B 264-5 Mahābhārata

Manuscript culture infobox

Filmed in: B 264/5
Title: Mahābhārata
Dimensions: 40 x 16 cm x 18 folios
Material: paper?
Condition: complete
Scripts: Devanagari
Languages: Sanskrit
Subjects: Mahābhārata
Date: ŚS 1693
Acc No.: NAK 1/971
Remarks: Strīparvan

Reel No. B 264-5 Inventory No. 31351

Title Mahābhārata

Remarks The text covered is Strīparvan.

Author attributed to Vyāsa

Subject Mahābhārata

Language Sanskrit

Manuscript Details

Script Devanagari

Material paper

State complete

Size 40.0 x 16.0 cm

Folios 18

Lines per Folio 9–11

Foliation figures in the upper left-hand margin under the abbreviation strī. pa. and in the lowe right-hand margin under the word rāma on the verso

Scribe Rāmabhadra

Date of Copying SAM (ŚS) 1693

Place of Deposit NAK

Accession No. 1/971

Manuscript Features

strīparva

Excerpts

Beginning

||     || śrīrāmāya namaḥ

nārāyaṇaṃ namaskṛtya naraṃ caiva narottamaṃ

devīṃ sarasvatīṃ vyāsaṃ tato jayam udīrayet

janamejaya uvāca

gate bhagavati vyāse dhṛtarāṣṭro ṃbikāsutaḥ

kim aceṣṭhata viprarṣe tan me vyākhyātum arhasi

tathaiva kauravo rājā dharmaputro mahāmanāḥ

kṛpaprabhṛtayaś caiva kim akurvaṃta te trayaḥ

aśvas(!)thāmnaḥ śrutaṃ karma śāpaś cānyonyakāritaḥ

vṛttāṃtam aṃtaraṃ(!) brūhi yad abhāṣata saṃjayaḥ

vaiśaṃ

hate duryodhane caiva hate sainye ca sarvaśaḥ

saṃjayo vigataprajño dhṛtarāṣṭram upasthitaḥ (fol. 1v1–4)

End

evaṃ vilapya bahulaṃ dharmarājo yudhiṣthiraḥ

vinadaṃ duḥkhito rājā cakārāsyodakaṃ prabhuḥ

tato vineduḥ sahasā striyas tāḥ khalu sarvaśaḥ

abhito yāḥ sthitās tatra tasminn udakakarmaṇI

tata ānāyayāmāsa karṇasya saparicchadaḥ

striyaḥ kurupatir dhīmān bhrātuḥ premṇā yudhiṣṭhiraḥ

sa tābhiḥ saha dharmātmā pretakṛtyam ataṃ(!)na(!)raṃ

kṛtvā tu tāvad gaṃgāyāḥ salilād ākuleṃdriyaḥ

bhrātṛbhiḥ sahitaḥ sarvai(!) gaṃgātīram upāviśat ||     || (fol. 17v9–18r3)

Colophon

iti śrīmahābhārate śatasāhasryāṃ saṃhitāyāṃ vaiyāsa(!)kyāṃ strīparva samāptim agamat ||     ||

śrīśāke 1693 māse (9) vā 7 ||     ||     ||

jijā me śrīśrīrājapustakaṃ likhitaṃ rāmabhadra(dbuja)(!) ||   ||   ||   ||   ||   ||   ||   ||   ||   ||   || rāmakṛṣṇagoviṃdaḥ rāma rāma (fol. 18r3–5)

Microfilm Details

Reel No. B 264/5

Date of Filming 05-04-1972

Exposures 21

Used Copy Kathmandu

Type of Film positive

Catalogued by RK

Date 27-12-2007

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