A 1343-10 Mahābhārata
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Manuscript culture infobox
Filmed in: A 1343/10
Title: Mahābhārata
Dimensions: 43 x 19.5 cm x 136 folios
Material: paper?
Condition:
Scripts: Devanagari
Languages: Sanskrit
Subjects: Mahābhārata
Date:
Acc No.: NAK 1/942
Remarks: Ādiparvan
Reel No. A 1343-10 Inventory No. 97309
Title Mahābhārata
Remarks The text covered is part of the Ādiparvan.
Author attributed to Vyāsa
Subject Mahābhārata
Language Sanskrit
Manuscript Details
Script Devanagari
Material Nepali paper
State incomplete; available folios: 1–63 (64), 65–137
Size 43.0 x 19.5 cm
Folios 137
Lines per Folio 17
Foliation figures on the verso, in the upper left-hand margin under the abbreviation bhā. and in the lower right-hand margin under the word rāmaḥ
The folio number 64 has not been assigned, but the text is continuous. In the lower right-hand margin of fol. 63v, the figure 64 is written just below the figure 63 in the same hand to draw attention to the missing folio number.
Place of Deposit NAK
Accession No. 1/942
Manuscript Features
The text begins from the very beginning and runs up to the 5th letter of the 4th pāda of the v. 14 of the 186th adhyāya of the Parvan (Poona Edition).
Excerpts
Beginning
❖ śrīgaṇeśāya namaḥ ||
śrīvāsudevāya namaḥ ||
nārāyaṇaṃ namaskṛtya, naraṃ caiva narottamaṃ |
devīṃ sarasvatīñ caiva, tato jayam udīrayet ||
pārāśaryyavacaḥ sarojam amalaṃ gītārthagandhotkaṭaṃ,
nānākhyānakakesaraṃ harikathā sambodhanād bodhitaṃ ||
loke sajjanaṣaṭpadair aharahaḥ pepīyamānaṃ mudā,
bhūyād bhāratapaṅkajaṃ kalimalapradhvaṃsi vaḥ śreyase ||
jayati parāśarasūnuḥ satyavatīhṛdayanandano vyāsaḥ ||
yasyāsyakamalagalitaṃ, vāṅmayam amṛtaṃ jagat pibati ||
namaḥ pitāmahāya ||
namaḥ prajāpatibhyaḥ ||
oṃ kṛṣṇadvaipāyanāya namaḥ ||
namaḥ sarvvavighnavināśaketubhyaḥ ||
vyāsasyāsīt purā śiṣyaḥ prakhyāto lomaharṣaṇaḥ |
putrosyo graśravā nāma, sautiḥ paurāṇiko mahān ||
puṇye (tu) naimiṣāraṇye, yajatas (tu) mahātmanaḥ |
śaunakasya kulapateḥ satre dvādaśavārṣike ||
samāsīnān abhyagaccha,d brahmarṣīn śaṃsitavratān |
vinayāvanato bhūtvā, kadācit sūtanaṃdanaḥ || (fol. 1v1–6)
End
te tra vīrāḥ paramāsaneṣu,
sapādapīṭheṣu viśaṃkamānāḥ
yathāʼnupūrvvaṃ viviśur nnarāgryā,s
tathā mahārheṣu na vismayantaḥ
uccāvacaṃ pārthivabhojanīyaṃ,
pātrīṣu jāmbūnadarājatīṣu
dāsāś ca dāsyaś ca sumṛṣṭaveśāḥ
saṃbhojakāś cāpy apajahur anyaṃ
te tatra bhuktvā puruṣapravīrā,
yathānnakāmaṃ subhṛśaṃ pratītāḥ
utkramya sarvvāṇi vasūni tatra,
sāṃgrāmikānyā- /// (fol. 137v15–17)
«Sub-colophon:»
iti mahābhārate śatasāhasryāṃ saṃhitāyāṃ vaiyāsikyām ādiparvvaṇi draupadīsvayaṃvare 198 (fol. 137v4–5)
Colophon
Microfilm Details
Reel No. A 1343/10
Date of Filming 29-09-1988
Exposures 140
Used Copy Kathmandu
Type of Film positive
Remarks two exposures of fols. 8v–9r
Catalogued by RK
Date 18-03-2008
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