A 27-6 Mahābhārata
Manuscript culture infobox
Filmed in: A 27/6
Title: Mahābhārata
Dimensions: 56 x 6 cm x 330 folios
Material: palm-leaf
Condition:
Scripts: Maithili
Languages: Sanskrit
Subjects: Mahābhārata
Date: LS 418
Acc No.: NAK 5/680
Remarks: Udyogaparvan
Reel No. A 27-6
Inventory No. 31251
Title Mahābhārata; Udyogaparvan
Author Vyāsa
Subject Mahābhārata
Language Sanskrit
Manuscript Details
Script Maithili
Material palm-leaf
State complete
Size 56.0 x 6.0 cm
Binding Hole 1, in the centre
Folios 330
Lines per Folio 5
Foliation figures in the middle of the left-hand margin of the verso; a later hand added figures in the right-hand margin, too
Scribe Vāmacandra; Jayadeva; Bhīmanātha
Date of Copying LS 418
Place of Deposit NAK
Accession No. 5/680
Manuscript Features
The actual order of fols. is as follows: 171 has come between 169 and 170; 197 has come between 194 and 195.
On the back of an additional cover-leaf the following dedication has been inscribed in Nagari characters (exp. 3): idaṃ pustakaṃ lakṣmīnandaśarmaṇā lambodaraśarmaṇe saṃpradattaṃ.
Excerpts
Beginning
❖ oṃ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya ||
sa jayaty eva matimān yenāsau śrutisāgarāt |
prakāśo janito loke mahābhāratacandramāḥ ||
vaiśampāyana uvāca ||
kṛtvā vivāhan tu kurupravīrās
tadābhimanyor muditāḥ sapakṣāḥ |
viśramya rātrāv uṣasi pratītāḥ
sabhāṃ virāṭasya tadābhijagmuḥ | 〇
sabhā tu mā (!) matsyapateḥ samṛddhā
mālapravālottamaratnacitrā |
nyastāsanā mālyavatī sugandhā
tām abhyayus te nararājamukhyāḥ |
yathāsanañ cāviśatāṃ purastād
ubhau virāṭadrupadau nare〇ndrau |
vṛddhāś ca mānyāḥ pṛthivīpatīnāṃ
pitāmahau rāmajanārddanābhyāṃ |
pāñcālarājasya samīpasthas tu
śinipravīraḥ saharauhiṇeyaḥ |
matsasya rājñaś ca susannikṛṣṭo
janārddana〇ś caiva yudhiṣṭhiraś ca |
śrutāś (!) ca sarvve drupadasya rājño
bhīmārjunau mādravatīsutau ca |
⁅pra⁆dyumnaśāmbau ca narapravīrau
virāṭaputraiś ca sahābhimanyuḥ |
(fol. 1v1–5)
End
tam abhyayāt satyadhṛtiḥ saucittir yuddhadurmmadaḥ |
śroṇimān vasudānaś ca putraḥ kāśyasya vā vibhuḥ |
rathā viṃśatisāhasrā ye 〇 teṣām anvayāyinām |
hayānān nava koṭyas tu dhvajānāṃ kiṅkiṇīkināṃ |
gajā viṃśatisāhasrāḥ iśodantāḥ (!) prahāriṇaḥ |
kulīnā bhinnakaraṭā meghā iva visarppiṇaḥ |
ṣaṣṭināgasahasrāṇi daśānyāni ca bhāra〇ta |
yudhiṣṭhirasya yāny āsan yudhi senā (!) mahātmanaḥ |
kṣaranta iva jīmūtāḥ prabhinnakaraṭāmukhāḥ |
rājānam anvayuḥ paścāc calanta iva parvvatāḥ |
evaṃ samabhavad bhīmaḥ kuntīputrasya dhīmataḥ |
yadāśrityābhiyuyudhe dhā〇rttarāṣṭraṃ suyodhanaṃ |
tato nye gaṇaśaḥ paścāt sahasrāyutaśo narāḥ |
[[nadantaḥ prayayus teṣām anīkāni sahasraśaḥ |
tatra bherīsahasrāṇi śaṅkhānāṃ ayutāni ca ||]]
nyavādayanta saṃhṛṣṭāḥ sahasrāyutaśo narāḥ ||
(fol. 330r1–5)
Colophon
iti mahābhārate śatasāhasryā (!) saṃhitāyāṃ vaiyāsikyām udyogaparvvaṇi (!) samāptam || || la saṃ 418 phālgunaśukladvitīyāyāṃ kuje kaṅkapuragrāme uttamapuragrāmīyai (!) mmiśraśrīvāma(r)candraśrījayadevaśrībhīmanāthai (!) samaṃ likhitā udyogapustīti ||
(fol. 330r5)
Microfilm Details
Reel No. A 27/6
Date of Filming 08-09-1970
Exposures 336
Used Copy Berlin
Type of Film negative
Catalogued by OH
Date 19-04-2005
