A 27-7 Mahābhārata
Manuscript culture infobox
Filmed in: A 27/7
Title: Mahābhārata
Dimensions: 59 x 6 cm x 3 folios
Material: palm-leaf
Condition: damaged
Scripts: unknown
Languages: Sanskrit
Subjects: Mahābhārata
Date: LS 411
Acc No.: NAK 5/7974
Remarks: Ādiparvan
Reel No. A 27-7
Inventory No. 31121
Title Mahābhārata; Ādiparvan
Author Mahābhārata
Subject Vyāsa
Language Sanskrit
Manuscript Details
Script Maithili
Material palm-leaf
State incomplete, damaged
Size 59.0 x 6.0 cm
Binding Hole 1, in the centre
Folios 3
Lines per Folio 5
Foliation figures in the middle of the left-hand margin of the verso
Place of Deposit NAK
Accession No. 5/7974
Manuscript Features
This is only a fragment of three unconnected fols. Some corrections and additions have been made by a later hand in Newari characters.
Excerpts
Beginning
[[teṣāṃ jyeṣṭho bhavad rājā duṣyanto janamejaya |]]<ref name="ftn1">A later addition in Newari characters.</ref>
d⟪i⟫uṣyantād bharato jajñe vidvān śākuntalo nṛpaḥ |
tasmād bharatavāṃśasya vipratasthe mahad yaśaḥ |
bharatas tisṛ[[ṣu]] strīṣu nava putrām ajījanat |
nābhyanandata tān rājā na[[ā]]nurūpā mamety uta |
[[tatas tā mātaraḥ kruddhāḥ putrān ninyur yam akṣayaṃ |
tatas tasya narendrasya vitathaṃ putrato bhavat ||]]<ref name="ftn2">Also a later addition. </ref>
tato mahadbhiḥ kratubh⟪i⟫ī rājāno bharatas tadā |
lebhe putraṃ bharadvājād bhumanyun nāma bhārata |
(fol. 152r1–2)
End
vaśiṣṭha uvāca ||
vṛttam etad yathākālaṃ gaccha rājyaṃ praśādhi vai |
brāhmaṇan tu manuṣye〇ndra mā⟪mava⟫[[vama]]ṃsthāḥ kadācana ||
rājovāca ||
nāvamaṃsye mahābrahman kadācid rā///
-nyāny ahaṃ dvijān |
iṣvākūnāñ ca yenāham anṛṇaḥ syāṃ dvijottama |
[[ta]]tvattaḥ (!) prāptum icchāmi sarvvavedavidām vara |
apatyam īpsitaṃ mahyaṃ dātum arhasi sattama |
kālarūpaguṇopetam iṣvākukulavṛddhaye || ||
gandharvva uvāca ///
(fol. 272v4–5)
Microfilm Details
Reel No. A 27/7
Date of Filming 08-09-1970
Exposures 5
Used Copy Berlin
Type of Film negative
Catalogued by OH
Date 20-04-2005
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