A 1343-6 Mahābhārata

Manuscript culture infobox

Filmed in: A 1343/6
Title: Mahābhārata
Dimensions: 38.7 x 15.3 cm x 83 folios
Material: paper?
Condition: damaged
Scripts: Devanagari
Languages: Sanskrit
Subjects: Mahābhārata
Date: ŚS 1693
Acc No.: NAK 1/1032
Remarks: Āśvamedhikaparvan

Reel No. A 1343-6 Inventory No. 97351

Title Mahābhārata

Remarks The text covered is Āśvamedhakaparvan.

Author attributed to Vyāsa

Subject Mahābhārata

Language Sanskrit

Manuscript Details

Script Devanagari

Material paper

State incomplete, damaged; the lower right-hand margin of verso and upper right-hand margin of recto are damaged with loss of some letters

Size 38.7 x 15.3 cm

Folios 83

Lines per Folio 11

Foliation figures in the upper left-hand margin under the abbreviation ā. me. on the verso

Scribe Rāmabhadra

Date of Copying ŚS 1693

Place of Copying Jitāgrāma

Place of Deposit NAK

Accession No. 1/1032

Manuscript Features

Excerpts

Beginning

śrīrāmāya namaḥ ||     ||

vaiśam ||

kṛtodakaṃ tu rājānaṃ dhṛtarāṣṭraṃ yudhiṣṭhiraḥ

puraskṛtya mahābāhur uttatārākuleṃdriyaḥ

uttīrya tu mahābāhur vāṣpavyākulalocanaḥ

papāta tīre gaṃgāyā vyādhaviddha iva dvipaḥ

taṃ sīdamānaṃ jagrāha bhīmaḥ kṛṣṇena coditaḥ

maivam ity abravīc cainaṃ kṛṣṇaḥ parabalārdanaḥ

tam ārttaṃ patitaṃ (bhū)mau niśvasaṃtaṃ punaḥ punaḥ

dadṛśuḥ pāṃḍavā rājan dharmātmānaṃ yudhiṣṭhiraṃ (fol. 1v1–3)

End

taiś coktaṃ yajñiyān deśān dharmmāraṇyaṃ tathaiva ca

jugupsamāno dhāvan sataṃ yajñaṃ samupāsadat

dharmaputram athākṣipya śaktuprasthena tena saḥ

muktaḥ śāpāt tataḥ krodho dharmo hy āsīd yudhiṣthiraḥ

evam etat tadā vṛttaṃ yajñe tasya mahātmana(!)

paśyatāṃ cāpi nas tatra nakulo tarhinas<ref name="ftn1">^{nakulo ʼntarhitas}</ref> tadā ||     || (fol. 83r5–8)

Colophon

iti śrīmahābhārate śatasāhasryāṃ saṃhitāyāṃ vaiyāsa(!)kyāṃ āśvamedhike parvaṇi saktaprasthopākhyānaṃ samāptaṃ ||     ||

śrīśāke 1693 māse7 vāre5 nakṣatre8 tihau3 jitāgrāme śrīśrīrājapusta(!) kalikhitaṃ rāmabhadradvija(!) su(!)bham astu ||     ||

rāmakṛṣṇa || yādri(!)śaṃ pustakaṃ ⟪‥⟫ (fol. 83r8–10)

Microfilm Details

Reel No. A 1343/6

Date of Filming 29-09-1988

Exposures 88

Used Copy Kathmandu

Type of Film positive

Remarks fols. 1v–2r, 8v–9r, 15v–16r, 25v–26r, 32v–33r, 44v–45r, 50v–51r, 56v–57r, 59v–60r, 62v–63r, 64v–65r, 69v–70r are out of focus

Catalogued by RK

Date 20-03-2008

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