B 255-3 Mahābhārata (Śāntiparvan) NS 698 (AD 1578)
Manuscript culture infobox
Filmed in: B 255/3
Title: Mahābhārata
Dimensions: 22.5 x 10 cm x 245 folios
Material: paper?
Condition: complete
Scripts: Devanagari
Languages: Sanskrit
Subjects: Mahābhārata
Date: NS 689
Acc No.: NAK 1/1158
Remarks: Śāntiparvan, Mokṣadharma
Reel No. B 255/3
Inventory No. 31392
Title Mahābhārata (Śāntiparvan)
Remarks
Author attributed to Vyāsa
Subject Mahābhārata
Language Sanskrit
Manuscript Details
Script Devanagari; mixed with Newari
Material paper
State complete
Size 22.5 x 10. 0 cm
Binding Hole(s)
Folios 246 (including the table of contents)
Lines per Page 10–11
Foliation figures on the verso, in the upper left-hand margin under the abbreviation mokṣa. and in the lower right-hand margin
Scribe Viṣṇudāsa
Date of Copying NS 698
Place of Copying Lalitapaṭṭana (Lalitapura)
King Jayanarasiṃhadeva
Donor
Owner/Deliverer
Place of Deposit NAK
Accession No. 1/1558
Manuscript Features
- The colophon is followed by a table of contents bearing two folios (fols. 245–246). Again, the table of contents is followed by a scattered folio of some Mahābhārata written in Newari script.
- Fol. 88 is mentioned twice to the two successive folios.
Although fol. 114 is not mentioned, the text does not breaks off.
- There are two exposures of fols. 25v–27r and 172v–173r
Excerpts
Beginning
|| oṁ namo nārāyaṇāya ||
nārāyaṇaṃ namaskṛtyaṃ(!) naraṃ caiva narottamaṃ |
devīṃ sarasvatīñ caiva tato jayam udīrayet || ||
yudhiṣṭhira uvāca ||
dharmmāḥ pitāmahenoktā rājadharmmāśritāḥ śubhāḥ |
dharmmam āśramināṃ(!) śreṣṭhaṃ vaktum arhati(!) pārthiva || ||
bhīṣma uvāca ||
sarvvatrāvahito dharmmaḥ svargga(!) pretya(!) ca yatphalaṃ |
caturdvārasya dharmmasya nehāsti viphalā kṛtā || (fol. 1v1–3)
End
tad eṣa paramo dharma yat māṃ pṛcchasi bhārata |
āsīd ddhīro hy anākāṃkṣī dharmmātmakaraṇe nṛpa |
sa ca kila kṛtaniścayo dvijātir
bhujagapatiṃ pratidiśātmakṛtyaḥ |
yamaniyamasamāhito vanāntaṃ
parigaṇitoñcasitā(!)śanapraviṣṭaḥ || || (fol. 244v8–10)
Colophon
iti śrīmahābhārate śatasāhasryāṃ saṃhitāyāṃ vaiyāśikyāṃ śāntiparvvaṇi mokṣadharmme bhīṣmayudhiṣṭhirasaṃvāde uñchavṛtyupākhyānaṃ ta(!) mokṣadharmmaṃ(!) samāptam(!) || ❁ || mokṣadharmmaḥ samāptaḥ || ||
vasura[n]dhrarase yāte, nepālābdeṣu mādhave |
śukle ravau caturthyāyāṃ(!) lipipūrṇṇas tadābhavat ||
rājādhirājaśrīvikramanārāyaṇāva ‥ ‥ śrīśrījayanarasiṃhadevabhūpālacakracūḍāmaṇinā pālitalali[ta]paṭṭanamahārāṣṭre śrībhārasiṃhātmajena karaṇavaṃśodbhavena viṣṇudāśena aṣṭādaśa[[parvva]]mahābhāratasvākṣarena(!) svārthaṃ lekhakena likhitam idaṃ || ||
ataḥ paraṃ dānadharmmākṣamānuśāsano bhaviṣyati || || (fol. 244v10–245r4)
Microfilm Details
Reel No. B 255/3
Date of Filming 29-03-1972
Exposures 252
Used Copy Kathmandu
Type of Film positive
Remarks
Catalogued by BK/RK
Date 14-02-2012
Bibliography