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| filmed in = B 254/4
| title = Mahābhārata
| dimensions = 30 x 12.5 cm x 240 folios
| material = paper?
| condition = complete
| scripts = [[Devanagari script|Devanagari]]
| languages = [[Sanskrit language|Sanskrit]]
| subjects = [[Subject Mahābhārata|Mahābhārata]]
| date = [[SAM]] 1689
| acc no = NAK 5/2696
| remarks = Śāntiparvan, Mokṣadharma; continues to B 255/1
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'''Reel No.''' B 254/4 to B 255/1

'''Inventory No.''' 31393

'''Title''' Mahābhārata(Śāntiparvan)

'''Remarks''' 

'''Author''' attributed to Vyāsa

'''Subject''' Mahābhārata

'''Language''' Sanskrit

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== Manuscript Details ==
 
'''Script''' Devanagari

'''Material''' paper

'''State''' complete

'''Size''' 30 x 12.5 cm

'''Binding Hole(s)''' 

'''Folios''' 240

'''Lines per Page''' 10

'''Foliation''' figures on the verso; in the upper left-hand margin under the abbreviation ''mokṣa'' and in the lower right-hand margin under the word ''rāma''

'''Scribe''' Balabhadra

'''Date of Copying''' SAM 1689

'''Place of Copying''' Garttapāla, Bhagavatīpura

'''King'''

'''Donor''' Bhagavatīdāsa

'''Owner/Deliverer'''

'''Place of Deposit''' NAK

'''Accession No.''' 5/2696

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== Manuscript Features ==

*The MS contains considerable marginal notes.

*There are two exposures of fols. 3v–4r, 32v–43r and 107v–108r.
 
== Excerpts ==
 
=== Beginning ===


|| śrīgaṇeśāya namaḥ ||       ||

nārāyaṇaṃ namaskṛtya naraṃ caiva narottamaṃ |

devīṃ sa<nowiki>[[</nowiki>rasvatīṃ<nowiki>]]</nowiki> caiva tato jayam udīrayet ||

(yudhiṣṭhira uvāca) ||      ||

dharmmāḥ pitāmahenoktā rājadharmmāśritāḥ śubhāḥ |

dharmmam āśr⟪i⟫amiṇāṃ śreṣṭhaṃ vaktum arhasi pārthiva ||    ||


bhīṣma uvāca ||


sarvvatra vihito dharmmaḥ svargyaḥ pretyatapaḥphalaṃ |

bahudvārasya dharmmasya nehāsti viphalā kriyā |


yasmin yasmiṃs tu viṣaye yo yo yāti viniścayaṃ |

satam evābhijānāti nānyaṃ bharatasattama | (fol. 1v1–4)



=== End ===


yadā ca mama rāmeṇa yuddham āsīt sudāruṇaṃ |

vasubhiś ca tadā rājan katheyaṃ kathitā mama |


pṛcchyamānāya tattvena mayā ca cottamā tava |

ketheyaṃ kathitā puṇyā dharmyā dharmmabhṛtā vara |


yad ayaṃ paramo dharmmo yan māṃ pṛcchasi bhārata |

āsīd vi(!)pro hy anākāṃkṣī dharmmārthakaraṇe nēpa |


sa ca kila kṛtaniścayo dvijo bhujaga(pa)tipraddeśitātmakṛtyaḥ |
yamaniyamasaho vānāntaraṃ parigaṇitoṃchaśilāśanaḥ praviṣṭaḥ | (fol. 239v9–240r2)



=== Colophon ===


iti śrīmahābhārate śatasāhasryāṃ saṃhitāyāṃ vaiyāśikyāṃ śāntiparvvaṇi mokṣadharmeṣūṃchhavṛtyupākhyānaṃ samāptam [[187]] | śubham |

navāṣṭarasacaṃdraiś ca śodhite ʼbde prajāpatau ||

pauṣe māsi śite pakṣe caturddaśyāṃ raver dine ||


garttapāle śubhe deśe bhagavatyāḥ pure tathā ||


lekhāyitaṃ pustakam idaṃ bhagavatīdāśena hi likhitaṃ balabhadreṇa viṣṇur me prīyatām iti ||      || rāma || (fol. 240r2–5)
 
== Microfilm Details ==

'''Reel No.''' B 254/4 to B 255/1

'''Date of Filming''' 29-03-1972

'''Exposures''' 45 + 214 = 255

'''Used Copy''' Kathmandu

'''Type of Film''' positive

'''Remarks''' 

'''Catalogued by''' BK/RK

'''Date''' 10-02-2012
 
'''Bibliography''' 

[[Category:Newly created catalogue entry]]
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[[Category:Needing revisions]]
[[Category:Catalogued manuscripts]]

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