B 249-5 Mahābhārata
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Manuscript culture infobox
Filmed in: B 249/5
Title: Mahābhārata
Dimensions: 41.4 x 15 cm x 137 folios
Material: paper?
Condition: damaged
Scripts: Newari
Languages: Sanskrit
Subjects: Mahābhārata
Date: SAM 1854
Acc No.: NAK 3/170
Remarks: Droṇaparvan
Reel No. B 249-5 Inventory No. 31299
Title Mahābhārata
Remarks The text covered is part of Droṇaparvan with Anukramaṇikādhyāya.
Author attributed to Vyāsa
Subject Mahābhārata
Language Sanskrit
Manuscript Details
Script Devanagari
Material paper
State incomplete; missing folios:1–121 and 131v–132r
Size 41.4 x 15.0 cm
Folios 137
Lines per Folio 10–12
Foliation figures in the upper left-hand margin under the abbreviation bhā. dro. (somewhere bhā. droṇa.) and in the lower right-hand margn under the word rāma on the verso
Date of Copying SAM 1854
Place of Deposit NAK
Accession No. 3/170
Manuscript Features
The text starts from the last four letters of the first pāda of v. 10 of the adhyāya 92nd and runs up to the end of the Anukramaṇikādhyāya of Droṇaparvan (POONA EDITION).
Fol. 226r is blank but the text is continuous.
Excerpts
Beginning
/// mahārathaṃ
śarair abhyāhanad gāḍhaṃ tato yuddham abhūt tayoḥ
vimuṃcaṃtau śarāṃs tīkṣṇān saṃdadhānau ca sāyakān
adṛśyaṃ samare nyonyaṃ cakratus tau mahārathau
sātyaki[[ḥ]] kururājena nirviddho bahvaśobhata
astravad rudhiraṃ bhūri surasaṃ caṃdano yathā 12
sātvatena ca bāṇaughair nirviddhas tanayas tava
śātakuṃbhamayāpīḍo babhau yūpa ivocchritaḥ 13
mādhavas tu raṇe rājan kururājasya dhanvinaḥ
dhanuś ciccheda samare kṣurapreṇa hasaṃn(!) iva 14
athainaṃ chinnadhanvānaṃ śarair bahubhir ācinot
nirbhinnaś ca śarais tena dviṣatā kṣiprakāriṇā 15 (fol. 122r1–4)
End
varān kāmān sa labhate prasanne tryaṃbake nara(!)
gaccha yudhyasva kauṃteya na tavāsti parājayaḥ 47
yasya maṃtrī ca goptā ca prārśvatas te janārdanaḥ
saṃjaya uvāca
evam uttkā(!)rjunaṃ saṃkhye parāśarasutas tadā 48
jagāma bharataśreṣṭha yathāgatam ariṃdama
iti droṇapravaṇi śatarudiyaṃ(!)
saṃjaya uvāca
yuddhaṃ kṛtvā mahad ghoraṃ paṃcāhāni mahābalaḥ
brāhmaṇo nihato rājan brahmalokam avāptavān 49
svadhīte yat phalaṃ vede tad asminn api parvaṇi
kṣatriyāṇām abhīrūṇāṃ yuktam atra mahad yaśaḥ 50
ya idaṃ paṭhate parva śṛṇuyād vāpi nityaśaḥ
sa mucyate mahāpāpaiḥ kṛtair ghoraiś ca karmabhiḥ 51
yajñāvāptir brāhmaṇasyeha nityaṃ
ghore yuddhe kṣatriyāṇāṃ yaśaś ca
śeṣau varṇau kāmam iṣṭaṃ labhete
putrān pautrān nityam iṣṭāṃs tathaiva 52
… asyānaṃtaraṃ karṇaparva bhaviṣyati tasyāyam āydaślokaḥ
vaiśaṃpāyana uvāca
tato droṇe hate rājan duryodhanamukhānṛpāḥ
bhṛśam udvignamanaso droṇaputram upādravan 1
atha droṇaparvaṇi vṛttāṃtāḥ
ādau droṇasyābhiṣekaḥ saṃsa(!)ptakavadhas tataḥ
abhimanyor vadho jiṣṇoḥ pratijñā seṃ(!)dhavaṃ prati
…
ślokā nava tathāśītiḥ saṃkhyā tās tattvadarśinā
droṇaparvaṇi viprebhyo bhojanaṃ paramārcitaṃ
śarāś ca deyā rājeṃdra cāpāny asivarās tathā
āśvā rathā gajāś caiva vāsāṃsyābharaṇāni ca || †99† || (fol. 258r10–258v4, 5–6 and 259r2–4)
Sub-colophon
iti śrīmahābhārate śatasāhasryāṃ saṃhitāyāṃ vaiyyāsikyāṃ droṇaparva samāptaṃ 203 (fol. 258v4–5)
Colophon
iti śrīmahābhārate śatasāhasryāṃ saṃhitāyāṃ vaiyyāsikyāṃ droṇaparvaṇy anukramaṇikādhyāyaḥ samāptaḥ || || saṃvat 1854 miti phālgune kṛṣṇaikadaśyāṃ bhānuvāsare || śubhaṃ bhūyāt || || || || || (fol. 259r4–5)
Microfilm Details
Reel No. B 249/5
Date of Filming 27-03-1972
Exposures 141
Used Copy Kathmandu
Type of Film positive
Remarks two exposures of fols. 214v–215r
Catalogued by RK
Date 09-01-2008
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