Collection: | UPenn Ms. Coll. 390 |
Item: | 489 |
Repository: | Rare Book & Manuscript Library |
Institution: | University of Pennsylvania |
Location: | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America |
Catalog: | Poleman |
Item: | 845 |
Locus: | ff. 1v–10r (complete) |
Author: | Kṛṣṇa Dvaipāyana Vyāsa |
Title: | Anusmṛti |
Incipit: |
f. 1v: .. śatānīka uvāca .. .. mahāte jo mahāprājña sarvaśāstraviśārada akṣīṇakarmabaṁdh as tu puruṣo dvijasattama 1 maraṇe yaṁ japaj jāpyaṁ paṁcabhāva m anusmaret paramaṁ padam āpnoti tan me brūhi suniścitaṁ 2.. |
Explicit: |
f9v-f10r: vaiśaṁpāyanauvāca .. evaṁ sa devadevena nāradaḥ pratibodhitaḥ cakāra keśave bhaktiṁ tasmāt tvaṁ kuru bhūpate 72 saṁsāra e va sīmaṁto yaḥ svānāṁ kila kathyate nanu dhyāyati yo dehī kathayāmi ca tatsukhaṁ 73 sarvabaṁdhavinirmuktaḥ paraṁ pada m avāpnuyāt yaḥ paṭhet prātar utthāya sa bhaved vaiṣṇavo naraḥ 74.. |
Final rubric: |
f. 10r: iti śrīmahābhārate śatasahasrasaṁhitāyāṁ anu smṛti<ḥ> samāptā .. .. |
Colophon: | none |
Note: | Although the final rubric of this work places the Anusmṛti in the Mahābhārata, the text is not included in the text established in the Pune critical edition of the Mahābhārata. A similar passage, though with significant differences, occurs in Vol. 12's Appendix I, no. 17B and likewise calls itself the Anusmṛti. |
Language: | Sanskrit in Devanāgarī script |
Form: | Folia |
Material: | Country-made paper. |
Extent: | 10 |
Dimension: | 9.3 x 15.5 cm |
Collation: | Single folios. |
Condition: | Good with browned edges and broken corners. |
Binding: | Unbound. |
Layout: | Written in 7 lines per page. |
Color: | Invocation, introduction of speakers, final rubric, and double daṇḍas are written in red. On f. 9v: every second syllable of vESaMpAyana is written in red. The first and every even leaf is tinted a faint yellow. |
Border: | Two sets of vertical double red lines rule the left and right margins of the text on each page. A decorative rectangular frame in red appears on f. 1r: and f. 10v.. |
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. ” |
SubjectLC: | Mahābhārata – Anusmṛti. |
SubjectLC: | Manuscripts, Sanskrit – 19th century. |
SubjectLC: | Manuscripts – India – 19th century. |
SubjectSL: | Mahābhārata |
oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya namaḥ
anaṁtaṁ śāśvataṁ devam aRecord revised: | 30 October 2011 |
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