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| title = Brahmapurāṇa
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| languages = [[Sanskrit language|Sanskrit]]
| subjects = [[Subject Purāṇa|Purāṇa]]
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| acc no = NAK 4/756
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'''Reel No.''' B 5/9–B 6/1
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'''Title''' Brahmapurāṇa

'''Remarks''' An alternative title is Ādipurāṇa.

'''Subject''' Purāṇa

'''Language''' Sanskrit

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== Manuscript Details ==

'''Script''' Maithili

'''Material''' palm-leaf

'''State''' complete

'''Size''' 35.0 x 5.5 cm

'''Binding Hole''' 1, in the middle

'''Folios''' 378

'''Lines per Folio''' 5

'''Foliation''' figures in the middle left-hand margin next to the word śrī of the verso

'''Scribe''' ?vāviṣṇupati

'''Date of Copying''' LS 376

'''Place of Copying''' (acauśī) grāma???

'''Place of Deposit''' NAK

'''Accession No. ''' 4/756

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== Manuscript Features ==

The left-hand margin of fols. 253v–258r is damaged with considerable loss of the text.

A folio, which is in between fols. 203 and 204, is not foliated.

The figure 8 has been written instead of 7 on fols. 371 onwards.

There are two exposures of fols. 79v–80r, 104v–105r, 110v–111r, 137v–138r and 370v–371r.
 
== Excerpts ==

=== Beginning ===


❖ oṁ namo nārāyaṇāya ||

yasmāt sarvvam idaṃ prapañcarahitaṃ māyājagaj jāyate | <br>
yasmiṃs tiṣṭhati yāti cāntasamaye kalpānukalpe punaḥ | <br>
yaṃ dhyātvā munayaḥ prapañcarahitaṃ vindanti mokṣe dhruvaṃ <br>
taṃ vande  puruṣottamākhyam amalaṃ nityaṃ vibhuṃ niścalam |

yaṃ dhyāyanti budhāḥ samādhisamaye śuddhaṃ viyatsannibhaṃ <br>
nityānandamayaṃ prasannam amalaṃ sarvveśvaraṃ nirguṇaṃ | <br>
vyaktāvyaktaparaṃ prapañcarahitaṃ jñānaikagamyaprabhuṃ <br>
taṃ saṃsāravināśahetum ajaraṃ vande hariṃ muktidaṃ ||

suprā(!)ṇyanaimiṣāraṇye pavitre sumanohare | <br>
nānāmunijanākīrṇṇe nānāpuṣpopaśobhite |

saralaiḥ karṇṇikāraiś ca palāśair ddhavakhādiraiḥ | <br>
āmrajambūkapitthaiś ca nyagrodhair devadārubhiḥ |

aśvatthaiḥ pārijātaiś candanāgurupāṭalaiḥ | <br>
saptaparṇṇiś ca punnāgaiḥ panasair nāgakesaraiḥ |

śālais tālais tamālaiś ca nālikelais tathārjunaiḥ | <br>
anyaiś ca bahubhir vṛkṣaiś campakādaiś ca śobhite | (fol. 1v1–5)

=== End ===

matprasādena bharttāraṃ labdhvā tu puruṣottamaṃ | <br>
macchāpopahatāḥ sarvā dasyuhastaṃ gamiṣyatha ||

vyāsa uvāca ||

ity udīritam ākarṇṇya munis tābhiḥ prasāditaḥ | <br>
punaḥ surendralokam vai prāha bhūyo gamiṣyatha |

evaṃ tasya muneḥ śāpād aṣṭāvakrasya keśavaṃ | <br>
bharttāraṃ prāpya tāḥ prāptā dasyuhastaṃ varāṅganāḥ |

tat tvayā nātra karttavyaḥ śoko [ʼ]lpo [ʼ]pi hi pāṇḍava | <br>
⟪evan tasya muneḥ śāpā⟫ tenaivākhilanāthena saṃharttavyā bhavādṛśāḥ |

tasmāt tvayā naravyāghra jñātvaitad bhātṛbhiḥ saha | <br>
parityajyākhilaṃ tatra gantavyaṃ tapasevanaṃ |

tad gaccha dharmarājāya vicintaitad vaco mama | <br>
paraśvo bhātṛbhiḥ sārddhaṃ gatiṃ vīra pathā kuru |

vyāsa uvāca ||

ity ukto pi hi pārthābhyāṃ yam āryāñ ca mahārjunam | <br>
dṛṣṭañ caivātmabhūtañ ca kathayan(!) tad aśeṣataḥ | 

mama vākyañ ca tat sarvve śrutvārjunasamīritam <br>
rājye parīkṣitaṃ kṛtvā yayuḥ pāṇḍusutā vanaṃ ||

ity evaṃ vo muniśreṣṭhāḥ vistareṇa mayoditaṃ | <br>
jātasya yad yadorvaṃśe vāsudevasay ceṣṭitam | (fol. 377r1–377v3)

=== Colophon ===

ityādi brahmapurāṇe kṛṣṇacaritaṃ samāptam | samāptañcādipurāṇam iti || śubham astu śrīr astu (mairujyārastu) lasaṃ 376 āśvinakṛṣṇāṣṭamyāṃ ravai (acauśī) grāmāvasthitena (‥)vāviṣṇupatinātiśrameṇālekhi pustakam iti ||
kāraṃ kāram alaukikādbhutam idaṃ māyāvaśad saṃharan
hāraṃ hāram pap⟨i⟩[ī]ndrajālam iva yaḥ kurvvan jagat krīḍati |

tan devaṃ niravayaṃ (ha sphurad abhivyā) (fol. 377v3–5)

== Microfilm Details ==

'''Reel No. ''' B 5/9–B 6/1

'''Date of Filming''' not mentioned

'''Exposures''' 380

'''Used Copy''' Kathmandu

'''Type of Film''' positive

'''Remarks''' incomplete filming on A 9/5

'''Catalogued by''' NK

'''Date''' 29-06-2011
 
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