A 28-3 Mahābhārata
Manuscript culture infobox
Filmed in: A 28/3
Title: Mahābhārata
Dimensions: 59 x 6 cm x 206 folios
Material: palm-leaf
Condition:
Scripts: Maithili
Languages: Sanskrit
Subjects: Mahābhārata
Date: LS 411
Acc No.: NAK 1/1364
Remarks: Ādiparvan
Reel No. A 28-3
Inventory No. 31119
Title Mahābhārata; Ādiparvan
Author Vyāsa
Subject Mahābhārata
Language Sanskrit
Manuscript Details
Script Maithili
Material palm-leaf
State damaged, incomplete
Size 59.0 x 6.0 cm
Binding Hole 1, in the centre
Folios 194
Lines per Folio 5
Foliation figures in the middle of the left-hand margin of the verso
Scribe Rāmanātha
Date of Copying NS 411
Donor Makhāyī Ṭhakkura
Place of Deposit NAK
Accession No. 1/ 1364
Manuscript Features
A number of fols. is damaged, mainly on the left-hand margin. In such cases, the foliation has sometimes been restored in the area of the binding hole. There are marginal corrections on many fols.
Out of the originally 314 fols. of this MS, some 120 fols. are missing.
There is a peculiarity in the numbering of fols. 101, 111, and 310, which have been numbered 1010, 1011, and 3010 respectively.
Excerpts
Beginning
❖ oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya ||
nārāyaṇaṃ namaskṛtya narañ caiva narottamam |
devīṃ sarasvatīñ caiva tato jayam udīrayet ||
(oṁ) namaḥ pitāmahāya namaḥ prajāpati(bhyo nama) ………… namaḥ sarvvavighnavināyakebhyaḥ ||
lomaharṣaṇaputra ugraśra⟪..⟫vā[[ḥ]] sautiḥ paurāṇiko [[|]]
naimiṣāraṇye śauna[[ka]]sya kulapater dvādaśavārṣike (sa)+
sukhāsīnān abhyagacchad brahmarṣṣīn śaṃsitavratān |
vinayāvanato bhūtvā kadācit sūtanandanaḥ |
tam āśramam anuprāpto naimiṣāraṇyavāsinām 〇 |
citrāḥ śrotuṃ kathās tatra parivavrus tapasvinaḥ |
abhivādya munīṃs tāṃs tu sarvvān eva kṛtāñjaliḥ |
apṛcchat sa tapovṛddhān sadbhi(ś cai)++nanditaḥ |
atha teśūpaviṣṭeṣu sarvveṣv eva tapasviṣu |
nirddiṣṭam āsanaṃ bheje vinayāl laumaharṣaṇiḥ |
sukhāsīnas tatas tan tu viśrāntam upa〇lakṣya ca |
athāpṛcchad ṛṣis tatra kaścit prastāvayan kathāḥ |
(fol. 1v1–3)
End
āgnayeyāni (!) ca sarvvāṇi vāyavyāni tathaiva ca |
madīyāni ca sarvvāṇi grahīṣyasi dhanañjaya |
vāsudevo ⁅pi⁆ …… ⁅prī⁆……….⁅śva⁆tīm |
dadau surapatiś caiva varaṃ kṛṣṇāya dhīmate |
⁅e⁆van dattvā varan tābhyāṃ saha sarvvair mmarutpatiḥ |
hutāśanam anujñāpya jagāma tridivaṃ prabhuḥ |
pāvaka(fol. 314v1)s tu tadā dāvaṃ dagdhvā samṛgapakṣiṇam |
ahāni pañca caikañ ca virarāma sutarppitaḥ |
dagdhvā dāvāni pītvā ⁅ca⁆ nada[[ā]]ṃsi rudhirāṇi ca |
⁅yukta⁆ḥ paramayā prityā …….. (u)vāca ha |
yuvābhyāṃ puruṣāgryābhyāṃ tarppito smi yathāsukham |
anujānāmy ubhau vīrau caratāṃ yatra vāñchitam |
evan tau samanujñātau ⁅pāvakena⁆ mahātmanā |
arjjuno vāsudevaś ca dānavaś ca mayān (!) tathā |
parikramya tataḥ sarvve trayo pi bha⁅ra⁆tarṣabha |
ramaṇīyanadī〇kule (!) sahitāḥ samupāgaman ||
(fol. 314r5–314v2)
Colophon
iti śrīmahābhārate śatasāhasryāṃ saṃhitāyāṃ vaiyāsikyāṃm ādiparvvaṇi khāṇḍavadāhe śāpopākhyānaṃ nāma saptādhikadviśatamo dhyāyaḥ | samāptaṃñ cedam ādiparvvaṇi || ❖ || śubham astu śrīr astu || la sa 〇 411 ākhāḍhavadi saptamī ravau kalhaulīgrame ṭhakkuraśrīmakhāyīmahāśayasyājñā saduśrījasugāmasaṃ śrīrāmanāthe(bhya) likhitā ….(pusta)kam iti ||
śā−⌣iḥ sarid atīvagabhīraṇīrā
bālā vaya[[ḥ]] sakalam ittham anartha(m e).. |
− − ⌣ − ⌣ ⌣ ⌣ − ⌣ ⌣ −darīṇāṃ
yan mādhava tvam asi saṃprati karṇṇadhāraḥ ||
sā sā saṃpadyate buddhiḥ sā matiḥ sā ca bhāvanā |
sahāyās tādṛśā
(fol. 314v2–4)
Microfilm Details
Reel No. A 28/3
Date of Filming 08-09-1970
Exposures 206
Used Copy Berlin
Type of Film negative
Remarks a few fols. have been micro-filmed twice
Catalogued by OH
Date 23-05-2005
