A 306-3 Mahābhārata

Manuscript culture infobox

Filmed in: A 306/3
Title: Mahābhārata
Dimensions: 34 x 16.8 cm x 36 folios
Material: paper?
Condition: complete
Scripts: Devanagari
Languages: Sanskrit
Subjects: Mahābhārata
Date:
Acc No.: NAK 4/593
Remarks: Āśramavāsikaparvan; forms a complete MS of the Mahābhārata with the rest of 4/593

Reel No. A 306-3

Inventory No.: 30929

Title Mahābhārata (Āśramavāsikaparvan)

Remarks The text covered is Āśramavāsikaparvan.

Author attributed to Vyāsa

Subject Mahābhārata

Language Sanskrit

Manuscript Details

Script Devanagari

Material paper

State complete

Size 34.0 x 16.8 cm

Folios 36

Lines per Folio 12–13

Foliation figures on the verso, in the upper left-hand margin under the abbreviation bhā. śra. pa. or bhā. ā. pa. and in the lowe right-hand margin udner the word rāmaḥ

Place of Deposit NAK

Accession No. 4/593

Manuscript Features

There are two exposures of fols. 8v–9r.

Excerpts

Beginning

vaṃde vighnavināśanaṃ ||    ||

nārāyaṇaṃ namaskṛtya naraṃ caiva narottamaṃ ||

devīṃ sarasvatīṃ vyāsaṃ tato jayam udīrayet ||    ||

janamejaya uvāca ||     ||

prāpya rājyaṃ mahātmānaḥ pāṃḍavā me pitāmahāḥ ||

katham āsan mahārājñi<ref name="ftn1">^{For mahārāje.}</ref> dhṛtarāṣṭre mahātmani ||

sa [hi] rājā hatāmātyo hataputro nirāśrayaḥ ||

katham āsīd dhataiśvaryo gāṃdhārī ca yaśasvinī ||

kiyaṃtaṃ caiva kālaṃ te mama pūrvapitāmahāḥ ||

sthitā rājye mahātmānas tan me vyākhyātum arhasi || (fol. 1v1–4)

End

evaṃ varṣāṇy atītāni dhṛtarāṣṭrasya dhīmataḥ ||

vanavāse tathā trīṇi nagare daśa paṃca ca || 25 ||

hataputrasya saṃgrāme dānāni dadataḥ sataḥ ||

jñātisaṃbaṃdhimitrāṇāṃ bhātṛ(!)ṇāṃ svajanasya ca ||

yudhiṣṭhiras tu nṛpati[r] nātiprīte(!)manās tadā ||

dhārayāmāsa tad rājyaṃ nihatajñātibāṃdhavaḥ || 27 ||

tathāśramavāsike tu parvaṇy api samāhitaḥ ||

gaṃdhamālyādiyuktaṃ ca haviṣyaṃ bhojayed dvijān || 28 || (fol. 36r8–11)

Colophon

iti śrīmahābhārate śatasāhasryāṃ saṃhitāyāṃ vaiyāsikyā⟨ṃ⟩m āśramavā[si]ke parvaṇi dhṛtarāṣṭrasvargaprāptiś catvāriṃśo ʼdhyāyaḥ || (❁) ||

śubham astu sarvadā ||   || (fol. 36r11–12)

Microfilm Details

Reel No. A 306/3

Date of Filming 31-03-1972

Exposures 39

Used Copy Kathmandu

Type of Film positive

Catalogued by BK

Date 01-09-2008

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