B 5-5 Bṛhannāradīyapurāṇa
Manuscript culture infobox
Filmed in: B 5/5
Title: Bṛhannāradīyapurāṇa
Dimensions: 36 x 5.5 cm x 259 folios
Material: palm-leaf
Condition:
Scripts: Maithili
Languages: Sanskrit
Subjects: Purāṇa
Date: LS 395
Acc No.: NAK 5/748
Remarks:
Reel No. B 5/5
Title Bṛhannāradῑyapurāṇa
Subject Purāṇa
Language Sanskrit
Manuscript Details
Script Maithili
Material palm-leaf
State slightly damaged
Size 5.5 x 36.0 cm
Binding Hole 1, in the centre
Folios 259
Lines per Folio 5
Foliation figures in the left margin of the verso and, by a later hand, in the right margin of the verso
Scribe: Mukundaśarman
Date of Copying LS 395 (~ 1275 AD)
Place of Copying: Makurīgrāma
Place of Deposit NAK
Accession No. 5-748
Manuscript Features
Writing is rubbed off on many pages. In the microfilm those folios are difficult to read, in the original manuscript it might be better.
At the end of the manuscript there is a sūcīpattra.
Excerpts
Beginning
prāñjalir vvākyam āhedaṃ vinayāvanataḥ śudhīḥ || ||
śaunaka uvāca ||
āste siddhāśrame puṇye sūtaḥ paurāṇikottamaḥ |
ya......r bbahuvidhair vviśvarūpaṃ janārddanaṃ |
sa etad akhilaṃ vetti vyāsaśiṣyo yato muniḥ |
purāṇasaṃhitāvaktā śānto vai romaharṣaṇiḥ(!) |
yuge yuge lpakāladharmmā nirīkṣya madhusūdanaḥ |
veda vyāsasvarūpeṇa vedabhāgaṃ karoti vai |
veda vyāso muniḥ s[[ā]]kṣān nārāyaṇa iti dvijāḥ | (fol. 2v1-4)
Sub-Colophons
iti śrībṛhannāradīyapurāṇe prathamo dhyāyaḥ || || (fol. 8r2-3)
iti śrībṛhannāradīyapurāṇe tṛtīyo dhyāyaḥ || || (fol. 18r3)
etc. etc.
iti śrībṛhannāradīye ṣaṭtriṃśo dhyāyaḥ || || (fol. 242r3)
iti śrībṛhannāradīye saptatriṃśo dhyāyaḥ || || (fol. 250r5)
End
etat pavitram ārogyaṃ na vācyan du(!)kṛtātmanām ||
nīcāsanagatāḥ sarvve śṛṇuyād idam uttamam |
etatpurāṇaśravaṇam ihāmutrasukhapradam |
vadatāṃ śṛṇvatāṃ sadyaḥ sarvvapāpapraṇāsanam |
saṅgād vā yadi vā mohād ye śṛṇvantīdam uttamam |
te sarvvapāpanirmmuktā yāsyanti paramaṅ gatim || (fol. 259r2-4)
Colophon
iti śrībṛhannāradīyapurāṇe aṣṭatriṃśo dhyāyaḥ samāptaḥ || || la saṃ 395 caitrabadi saptamyāṃ budhe (makurī)grāme sudācārthaṃ(?) phaladahasaṃ sudu(?)śrīmukundaśarmmaṇā likhitaiṣā bṛhannāradīyapustīti || || rāmāya rāmabhadrāya rāmacandrāya vedhase | raghuṇāthāya(!) nāthāya sītāyāḥ pataye namaḥ || ○ || (fol. 259r4-5)
Microfilm Details
Reel No. B 5/5
Date of Filming not recorded
Used Copy Berlin
Type of Film negative
Remarks The first folio is filmed with the index card on top of it and therefore illegibel. The whole microfilm is overexposed. A smaller number of exposures are completely unfocused.
Catalogued by AM
Date 18-06-2013
