Manuscript Identifiers

Collection:UPenn Ms. Coll. 390
Item:2388
Repository:Rare Book & Manuscript Library
Institution:University of Pennsylvania
Location:Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Catalog:Poleman
Item:846

Contents

Work 1 (complete)

Locus:1r–18v
Author:Kṛṣṇa Dvaipāyana Vyāsa
Title:Anusmṛti
Rubric: f. 1r
.. atha anusmṛtiratnaprāraṁbhaḥ ..
Rubric: f. 2r
atha anusmṛtiprāra<ṁ>bhaḥ ..
Incipit: f. 2r
śatānīka uvāca ..
mahāmate mahāprājña sarvaśāstraviśārada ..
akṣīṇakarmaba[ṁ]dhaś ca puruṣo dvijasattama ..1.. (Anuṣṭubh) (Ms. Coll.390, Item 489, verse 1)
maraṇe yaj japan prāpyaṁ yaṁ ca bhāvam anusmaran ..
paraṁ padam avāpnoti tan me vada mahāmune ..2.. (Anuṣṭubh) (Ms. Coll.390, Item 489, verse 2)
Explicit: f. 18rf. 18v
kṛṣṇe ratāḥ kṛṣṇam anusmaraṁti
rātrau ca kṛṣṇaṁpunar uthitā ye (..)
te bhinnadehā prativiśaṁtikṛṣṇaṁ
havir yathā maṁtrahutaṁ hutāśe ..98.. (Triṣṭubh)
goviṁdeti sadā snānaṁ goviṁdeti sadā japaḥ ..
goviṁdeti sadā dhyānaṁ sadā goviṁdakīrttanaṁ .. ..99.. (Anuṣṭubh)
Final rubric: f. 18v
.. iti śrīmahābhārate śa<ta>sahasrasaṁhitāyāṁ vaiyyāsikyāṁ śāṁtiparvaṇi viṣṇudharmottare śaunakāśatā!ni!<nī>kasaṁvāde viṣṇunoktā vedānusmṛtiḥ saṁpūrṇaṁ ..
.. ratna ..4..
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:18 folia
Dimension:10.1 x 15.9 cm (h x w)
Foliation: Foliated in the upper left and lower right margins on the verso of each folio.
   Formula:1–18
   Signatures:anu0 appears above the folio number in the upper left margin, and smṛti0 or smṛti appears opposite it in the upper right margin on the verso of each folio.
Collation: Single and paired folios.
Formula:1, ..., 13–14, 15, ..., 18
Condition:Good with browned edges and a several broken corners.
Binding: Unbound
Seal: A circular stamp in blue ink on the right of f. 1r reads Library University Pennsylvania.
Layout:Written in 7 lines per page.

Hands

Hand 1:Written in clear, regular characters in the same hand as UPenn 2462 and UPenn 2487.
Additions:

Mistakes covered over with yellow. There are interlinear and marginal corrections, e.g. f. 2r, f. 2v, f. 3v, f. 15r

Decoration

Color:Invocations, rubrics, final rubrics, introduction of speakers, and double daṇḍas are written in red. Mistakes are covered over with yellow. Orange powder is rubbed over numbers.
Border:Two sets of vertical double red lines rule the left and right margins of the text on each page. A rectangular frame in two sets of double red lines surrounding a smaller frame in double red lines appears on f. 1r.

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

Record history

Revised: 4 March 2012

Facsimile  (work )

Whole image     Individual pages
f. 1r     f. 1r  
f. 1v, f. 2r     f. 1v  f. 2r  
f. 2v, f. 3r     f. 2v  f. 3r  
f. 3v, f. 4r     f. 3v  f. 4r  
f. 4v, f. 5r     f. 4v  f. 5r  
f. 5v, f. 6r     f. 5v  f. 6r  
f. 6v, f. 7r     f. 6v  f. 7r  
f. 7v, f. 8r     f. 7v  f. 8r  
f. 8v, f. 9r     f. 8v  f. 9r  
f. 9v, f. 10r     f. 9v  f. 10r  
f. 10v, f. 11r     f. 10v  f. 11r  
f. 11v, f. 12r     f. 11v  f. 12r  
f. 12v, f. 13r     f. 12v  f. 13r  
f. 13v, f. 14r     f. 13v  f. 14r  
f. 14v, f. 15r     f. 14v  f. 15r  
f. 15v, f. 16r     f. 15v  f. 16r  
f. 16v, f. 17r     f. 16v  f. 17r  
f. 17v, f. 18r     f. 17v  f. 18r  
f. 18v     f. 18v  


Transcription (text structure)


.. atha anusmṛtiratnaprāraṁbhaḥ ..
śrīgaṇeśāya namaḥ ..
atha anusmṛtiprāra<ṁ>bhaḥ ..
śatānīka uvāca ..
mahāmate mahāprājña sarvaśāstraviśārada ..
akṣīṇakarmaba[ṁ]dhaś ca puruṣo dvijasattama ..1.. (Anuṣṭubh) (Ms. Coll.390, Item 489, verse 1)
maraṇe yaj japan prāpyaṁ yaṁ ca bhāvam anusmaran ..
paraṁ padam avāpnoti tan me vada mahāmune ..2.. (Anuṣṭubh) (Ms. Coll.390, Item 489, verse 2)
<...>
kṛṣṇe ratāḥ kṛṣṇam anusmaraṁti
rātrau ca kṛṣṇaṁpunar uthitā ye (..)
te bhinnadehā prativiśaṁtikṛṣṇaṁ
havir yathā maṁtrahutaṁ hutāśe ..98.. (Triṣṭubh)
goviṁdeti sadā snānaṁ goviṁdeti sadā japaḥ ..
goviṁdeti sadā dhyānaṁ sadā goviṁdakīrttanaṁ .. ..99.. (Anuṣṭubh)

.. iti śrīmahābhārate śa<ta>sahasrasaṁhitāyāṁ vaiyyāsikyāṁ śāṁtiparvaṇi viṣṇudharmottare śaunakāśatā!ni!<nī>kasaṁvāde viṣṇunoktā vedānusmṛtiḥ saṁpūrṇaṁ ..
.. śrīkṛṣṇārpaṇam astu ..
.. ratna ..4..
.. śrīrāma ..
.. cha .. .. cha .. .. cha .. .. cha ..