A 308-6 Mahābhārata

Manuscript culture infobox

Filmed in: A 308/6
Title: Mahābhārata
Dimensions: 39.5 x 15.5 cm x 55 folios
Material: paper?
Condition:
Scripts: Devanagari
Languages: Sanskrit
Subjects: Mahābhārata
Date:
Acc No.: NAK 4/652
Remarks: Gadāparvan w. comm. by Nīlakaṇṭha; forms a group with other NAK 4-652

Reel No. A 308-6

Inventory No. 31061

Title Mahābhārata

Remarks The text covered is part of Śalyaparvan and the text contains Tīrthayātrā(upa)parvan and Gadāyuddha(upa)parvan.

Author attributed to Vyāsa

Subject Mahābhārata

Language Sanskrit

Manuscript Details

Script Devanagari

Material paper

State complete

Size 39.5 x 15.5 cm

Folios 55

Lines per Folio 8–11

Foliation figures in the upper left-hand margin under the abbreviation gadā.(somewhere gadāparv, ga. pa. and somewhere no abbreviation) and in the lower right-hand margin under the word rāma on the verso

Scribe Amṛtānanda

Date of Copying SAM (ŚS) 1713

Place of Deposit NAK

Accession No. 4/652

Manuscript Features

The text starts from the 29^th adhyāya of Śalyaparvan and runs up to the end of the Śalyaparvan (64^th adhyāya). Those adhyāyas are known as Tīrthayātrā(upa)parvan (29^th adhyāya–53^rd adhyāya) and Gadāyuddha(upa)parvan (54^th adhyāya–64^th adhyāya) (POONA EDITION).

Excerpts

Beginning

|| śrīgurugaṇeśāya namaḥ ||     ||

nārāyaṇaṃ namaskṛtya naraṃ caiva narottamaṃ ||

devīṃ sarasvatīṃ caiva tato jayam udīrayet || 1 ||

dhṛtarāṣṭra uvāca ||

hateṣu sarvasainyeṣu pāṇḍuputrai raṇājire ||

mama śainyāvaśiṣṭās te kim akurvata saṃjaya || 2 ||

kṛtavarmā kṛta(!)ś caiva droṇaputraś ca vīryavān |

duryodhanas tu maṃdātmā rājā kim akarot tadā || 3 ||

saṃjaya uvāca ||

saṃprādravatsu dāreṣu kṣatriyāṇāṃ mahātmanāṃ |

vidrute śibire śūnye bhṛśodvignās trayo rathaḥ || 4 ||

niśamya pāṇḍuputrāṇāṃ tadā vaijayināṃ svanam ||

vidrutaṃ śibiraṃ dṛṣṭvā sāyāhne rājagṛddhinaḥ || 5 ||

sthānaṃ nārocayaṃs tatra tatas te hradam abhyayuḥ |

dudhiṣṭhiro pi dharmātmā bhrātṛbhiḥ sahito raṇe | (fol. 1v1–4)

End

rājño niyogād yodha(!)vyaṃ brāhmaṇena viśeṣataḥ ||

varttatāṃ kṣatradharmeṇa hy evaṃ dharmavido viduḥ ||

rājñas tu vacanaṃ śrutvā kṛpaḥ śāradvatas tataḥ ||

drauṇiṃ rājño niyogena saināpatye bhyaṣecayat ||

so bhiṣikto mahārāja pariṣvajya nṛpottamaṃ ||

prayayau siṃhanādena diśaḥ savā(!) vinodayan ||

duryodhano pi rājeṃndra śoṇitena pariplutaḥ ||

tāṃ niśāṃ pratipede tha saravabhūtabhayāvahāṃ ||

apakramya tu te tūrṇaṃ tasmād āyodhanān nṛpaḥ(!) ||

śokasaṃvignamanasaś ciṃtādhyānaparābhavan || 46 || (fol. 55r1–7)

Colophon

iti śrīmahābhārate śatasāhasryāṃ saṃhitāyāṃ vaiyāsikyāṃ gadāparvaṇi gadāyuddhaṃ samāptaṃ ||     ||

śubham astu satataṃ || || ||

śāke vahniśaśāṃkaśailaśaśabhṛd yukte maghau śyāmale

pakṣe śaivatithau śanau ca divase matsye sthite bhāskare ||

śrīdaivajña(budhājñavāra)m amṛtānaṃdābhidho lelikhat 

śrīmadbhīmavalīsuyodhanaripuṃ prāptā †upad† yatra tat || 1 || (fol. 55r7–*55v4)

Microfilm Details

Reel No. A 308/6

Date of Filming 03-04-1972

Exposures 62

Used Copy Kathmandu

Type of Film positive

Remarks two exposures of fols. 3v–4r, 6v–7r, 22v–23r and 38v–39r

Catalogued by RK

Date 19-11-2007

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