Manuscript Identifiers

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

Contents

Work 1

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

Physical description

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.

Decoration

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..

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. 10vf. 10v  


Transcription (Manuscript Layout)

f.1v
Line 1: śrīgaṇeśāya namaḥ .. .. śatānīka uvāca .. .. mahāte
Line 2: jo mahāprājña sarvaśāstraviśārada akṣīṇakarmabaṁdh
Line 3: as tu puruṣo dvijasattama 1
maraṇe yaṁ japaj jāpyaṁ paṁcabhāva
Line 4: m anusmaret paramaṁ padam āpnoti tan me brūhi suniścitaṁ
Line 5: 2..
śaunaka uvāca .. śrīvatsāṁkaṁ jagadbījam anaṁtaṁ lī
Line 6: kasākṣiṇaṁ purā nārāyaṇaṁ devaṁ nāradaḥ paripṛchata
Line 7: 3..
nārada uvāca .. bhagavan bhūtabhavyeśa śraddadhānai
f.2r
Line 1: r jiteṁdriyaiḥ kathaṁ bhaktair viciṁtyo si maraṇe pa!yyu!<ryu>pasthite
Line 2: 4 kiṁ vā nityaṁ japej jāpyaṁ talpād utthāya mānavaḥ supto vi
Line 3: buddho dhyāyec ca tan me brūhi sanātana 5 śrutvā tasya tu deva
Line 4: rṣe vākyaṁ vākyaviśāradaḥ provāca bhagavān viṣṇur nāradaṁ
Line 5: jagatā<ṁ> patiḥ ..6.. śrībhagavān uvāca .. haṁta te kathayiṣyā
Line 6: mi muner divyām anusmṛtiṁ maraṇe yām anusmṛtya prāpnoti
Line 7: paramāṁ gatiṁ 7 õkāram āditaḥ kṛtvā mām anusmartya
f.2v
Line 1: cātmanā ekāgraḥ prayato bhūtvā tv imaṁ maṁtram udīrayet 8
Line 2:

oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya namaḥ

anaṁtaṁ śāśvataṁ devam a
Line 3: vyaktaṁ puruṣottamaṁ prapadye prāṁjali!ṁ!<r> viṣṇum acyutaṁ parameśvaraṁ
Line 4: 9 purāṇam puruṣaṁ viṣṇum anaṁtaṁ lokasākṣiṇaṁ prapadye puṁḍa
Line 5: rīkākṣam īśaṁ bhaktānukaṁpinaṁ 10 [
f.9v
Line 1: [ nāhaṁ vasāmi vaikuṁṭhe yogināṁ hṛ
Line 6: daye na ca madbhaktā yatra gāyaṁti tatra tiṣṭhāmi nārada 71
Line 7: vaiśaṁpāyanauvāca .. evaṁ sa devadevena nāradaḥ pratibodhitaḥ
f.10r
Line 1: cakāra keśave bhaktiṁ tasmāt tvaṁ kuru bhūpate 72 saṁsāra e
Line 2: va sīmaṁto yaḥ svānāṁ kila kathyate nanu dhyāyati yo dehī
Line 3: kathayāmi ca tatsukhaṁ 73 sarvabaṁdhavinirmuktaḥ paraṁ pada
Line 4: m avāpnuyāt yaḥ paṭhet prātar utthāya sa bhaved vaiṣṇavo naraḥ
Line 5: 74..
iti śrīmahābhārate śatasahasrasaṁhitāyāṁ anu
Line 6: smṛti<ḥ> samāptā .. .. śubhaṁ bhavat .. ..
Record revised:30 October 2011