Manuscript Identifiers

Collection:UPenn Ms. Coll. 390
Item:2496
Repository:Rare Book & Manuscript Library
Institution:University of Pennsylvania
Location:Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Catalog:Poleman
Item:850

Contents

Work 1

Locus:ff. 1r–14v (complete)
Author:Kṛṣṇa Dvaipāyana Vyāsa
Title:Anusmṛti
Part:Śāntiparvan
Cover rubric: f. 1r:
anusmṛtiprāraṁbhaḥ ..
Incipit: f. 1v:
śatānīka uvāca ..
mahā
mate mahāprājña sarvaśāstraviśārada ..
akṣī
ṇakarmabaṁdhas tu puruṣo dvijasattama ..1.
Note: Ms. Coll.390, Item 489, verse 1
Explicit: f. 14v:

nanu dhyāyaṁti ye dehe kathayā
mi ca tat sukhaṁ ..
sarvabaṁdhavinirmuktaḥ paraṁ padam avāpnuyāt ..7.6..
Final rubric: f. 14v:
iti śrīmahā
bhārate śāṁtiparvaṇi śatasahasrasaṁhitā
yāṁ viṣṇudharmotare anusmṛti<ḥ> saṁpūrṇa<ḥ>
Colophon:none
Note:The final rubric places the Anusmṛti in the Śāntiparvan of the Mahābhārata and also in the Viṣṇudharmottara. Yet the work is not included in the text of the Pune critical edition of the Mahābhārata, nor in the Viṣṇudharmottara Purāṇa. A similar passage, though with significant differences, occurs in Vol. 12's Appendix I no. 17B and likewise calls itself the Anusmṛti. UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 489, etc. also contain the Anusmṛti, but the text remains unidentified.
Language:Sanskrit in Devanāgarī script

Physical description

Form:Folia
Material:Country-made paper.
Extent:14
Dimension:7.1 x 13.3 cm
Collation: Single folios.
Condition:Very good.
Binding: Unbound.
Layout:Written in 6 lines per page.

Hands

Hand 1:Written in clear, bold, irregular characters of varying size, tilted leftward in wavy lines.
Additions:

In Telugu script in the lower right margin on f. 1r is written “śrīrāmāya”

There a a few marginal corrections

There are many lengthy additions in the margins by a different hand inserting verses from what must be a different version of the same text. The text of the additions begins in the top margin of each page and continues clockwise in sequence in the right, bottom, and left margins. They begin on f. 2r, top margin in lines numbered in the transcript 1–2 and continue in the right margin in lines numbered 3–4. Similarly in the citation of the end of the additions: f. 14r, left margin, line 3, is the 10th line of the addition in the page and it continues onto the f. 14v top margin. “deva[vre]()taṁ mahāprājñaṁ sarvaśāstraviśāradaṁ .. praṇamya daṁḍavat bhūmau
paprachedaṁ yudhiṣṭhiraḥ ..4.. yudhiṣṭhira u0 ..
pitāmaha mahāprājña
sarvaśāstraviśārada .. pramāṇakā
le kiṁ ciṁtyaṁ mokṣāya tatvadarśanaiḥ ..5.. [
[
gatvā gatvā nivarttaṁte caṁ
drasūryādayo grahāḥ .. adyāpi na nivarttaṁte dvādaśākṣaraciṁtakāḥ ..
na vāsudevāt param asti maṁgalaṁ na vā0t paramaṁ pāvanam ..
na vāsude0 daivataṁ na vāsudevāt pra
ṇipat prasīdati .. Note: Ms. Coll.390, Item 2666, verse 103

cha ..

iti śrīmahā ”

A third hand has written on ?:
“sarvamaṁgalado kṛṣṇaṁ bhavati varado harir

iti .. ”

Decoration

Color:Invocation, rubric, final rubric, introduction of speakers, and double daṇḍas are written in red.
Border:Vertical double red lines rule the left and right margins of the text on each page.

History

Origin: 18–
Acquisition: David Nelson (2000: 203) describes the acquisition of the Sanskrit manuscripts in the University of Pennsylvania Library as follows:

“ The University of Pennsylvania Library possesses a collection of almost 3,300 Indic manuscripts, the largest such collection in the Western hemisphere. While the vast majority of these manuscripts are from India, there are also a number of manuscripts from Burma, Thailand, Sri Lanka, and Tibet.

Some of the manuscripts had been acquired in chance fashion by the Library and the University Museum before 1930, but in that year, at the request of Professor W. Norman Brown (1892–1975), Provost Josiah Penniman provided a sum of money to purchase Indic manuscripts. Shortly thereafter he obtained a donation from the late Mr. John Gribbel. Substantial contributions from Dr. Charles W. Burr, the Faculty Research Fund, and the Cotton Fund soon followed. The bulk of the manuscripts are the result of purchases made using these funds in India, between 1930 and 1935, under the direction of Professor W. Norman Brown. ”

Subject headings

SubjectLC:Mahābhārata – Anusmṛti.
SubjectLC:Manuscripts, Sanskrit – 19th century.
SubjectLC:Manuscripts – India – 19th century.
SubjectSL:Mahābhārata

Facsimile

Whole imageIndividual pages
f. 1rf. 1r  
f. 1v,f. 2rf. 1v  f. 2r  
f. 2v,f. 3rf. 2v  f. 3r  
f. 3v,f. 4rf. 3v  f. 4r  
f. 4v,f. 5rf. 4v  f. 5r  
f. 5v,f. 6rf. 5v  f. 6r  
f. 6v,f. 7rf. 6v  f. 7r  
f. 7v,f. 8rf. 7v  f. 8r  
f. 8v,f. 9rf. 8v  f. 9r  
f. 9v,f. 10rf. 9v  f. 10r  
f. 10v,f. 11rf. 10v  f. 11r  
f. 11v,f. 12rf. 11v  f. 12r  
f. 12v,f. 13rf. 12v  f. 13r  
f. 13v,f. 14rf. 13v  f. 14r  
f. 14vf. 14v  


Transcription (Manuscript Layout)

f.1r
Line 1: anusmṛtiprāraṁbhaḥ .. cha
f.1v
Line 1: śrīgaṇeśāya namaḥ ..
śatānīka uvāca .. mahā
Line 2: mate mahāprājña sarvaśāstraviśārada .. akṣī
Line 3: ṇakarmabaṁdhas tu puruṣo dvijasattama ..1. [
f.14v
Line 2: [ nanu dhyāyaṁti ye dehe kathayā
Line 3: mi ca tat sukhaṁ .. sarvabaṁdhavinirmuktaḥ paraṁ padam avāpnuyāt ..7.6..
iti śrīmahā
Line 4: bhārate śāṁtiparvaṇi śatasahasrasaṁhitā
Line 5: yāṁ viṣṇudharmotare anusmṛti<ḥ> saṁpūrṇa<ḥ> cha
Record revised:5 March 2012