A 1116-1 Mahābhārata

Manuscript culture infobox

Filmed in: A 1116/1
Title: Mahābhārata
Dimensions: 25.3 x 12.6 cm x 88 folios
Material: paper?
Condition: damaged
Scripts: Devanagari
Languages: Sanskrit
Subjects: Mahābhārata
Date:
Acc No.: NAK 6/2091
Remarks: Āśvamedhikaparvan

Reel No. A 1116-1 Inventory No. 97350

Title Mahābhārata

Remarks MS holds the chapter Āśvamedhikaparvan

Subject Mahābhārata

Language Sanskrit

Manuscript Details

Script Devanagari

Material paper

State incomplete, available fols are: 321r–408r, damaged in the left margin of fol. 408r,

Size 25.3.x 12.6 cm

Folios 88

Lines per Folio 7

Foliation figures in the upper left-hand margin under the abbreviation ā. śva. and in the lower right-hand margin under the word rāmaḥ on the verso

Scribe Vāṇīvilāsavarmā

Date of Copying SAM (VS) 1875

Place of Deposit NAK

Accession No. 6/2091

Manuscript Features

MS holds Āśvamedhikaparvan of the Mahābhārata.

Excerpts

Beginning

-caritraṃ vismayapradaṃ ||

candrahāsasya nṛpater vistareṇa yathātathaṃ ||

nārada uvāca (2)||

samayaḥ kīdṛśaḥ pārtha hayau mārgacyutau tava ||

cintāturo dharmarājo vidyate ha(3)stināpure ||

arjjuna uvāca ||

ubhayoḥ senayor madhye kathaṃ kṛṣṇamukhād ahaṃ ||

(4) aśrauṣaṃ svasthacitta (!) san kurukṣetre kathāmṛtaṃ || (fol. 321r1–4)

End

atha te vanavāsākhyaṃ parvarājaṃ śṛṇuṣva tat ||

va(5)samāneṣu(!) pārtheṣu kuṃtyā saha gajāhvaye ||

varṣāṇi nava jātāni sukhena bharatarṣabha ||

(6) yo gośataṃ kanakaśṛṃgamayaṃ dadāti

viprāya vedaviduṣe ca bahuśrutāya ||

ekāṃ (7) ca bhāratakathāṃ śṛṇuyāt samagraṃ(!)

tulyaṃ phalaṃ bhavati tasya ca tasya caiva ||

māṅgalyaṃ ma '/// (1) māpnoti ihaloke paratra ca || || 66 || (fol. 407v4–7, 408r1)

Colophon

iti śrī/// (2)jaiminisaṃhitāyāṃ ṣaṭsāhasryāṃ āśvamedhikaṃ samā///(3) samvat 1875 sāla miti vaiśākhaśuklatṛtiyāyā (!) tithau mṛga///(4) (bh)ṛguvāsare lābhavelāyāṃ liṣitam śrīvāṇivilāsaśavārmma///(!)(5)

-na pṛṣtikaṭigrīvā badhva(!)muṣṭir adhomukhaṃ ||

kaṣṭena likhitaṃ graṃ///(6)

yādṛśaṃ pustakaṃ dṛṣṭā tādṛśaṃ likhitaṃ mayā ||

yadi śuddhaṃ/// (7)ta ||     || śubham astu || śrīr astu ||     ||     ||     ||     ||     ||  ||   || (fol. 408r1–7)

Microfilm Details

Reel No. A 1116/1

Date of Filming 17-07-1986

Exposures 91

Used Copy Kathmandu

Type of Film positive

Catalogued by MS

Date 11-12-2007

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