A 1014-8 Mahābhārata

Manuscript culture infobox

Filmed in: A 1014/8
Title: Mahābhārata
Dimensions: 38 x 16.5 cm x 309 folios
Material: paper?
Condition: complete
Scripts: Devanagari
Languages: Sanskrit
Subjects: Mahābhārata
Date:
Acc No.: NAK 6/833
Remarks: Ādiparvan w. comm. by Nīlakaṇṭha; A 1014/8, A 1015/21, A 1015/23, A 1016/4, A 1016/6, A 1014/9–A 1015/1, A 1015/3, A 1015/11, A 1015/14, A 1015/6, A 1015/4, A 1015/8, A 1015/10, A 1015/15, A 1015/16, and A 1015/18 form a series

Reel No. A 1014-8 Inventory No. 31029

Title Mahābhārata and Bhāratabhāvadīpa

Remarks The text covered is Ādiparvan and a commentary on it.

Author attributed to Vyāsa, Nīlakaṇṭha

Subject Mahābhārata

Language Sanskrit

Manuscript Details

Script Devanagari

Material paper

State incomplete, missing folio: 174

Size 38.0 x 16.5 cm

Folios 309

Lines per Folio 9–13

Foliation figures on the verso, in the upper left-hand margin under the abbreviation bhā. a. pa. or bhārata. a. and in the lower right-hand margin under the word rāmaḥ

Place of Deposit NAK

Accession No. 6/833

Manuscript Features

The folio number 132 has been assigned twice to two successive folios.

After the colophon of the text, two folios appear containing the Padakharpaṭakāvya by Kālidāsa.

…

iti kālidāsakṛtaṃ padakharpaṭakāvyam śubham

….

Excerpts

«Beginning of the root text:»

oṃ nārāyaṇaṃ namaskṛtya naraṃ caiva narottamam ||

devīṃ sarasvatīṃ caiva tato jayam udīrayet || 1 ||

oṃ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya ||

oṃ namaḥ pitāmahāya ||

oṃ namaḥ prajāpatibhyaḥ |

oṃ namaḥ kṛṣṇadvaipāyanāya ||

oṃ namaḥ sarvavighnavināyakebhyaḥ ||

lomaharṣaṇaputra ugraśravāḥ sautiḥ paurāṇiko naimiṣāraṇye || śaunakasya kulapater dvādaśavārṣike satre || 1 ||

sukhāsīnān abhyagacchad brahmarṣīn saṃśitavratān ||

vinayāvanato bhūtvā kadācit sūtanaṃdanaḥ || 2 || (fol. 2r6, 3r10–11 and 3v4)

«Beginning of the commentary:»

śrīgaṇeśāya namaḥ ||

śrīgurave namaḥ ||

śrīsarasvatyai namaḥ ||

yaṃ vaktraṃ mukurā iveṃdriyamanomāyāḥ parāg dṛśyatāṃ

ninyus tatsthavisā(!)dināpi ca virāṭ sūtreśabhāvaṃ gatam || 

taṃ pratyagdṛgadṛśyamakṣaram aṇuṃ tyaktopanetratrayāḥ

śrīgopālam upāsmahe śrutiśiro vaṃśīravair darśitam || 1 ||

…

iha khalu bhagavān pārāśaryaḥ paramakāruṇiko maṃdamadhyamamatīn anugṛ(!)hītuṃ caturdaśavidyāsthānarahasyānekatra pradidarśayiṣur mahābhāratākhyam itihāsaṃ praṇeṣyan prāripsitasya graṃthasya niṣpratyūhaparipūraṇāya pracayagamanāya ca kṛtaṃ maṃgalaṃ śiṣyaśikṣāyai ślokarūpeṇa nibadhnann arthāt tatra †prekṣāvatpratyaṃgam† abhidheyādi darśayati || nārāyaṇam iti || naro vidyāvi(!)cchinnaṃ caitanyaṃ jīvaḥ tena viṣayīkṛteʼ navacchinnacaitannarūpe brahmaṇi śuktau rajatavat kalpitaṃ carācaram apśabdavācyaṃ (nāraṃ) tad eva ayanaṃ śuktīdam aṃśasya rajatam iva praveśasthānaṃ yasya sa nārāyaṇaḥ | (sva)smin jīvakalpitasya prapaṃcasya sattāsphūrttipradatvena kāraṇībhūta ity arthaḥ (fol. 1v1–2 and 1v8–11)

«End of the root text:»

yuvābhyāṃ puruṣāgrābhyāṃ tarpito[ʼ]smi yathā sukham ||

anujānāmi vāṃ vīrau carataṃ yatra vāṃchitam || 17 ||

evaṃ tau samanujñātau pāvakena mahātmanā || 

arjuno vāsudevaś ca dānavaś ca mayas tathā || 18 || 

parikramya tataḥ sarve trayo[ʼ]pi bharatarṣabha || 

ramaṇīye nadīkūle sahitāḥ samupāviśan || 19 ||  || (fol. 309r9–11)

«End of the commentary:»

bhūtaṃ jaritāyām apatyaṃ bhāvyarthe tvayi janayitavyeʼpatye || 15 || 16 ||

jaritānāmataḥ jarā saṃjātāsyā jaritā sarvendriyavyākulā(yāḥ) || 25 || … yuṣmākaṃ || 1 || mātur dharmajñatāṃ (vadhaḥ) | mātuḥ yuṣmatsaṃbaṃdhitam ādharmajñatāṃ yuṣmadīyaṃ paramadharmajñānaṃ mātur astīti vijñāyety arthaḥ || 2 || brahmatadvṛttāṃtaṃ (‥) siddham || 3 || 5 || 6 | 16 || carataṃ yatra vāṃchitam ity anenāpratihatagatitvaṃ dvayor api dattaṃ mayety arthaḥ || 17 || 19 || (fol. 308r14 and 308v13–309r1)

«Colophon of the root text:»

iti śrīmahābhārate satasāhasryāṃ saṃhitāyāṃ vaiyāśi(!)kyāṃ ādiparvaṇi khāṃḍavadāha ādiparva ca samāptam || || śubham || || rāmaḥ | (fol. 309r11–12)

«Colophon of the commentary:»

iti śrīmatpadavākyapramāṇamaryādādhuraṃdharacaturddharavaṃśāvataṃsa-goviṃdasūrisūnoḥ śrīnīlakaṃṭhasya kṛtau bhāratabhāvadīpe ādiparvaṇi khāṃḍavadāhārthaprakāśaḥ samāpto bhāvadīpaḥ || ||

śrīkṛṣṇāya namaḥ || || (fol. 309r1 and 12)

Microfilm Details

Reel No. A 1014/8

Date of Filming 21-05-1985

Exposures 320

Used Copy Kathmandu

Type of Film positive

Remarks two exposures of fols. 11v–12r, 139v–140r, 147v–148r, 221v–222r, 264v–266r and 272v–273r

Catalogued by BK/RK

Date 28-04-2008

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