Manuscript Identifiers

Collection:UPenn Ms. Coll. 390
Item:2445
Repository:Rare Book & Manuscript Library
Institution:University of Pennsylvania
Location:Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Catalog:Poleman
Item:848

Contents

Work 1

Locus:ff. 1r–21v (complete)
Author:Kṛṣṇa Dvaipāyana Vyāsa
Title:Anusmṛti
Cover rubric: f. 1r:
anusmṛti
Incipit: f. 1v:
śatānika uvāca ..

mahāmate mahāprājña sarvaśāstraviśārada ..
a
kṣīṇakarmabaṁdhas tu puruṣo dvijasattama ..1..
Note: Ms. Coll.390, Item 489, verse 1
Explicit: f20v-f21r:

āloḍya
sarvaśāstrāṇi vicā!rpaṁcā!<rya ca> punaḥ punaḥ ..
idam ekaṁ su
niṣpannaṁ dhyeyo nārāyaṇaḥ sadā ..98..
Note:
MBh. 13.124, Appendix I, no. 13, lines 20–21

namo brahma
ṇyadevāya gobrāhmaṇahitāya ca ..
jagaddhitāya
kṛṣṇāya goviṁdāya namo namaḥ ..99.. ..
Note:
MBh. 13.135.142*639, lines 1–2
Final rubric: f. 21r:
iti śrī
mahābhārate viṣṇudharmotta!ye!<re> anusmṛti samāptā
Colophon:none
Note:The final rubric places the Anusmṛti in 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:Paper.
Extent:21
Dimension:7 x 12.1 cm
Collation: Single and paired folios.
Formula:1, ..., 6–7, 8, ..., 13, 14–15, 16, ..., 21
Condition:Very good with frayed edges and bent corners.
Binding: Unbound.
Layout:Written in 5 lines per page.

Hands

Hand 1:Written in clear, bold, regular characters in the same hand as Upenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 2491.
Additions:

The cover rubric on f. 1r is written in a different hand. There are no other additions and no corrections.

Decoration

Color:Invocation, 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. 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. 18v,f. 19rf. 18v  f. 19r  
f. 19v,f. 20rf. 19v  f. 20r  
f. 20v,f. 21rf. 20v  f. 21r  
f. 21vf. 21v  


Transcription (Manuscript Layout)

f.1r
Line 1: anusmṛti
f.1v
Line 1: śrīgaṇeśāya namaḥ .. .. śatānika uvāca ..
Line 3:
mahāmate mahāprājña sarvaśāstraviśārada .. a
Line 3: kṣīṇakarmabaṁdhas tu puruṣo dvijasattama ..1.. [
f.20v
Line 5: [ āloḍya
f.21r
Line 1: sarvaśāstrāṇi vicā!rpaṁcā!<rya ca> punaḥ punaḥ .. idam ekaṁ su
Line 2: niṣpannaṁ dhyeyo nārāyaṇaḥ sadā ..98.. namo brahma
Line 3: ṇyadevāya gobrāhmaṇahitāya ca .. jagaddhitāya
Line 4: kṛṣṇāya goviṁdāya namo namaḥ ..99.. ..
iti śrī
Line 5: mahābhārate viṣṇudharmotta!ye!<re> anusmṛti samāptā
Record revised:5 March 2012