A 302-4 Mahābhārata

Manuscript culture infobox

Filmed in: A 302/4
Title: Mahābhārata
Dimensions: 38 x 15.5 cm x 318 folios
Material: paper?
Condition: complete
Scripts: Devanagari
Languages: Nepali; Sanskrit
Subjects: Mahābhārata
Date:
Acc No.: NAK 2/173
Remarks: folio number uncertain; Udyogaparvan w. Nepali translation

Reel No. A 302-4 Inventory No. 31267

Title Mahābhārata and Mahābhārataṭīkā

Remarks The text covered is part of the Udyogaparvan and a Nepali commentary on it.

Author attributed to Vyāsa

Subject Mahābhārata

Language Sanskrit

Manuscript Details

Script Devanagari

Material paper

State complete

Size 38.0 x 15.5 cm

Folios 318

Lines per Folio 9–11

Foliation figures in the upper left-hand margin under the abbreviation bhā. u. bha. and in the lower right-hand margin under the word rāmaḥ on the verso

Place of Deposit NAK

Accession No. 2/173

Manuscript Features

The text starts from the 70^th adhyāya and runs up to the end of the 144^th adhyāya of Udyogaparvan. Those adhyāyas are known as Bhagavadyāna(upa)parvan and Karṇopanivāda(upa)parvan (POONA EDITION).

Excerpts

«Beginning of the root text:»

vaiśaṃpāyana uvāca ||

saṃjaye pratiyāte tu dharmarājo yudhiṣṭhiraḥ ||

abhyabhāṣata dāśārham ṛṣabhaṃ sarvasātvatām || 1 ||

ayaṃ sa kālaḥ saṃprāpto mitrāṇāṃ mitravatsala ||

na ca tvad anyaṃ paśyāmi yo na āpatsu tārayet || 2 ||

tvāṃ hi mādhavam āśritya nirbhayā moghadarpitam ||

dhārttarāṣṭraṃ sahāmātyaṃ svayaṃ samanuyuṃkṣmahe || 3 ||

yathā hi sarvāsv āpatsu pāsi vṛṣṇīn arindama ||

kariṣyāmi hi tat sarvaṃ yat tvaṃ vakṣyasi bhārata || 4 || 4 || 4 ||     || (fol. 1v5–8)

«Beginning of the commentary:»

śrīgaṇeśāya namaḥ ||

vaiśampāyana muni jo chan rājā janamejayasita kahanchan || he janamejaya dhṛtarāṣṭra rājāle paṭhāyākā saṃjayale rājā yudhiṣṭḥirasita bheṭ gari phiryā pachi dharmakā putra rājā yudhiṣṭḥira jo chan sātva(!)vaṃśamā śreṣṭha bhayākā śrīkṛṣṇasita viṃti garna lāgyā || 1 || iṣṭamitramā prīti rāṣanyā bhayākā he śrīkṛṣṇa mitrako māyā pāinyā yo belā cha || āpattimā hāmro uddhāra garnyā timi(!)deṣi arko ma kohi deṣtina || 2 || (fol. 1v1–4)

«End of the root text:»

na te jātu naśiṣyaṃti putrāḥ paṃca yaśasvini ||

nirarjunāḥ sakarṇā vā sārjunā vā hate mayi || 23 ||

iti karṇavacaḥ śrutvā kuṃtī duḥkhāt pravepatī ||

uvāca putram āśliṣya karṇaṃ dhairyād akaṃpanaṃ || 24 ||

evaṃ vai bhāvyam etena kṣayaṃ yāsyaṃti kauravāḥ ||

yathā tvaṃ bhāṣase karṇa daivaṃ tu balavattaraṃ || 25 ||

tvayā caturṇāṃ bhrātṝṇāṃ abhayaṃ śatrukarśana ||

dattaṃ tat pratijānīhi saṃgarapratimocanaṃ || 26 ||

anāmayaṃ svasti ceti pṛthātho karṇam abravīt ||

tāṃ karṇo tha tathety uktvā tatas tau jagmatuḥ pṛthak || 27 ||     ||     ||     || (fol. 317v5–7 and 318r4–6)

«End of the commentary:»

he mahāvalī karṇa āphnā bhāī janā cāralāī timile abhayadāna diyau maile pāñā cāra janā putra ta vāṃcyā bhanī maile cihnyā āphule garyākā pratijñākana saṃgrāmaviṣe timi viśra(!)nyā chainau || 26 || bhanī etī kurā garī karṇalāī kuṃtīle aneka prakārakā āśīrvāda diin karṇale panī kaunai kurāko saṃdeha māṃnu pardaina kṣatriya dharma estai krūra cha bhanyā tāṃhāpachī kuṃtī ra karṇa ī dui janā paraspara vidā bhai āphnā ghara calyā bhani vaiśaṃpāyana muni janmejayaḥ rājācheu kahaṃdā bhayā || 27 ||     ||     || (fol. 318r1–3 and 7–8)

«Colophon of the root text:»

ity udyoge karṇasamāgame adhyāyaḥ samāptaḥ ||    || 146 ||     ||      || śūbham ||     || (fol. 318r6)

«Colophon of the commentary:»

yo mahābhāratakā udyogaparvamā kuṃtīko ra karṇako saṃvāda bhayāko pacahattarī adhyāya samāpta bhayo || kuṃtīko ra karṇako saṃvāda pani samāpta bhayo ||    ||

śūbham astu sarvadā ||     ||     || (fol. 318r8–9)

Microfilm Details

Reel No. A 302/4

Date of Filming 17-03-1972

Exposures 333

Used Copy Kathmandu

Type of Film positive

Remarks two exposures of the fols. 4v–5r, 19v–20r, 34v–35r, 131v–133r, 146v–147r, 213v–214r, 237v–238r and 246v–247r

Catalogued by RK

Date 04-12-2007

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