Mahābhārata 1791

Name:

Sañjaẏa

Date:

1750

Description:

Complete text of this regional variant of the well known epic in Sanskrit and Bengali. Throughout the work, though rather sporadically, there are scribal doodles of animals, stylized human figures in various poses, as well as other decorative designs.

Language:

Sanskrit

Provenance:

Cuḍāmani Vanikya and Rāmaprasāda Vanikya are mentioned and are possibly former owners of the manuscript.; Cuḍāmani Vanikya and Rāmaprasāda Vanikya are mentioned and are possibly scribes or former owners of the manuscript.; Cuḍāmani Vanikya, former owner.; Rāmaprasāda Vanikya, former owner.

Subject:

Hindu mythology

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

Poems; Drawings (visual works); Facsimiles; Manuscripts, Sanskrit; Manuscripts; manuscripts (documents)

Physical Description:

1 online resource (620 leaves) : illustrations

Rights:

https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/

Rights Note:

Reproduced from the original with permission of the Mahesh Charitable Trust under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0) license.

Notes:

Mentioned in notes accompanying the manuscript and in the manuscript itself (f. 101v); however Kavīndra is also mentioned (f. 181r) but may simply be a reference to the King of poets an be a reference to either Sañjaya or Vyāsa, author of the original Sanskrit epic rather than to the alternate Bengali epic by an author of that name.; Written in 10-14 lines per folio.; 620 leaves foliated [i-iii], 1-617, middle right verso; images for f. 103v and f. 374v are missing.; Title from manuscript notes accompanying the manuscript.; There is a single wooden board with large split down center used to support the manuscript and may have at one time been painted.; Dated Sana 1197, Phālguna 15, (February 27, 1791) (f. 617v).; Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; paper treated with yellow turmeric powder to protect from insects.; Dimensions of original manuscript: 17 x 46 cm.; Reproduced from the original with permission of the Mahesh Charitable Trust under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0) license.; In Sanskrit (Bengali)

Physical Location:

Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Web, Rāmamālā Library 8063