A 1014-8 Mahābhārata
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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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