B 252-1 Mahābhārata (Āraṇyakaparvan)

Manuscript culture infobox

Filmed in: B 252/1
Title: Mahābhārata
Dimensions: 34 x 14 cm x 385 folios
Material: paper?
Condition: damaged
Scripts: Devanagari
Languages: Sanskrit
Subjects: Mahābhārata
Date:
Acc No.: NAK 1/871
Remarks: Vanaparvan

Reel No. B 252/1

Inventory No. 31198

Title Mahābhārata (Āraṇyakaparvan)

Remarks

Author

Subject Mahābhārata

Language Sanskrit

Manuscript Details

Script Devanagari

Material paper

State incomplete

Size 34.0 x 14.0 cm

Binding Hole(s)

Folios 385

Lines per Page 10

Foliation figures on the verso, in the upper left-hand margin under the abbreviation āra. in the lower right-hand margin

Scribe

Date of Copying

Place of Copying

King

Donor

Owner/Deliverer

Place of Deposit NAK

Accession No. 1/871

Manuscript Features

Fols 26, 27, 120, 163, 227–246 and 253–323 are missing.

Fols. 32v–33r, 75v–76r, 164v–165r, 358v–359r and 361v–362r are microfilmed twice.

Fol. 462 has been mentioned to the two successive folios.

Excerpts

«Beginning »

|| || śrīgaṇeśāya namaḥ

oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya

nārāyaṇaṃ namaskṛtya naraṃ caiva narottamaṃ |

devīṃ sarasvatī[ṃ] caiva tato jayam udīrayet 1

janamejaya uvāca

evaṃ dyūtajitāḥ pārthāḥ kopitāś ca durātmabhiḥ |

dhārttarāṣṭariḥ sahāmātyair nnikṛtyā dvijasattama |

śrāvitāḥ paruṣā vācaḥ sṛjadbhir vairam uttamaṃ

kim akurvaṃta kauravyā mama pūrvapitāmahāḥ |

kathaṃ caiśvaryavibhraṣṭāḥ sahasā duḥkham eyuṣaḥ |

vane vijahrire pārthāḥ śakraprītam atejasaḥ (fol. 1v1–4)

«End »

sarvve vedavido mukhyā yatayo munayas tathā

āsedus te (yathālpāyaṃ) punar ddarśanakāṃkṣayā

saha dhaumyena vidvāṃsas tathā paṃca pāḍavāḥ

utthāya prayayur vvīrāḥ kṛṣṇām ādāya dhanvinaḥ ❁

krośamātram upāgamya tasmā(!) deśān nimittataḥ

śvobhūte manujavyāghrāñ channāvāsārtham udyatāḥ

pṛthak śāstravidaḥ sarvve sarvve maṃtraviśāradāḥ

saṃdhivigrahakālajñā maṃtrāya (samudāviśan) (fol. 481r8–4821)

Colophon

iti śrīmahābhārate śatasāhasryāṃ saṃhitāyāṃ vaiyāsikyām āraṇyake parvvaṇi araṇīharaṇaṃ samāptaṃ śubham astu || || (fol. 482r1–2)

Microfilm Details

Reel No. B 252/1

Date of Filming 28-03-1972

Exposures 393

Used Copy Kathmandu

Type of Film positive

Remarks

Catalogued by BK/RK

Date 04-01-2012

Bibliography