviation bhīṣma. and in the extreme lower right-hand margin
Date of Copying The date mentioned in the colophon, obviously incorrect, is ŚS 16.
Place of Deposit NAK
Accession No. 1/1007
Manuscript Features
The first foliation contains adhyāyas 1–22. Fol. 23 covers adhyāya 23.1–. The second foliation starts at adhyāya 41. (Poona edition) and runs up to the end of the parvan.
Excerpts
Beginning
oṃ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya || ||
śrīgaṇādhipataye namaḥ || ||
nārāyaṇaṃ namaskṛtyaṃ(!) naraṃ caiva narottamaṃ ||
devīṃ sarasvatīṃ vyāsaṃ tato jayam udīrayet || 1 ||
|| janamejaya uvāca || ||
kathaṃ yuyudhire vīrāḥ kurupāṃḍavasomakāḥ ||
parthivāś ca mahābhāgā nanādeśasamāgatāḥ ||
|| vaiśam ||
tathā yuyudhire virāḥ kurupāṃḍavasomakāḥ ||
kurukṣetre tapaḥkṣetre śṛṇu tat pṛthivīpate ||
avatīryya kurukṣetraṃ pāṃḍavāḥ sahasomakāḥ ||
kauravān abhyavarttanta jīgīṣaṃto mahābalāḥ ||
vedādhyayanasampannāḥ sarve yuddhābhinaṃdinaḥ ||
āśa(!)saṃto jayaṃ yuddhe bāṃdhavābhimukhā reṇe ||
abhiyāya durādharṣā dhārttarāṣṭrasya vāhinīṃ ||
prāṅmukhāḥ paścime bhāge nāvasanta sasainaikāḥ || (fol. 1v1–5, 1st foliation)
<<<Give beginning of 2nd foliation.>>>
End
<<<Give end of 1st foliation.>>>
|| bhīṣma uvāca || ||
na ce(!) chakyam avasraṣṭuṃ vairam etat sudāruṇam ||
anujānāmi karṇa tvāṃ yudhyasva svargakāmyayā ||
nirmanyur gatasaṃrabdhaḥ(!) kṛtavarmmā raṇais saha ||
yathāśakti(!) yathotsāhaṃ satāṃ vṛtteṣu vṛttavān ||
ahaṃ tvām anujānāmi yad icha(!)si tad āpnuhi ||
kṣatradharmmajitā(!) llokān avāpsyasi na saṃśayaḥ ||
yudhyasva nirahaṃkāro balavīryyavyapāśrayaḥ ||
dharmmād hi yuddhācchreyo[’]nyat kṣatriyasya na vidyate ||
praśaṃsā(!) hi kṛto yatnaḥ samuhān suciraṃ mayā ||
na caiva śaṃkitaḥ karttuṃ karṇa satyaṃ bravīmi te ||
|| saṃjaya uvāca || ||
ity uktavati gāṃgeye abhivādya prarudya ca |
rādheyo ratham āruhya prāyāt tava sutaṃ prati || || (fol. 111r7–12)
Colophon
iti śrīmahābhārate śatasāhasryāṃ saṃhitāyāṃ vaiyāśikyāṃ bhīṣmaparvvaṇi bhīṣmakarṇasaṃvādaḥ samāptaḥ || ||
śubham astu ○
śrīśāke 16 māse kārttike ravitiṣyakṛṣṇasaptamyāṃ likhitam idaṃ pustakam ||
śrīrāmakṛṣṇārppaṇam astu ||
śivārppaṇam astu || || (fol. 111r12–13)
Microfilm Details
Reel No. B 250/4
Date of Filming 27-03-1972
Exposures 139
Used Copy Kathmandu
Type of Film positive
Remarks Fols. 22v–23r and 23v–24r are in reverse order.
Catalogued by RK
Date 28-01-2008
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