A 29-3 Mahābhārata
Manuscript culture infobox
Filmed in: A 29/3
Title: Mahābhārata
Dimensions: 59 x 6 cm x 352 folios
Material: palm-leaf
Condition: damaged
Scripts: Maithili
Languages: Sanskrit
Subjects: Mahābhārata
Date:
Acc No.: NAK 5/843
Remarks: Ādiparvan
Reel No. A 29-3
Inventory No. 31118
Title Mahābhārata; Ādiparvan
Author Vyāsa
Subject Mahābhārata
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 328 + 10
Lines per Folio 5
Foliation figures in the middle of the left-hand margin of the verso
Scribe Bhīmanātha
Date of Copying LS 423
Place of Copying Kaṅkapuragrāma
Place of Deposit NAK
Accession No. 5/843
Manuscript Features
The following fols. are missing: 52–54; 61–62; 106; 152; 191; 301–302; 304–309.
Fols. 66 and 267 have been counted twice. The scribe has skipped fol. number “272”.
Fols. 1–67 are damaged to different degrees. Amongst these, fols. 1 and 55–59 have one half broken off.
There are ten more fols. appended to this MS. They also contain portions of the Ādiparvan and seem to have been written by the same hand. The extant fols. of this fragment are: two unnumbered ones; 31–32; 34–39.
Exp. 2–3 show another fol., written by the same hand, containing only one line, also belonging to the Ādiparvan.
Excerpts
Beginning
❖ oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya ||
nārāyaṇaṃ namaskṛtya narañ caiva narottamam |
devīṃ sarasvatīñ caiva ta///
///sarvvavighnavināyakebhyaḥ ||
lomaharṣaṇaputra ugraśravāḥ sautiḥ paurāṇiko
naimiṣāraṇye śaunaka///
-cit sūtanandanaḥ |
tam āśramam anuprāptaṃ naimiṣāraṇyavāsinaḥ |
citrāḥ śrotuṃ kathās tatra parivavrus tapa///
atha teśūpaviṣṭeṣu sarvveṣv eva tapasviṣu |
nirddiṣṭam ā⟪nasa⟫[[sana]]ṃ bheje vinayāl laumaharṣaṇiḥ |
su///
-yaṃ vihṛtas tvayā |
kālaḥ kamalapatrākṣa śaṃsaitat pṛcchato mama |
evaṃ pṛṣṭo bravīt samyag yathāval ⁅lau⁆///
(2r1) -sya rājarṣeḥ sarppasatre mahātmanaḥ |
samīpe pārthivendrasya samyak parīkṣitasya ca ||
kṛṣṇadvaipā++++++++⁅vidhā⁆ḥ kathāḥ |
kathitāś cāpi vidhivad yā vaiśampāyanena vai |
śrutvāhan tā vicitrārthā mahābhāratasaṃśrita[[ā]]ḥ |
bahūni saṃparikramya tīrthāny āyatanāni ca |
samantapañcakan nāma puṇyaṃ dvijaniṣevitam |
(fol. 1v1–2r2)
End
āgneyāni ca sarvvāṇi vāyavyāni tathaiva ca |
madīyāni ca sarvvāṇi grahīṣyasi dhanaṃjaya |
vāsudevo pi jagrāha prītiṃ pārthena śāśvatīṃ |
dadau surapatiś caiva varaṃ kṛṣṇāya dhīmate |
evaṃ da〇tvā varaṃ tābhyāṃ saha sarvvair mmarutpatiḥ |
hutāśanam anujñāpya jagāma tridivaṃ prabhuḥ |
pāvakaś ca tadā dāvaṃ dagdhvā samṛ(gi)pakṣiṇam |
(a)hāni pañca caikañ ca virarāma sutarppitaḥ |
dagdhvā dāvāni pītvā ca medāni (!) rudhirāṇi ca |
yuktaḥ paramayā prityā tāv ubhāv acyutārjunau |
yuvābhyāṃ puruṣa[[ā]]⟪vyā⟫gryābhyāṃ tarppito smi yathāsukham |
anujānāty ubhau vī(342r1)rau caratāṃ putra (!) vāñchitam |
evaṃ tau samanujñātau pāvakena mahātmanā |
arjjuno vāsudevaś ca dānavaś ca mayas tathā |
parikramya tataḥ sarvve trayo pi bharatarṣabha |
ramaṇīye nadīkūle sahitā (!) sahitās samupāgaman ||
(fol. 341v2–342r1)
Colophon
iti mahābhārate ⟪ā⟫ śatasāhasryāṃ saṃhitāyāṃ vaiyāsikyām ādiparvvaṇi śārṅgopākhyānaṃ nāmādhyāyaḥ || || 〇 samāpto yam ādiparvvaḥ || ||
kalanayana vāsudeva viṣṇo dharaṇidharācyuta śaṃkhacakrapāṇe |
bhava śaraṇam itīrayaṃnti (!) ye vai tyaja bhaṭa dūratareṇa tān apāpān |
barahāpīḍaṃ (!) naṭavaravapuḥ karṇṇayoḥ ka〇rṇṇikāraṃ
bibhrad vāsaḥ kanakakapiśaṃ vaijayantīñ ca mālāṃ |
randhrān veṇor adharasudhayā pūrayan gopavṛndair
vṛndāraṇyaṃ svapadaramaṇaṃ prāviśad gītakīrttiḥ |
yaṃ brahma vedāntavido vadanti paraṃ pradhānaṃ puruṣaṃ tathānye |
la saṃ 423 ākhāḍhakṛṣṇadaśamyāṃ gurau kaṅkapuragrāme sadupādhyāyaśrībhīmanāthena likhitam idam ādiparvvapustakam iti || ||
(fol. 342r1–4)
Microfilm Details
Reel No. A 29/3
Date of Filming 09-09-1970
Exposures 348
Used Copy Berlin
Type of Film negative
Remarks a few fols. have been micro-filmed twice
Catalogued by OH
Date 24-06-2005
