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

Physical description

Locus:1r–18v (complete)
Author:Kṛṣṇa Dvaipāyana Vyāsa
Title:Anusmṛti
Cover rubric: f. 1r:
.. atha anusmṛtiratnaprāraṁbhaḥ ..
Form:Folia
Material:Country-made paper.
Extent:18
Dimension:10.1 x 15.9 cm
Collation: Single and paired folios.
Formula:1, ..., 13–14, 15, ..., 18
Condition:Good with browned edges and a several broken corners.
Binding: Unbound.
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

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. 14v,f. 15rf. 14v  f. 15r  
f. 15v,f. 16rf. 15v  f. 16r  
f. 16v,f. 17rf. 16v  f. 17r  
f. 17v,f. 18rf. 17v  f. 18r  
f. 18vf. 18v  


Transcription (Manuscript Layout)

f.1r
Line 1: .. atha anusmṛtiratnaprāraṁbhaḥ ..
f.2r
Line 1: śrīgaṇeśāya namaḥ .. atha anusmṛtiprā
Line 2: ra<ṁ>bhaḥ ..
śatānīka uvāca .. mahāmate mahā
Line 3: prājña sarvaśāstraviśārada .. akṣīṇakarma
Line 4: ba[ṁ]dhaś ca puruṣo dvijasattama ..1..
maraṇe ya
Line 4: j japan prāpyaṁ yaṁ ca bhāvam anusmaran .. paraṁ
Line 5: padam avāpnoti tan me vada mahāmune ..2.. [
f.18r
Line 2: kṛ
Line 3: ṣṇe ratāḥ kṛṣṇam anusmaraṁti rātrau ca kṛṣṇaṁ
Line 4: punar uthitā ye () te bhinnadehā prativiśaṁti
Line 5: kṛṣṇaṁ havir yathā maṁtrahutaṁ hutāśe ..98..
go
Line 6: viṁdeti sadā snānaṁ goviṁdeti sadā japaḥ ..
Line 7: goviṁdeti sadā dhyānaṁ sadā goviṁdakīrttanaṁ ..
f.18v
Line 1: ..99..
.. iti śrīmahābhārate śa<ta>sahasra
Line 2: saṁhitāyāṁ vaiyyāsikyāṁ śāṁtiparvaṇi vi
Line 3: ṣṇudharmottare śaunakāśatā!ni!<nī>kasaṁvāde
Line 4: viṣṇunoktā vedānusmṛtiḥ saṁpūrṇaṁ .. .. śrī
Line 5: kṛṣṇārpaṇam astu ..
.. ratna ..4.. .. śrīrāma ..
Line 4: .. cha .. .. cha .. .. cha .. .. cha ..
Record revised:4 March 2012