B 264-10 Mahābhārata(strīparvan)
Manuscript culture infobox
Filmed in: B 264/10
Title: Mahābhārata
Dimensions: 32.5 x 12 cm x 144 folios
Material: paper?
Condition: complete
Scripts: Maithili
Languages: Sanskrit
Subjects: Mahābhārata
Date:
Acc No.: NAK 1/970
Remarks: Śalya-, Gadā-, Sauptika-, Aiṣika-, Viśoka-, Strīparvan; forms a complete MS of the Mahābhārata with the rest of 1/969–970
Reel No. B 264/10
Inventory No. 30941
Title Mahābhārata(strīparvan)
Remarks
Author
Subject Mahābhārata
Language Sanskrit
Manuscript Details
Script Maithili
Material paper
State complete
Size 32.5 x 12.0 cm
Binding Hole(s)
Folios 144
Lines per Page 12–14
Foliation figures on the verso; in the upper left-hand margin and in the lower right-hand margin
Scribe
Date of Copying
Place of Copying
King Bhāvasiṃha Deva (should be a Maithili King)
Donor
Owner/Deliverer
Place of Deposit NAK
Accession No. 1/970
Manuscript Features
On the front and end cover-leaves is written in Devanagari script:
siddhiḥ śṛīmahārājādhirājaśrīmahārājābhāvasiṃhadevasyedaṃ mahābhārate śalyagadāsauptika-aisikaviśokastrīparvaṇi pustakaṃ patrasaṃkhyā 144
Fol. 58 is unreadable due to focus out.
The work “Printed in Grat Britain by Stephen Austin and sons, LTD. Hertford” provides the following information about the King Bhava Siṃha Dev:
… he anarchy following on the flight of Hari Simha came to an end when a Brahman named KameSvara Thakkura was put in power by the Delhi Sultan. The exact date of his accession is unknown. Ghiyasu-d-din died in 1324 and was succeeded by Muhammad bin Tughlak (1325-1351), 1 and he in his turn was followed by Firoz Shah Tughlak (1351-1387). KameSvara "Jliakkura lived in the village of Oini, but his family belonged to the village of Sugauna, and the line of kings that he founded under the suzerainty of Delhi is usually known as the Oinwar, or as the Sugauna, dynasty. Fir6z Shah subsequently deposed him, and put in his place Kāmeśvara's younger son Bhogīśvara, who divided his kingdom and gave half of it to his own brother Bhava Simha. Bh6gMvara died in A.D. 1360 and was followed by his son Ga^egvara (died A.D. 1371) and his grandson Kirti Simha, whose reign was short. Kirti Simha died without issue, and the half of the kingdom that he inherited from Bhogtevara. …
Excerpts
Beginning
❖ oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya ||
nārāyaṇaṃ namaskṛtya narañ caiva narottamaṃ |
devīṃ sarasvatīñ caiva tato jayam udīrayet |
janamejaya uvāca ||
evaṃ nipātite karṇṇe samare savyasācinā |
alpāvaśiṣṭāḥ kuravaḥ kim akurvvata vai dvija |
udīryamāṇaṃ ca balaṃ dṛṣṭvā rājā suyodhanaḥ |
pāṇḍavaiḥ prāptakālañ ca kiṃ prāpadyata kauravaḥ |
etad icchāmy a[[taḥ]] śrotuṃ tadācakṣva dvijottama | (fol. 1v1–3)
End
evaṃ vilapya bahulaṃ dharmmarājo yudhiṣṭhiraḥ |
vinadan duḥkhito rājā cakārāyodakaṃ prabhuḥ |
tato vineduḥ sahasā striyas tāḥ khalu sarvvaśaḥ |
abhito yāḥ sthitās tatra tasminn udakakarmmaṇi |
tata ānāyayāmāsa karṇṇasya saparicchadāḥ |
striyaḥ kurupatir ddhīmān bhrātuḥ premṇā yudhiṣṭhiraḥ |
sa tābhiḥ saha dharmmātmā pretakṛtyam anantaraṃ |
kṛttvottatāra gaṅgāyāḥ salilād ākulendriyaḥ | (fol. 144r7–10)
Colophon
iti mahābhārate śatasrāhasryāṃ saṃhitāyāṃ vaiyāsikyāṃ strīvarvva samāptam iti |
asyānantaraṃ śāntiparvva bhaviṣyati [|] tatrādau rājadharmmaḥ || yasyāyam ādyaślokaḥ |
vaiśampāyana uvāca ||
kṛtodakās te suhṛdāṃ sarveṣāṃ pāṇḍunandanāḥ |
vidoro dhṛtarā[[ṣṭraś ca sarvāś ca bharatastriyaḥ 1 ||]]
strīparva patra 16 (fol. 144r10–11)
Microfilm Details
Reel No. B 264/10
Date of Filming 05-04-1972
Exposures 148
Used Copy Kathmandu
Type of Film positive
Remarks
Catalogued by NK
Date 12-09-2011
Bibliography