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 (complete)

Locus:ff. 1v–10r
Author:Kṛṣṇa Dvaipāyana Vyāsa
Title:Anusmṛti
Incipit: f. 1v
.. śatānīka uvāca .. ..
mahātejo mahāprājña sarvaśāstraviśārada
akṣīṇakarmabaṁdhas tu puruṣo dvijasattama 1 (Anuṣṭubh)
maraṇe yaṁ japaj jāpyaṁ paṁcabhāvam anusmaret
paramaṁ padam āpnoti tan me brūhi suniścitaṁ 2.. (Anuṣṭubh)
Explicit: f. 9vf. 10r
vaiśaṁpāyanauvāca ..
evaṁ sa devadevena nāradaḥ pratibodhitaḥ
cakāra keśave bhaktiṁ tasmāt tvaṁ kuru bhūpate 72 (Anuṣṭubh)
saṁsāra eva sīmaṁto yaḥ svānāṁ kila kathyate
nanu dhyāyati yo dehī kathayāmi ca tatsukhaṁ 73 (Anuṣṭubh)
sarvabaṁdhavinirmuktaḥ paraṁ padam avāpnuyāt
yaḥ paṭhet prātar utthāya sa bhaved vaiṣṇavo naraḥ 74.. (Anuṣṭubh)
Final rubric: f. 10r
iti śrīmahābhārate śatasahasrasaṁhitāyāṁ anusmṛti<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 folia
Dimension:9.3 x 15.5 cm (h x w)
Foliation: Foliated in the upper left and lower right margins on the verso of each folio; f. 10v foliated on recto by another hand.
   Formula:1–10
   Signatures:a0 smṛ0 appears above the folio number in the upper left margin, and śiva appears above the folio number in the lower right margin on the verso of each folio 1–9.
Collation: Single folia
Condition:Good with browned edges and broken corners.
Binding: Unbound
Seal: A circular stamp in blue ink in the middle of f. 1r and on the lower right of f. 17v reads Library University Pennsylvania. A white label on which is hand-written No. 489 appears on f. 1r.
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

Record history

Revised: 30 October 2011

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. 10v  


Transcription (text structure)

śrīgaṇeśāya namaḥ ..

.. śatānīka uvāca .. ..
mahātejo mahāprājña sarvaśāstraviśārada
akṣīṇakarmabaṁdhas tu puruṣo dvijasattama 1 (Anuṣṭubh)
maraṇe yaṁ japaj jāpyaṁ paṁcabhāvam anusmaret
paramaṁ padam āpnoti tan me brūhi suniścitaṁ 2.. (Anuṣṭubh)
śaunaka uvāca ..
śrīvatsāṁkaṁ jagadbījam anaṁtaṁ līkasākṣiṇaṁ
purā nārāyaṇaṁ devaṁ nāradaḥ paripṛchata 3.. (Anuṣṭubh)
nārada uvāca ..
bhagavan bhūtabhavyeśa śraddadhānair jiteṁdriyaiḥ
kathaṁ bhaktair viciṁtyo si maraṇe pa!yyu!<ryu>pasthite 4 ( MBh. Appendix I, 17B, lines 11–12 ) (Anuṣṭubh)
kiṁ vā nityaṁ japej jāpyaṁ talpād utthāya mānavaḥ
supto vibuddho dhyāyec ca tan me brūhi sanātana 5 ( MBh. Appendix I, 17B, lines 13–14 ) (Anuṣṭubh)
śrutvā tasya tu devarṣe vākyaṁ vākyaviśāradaḥ
provāca bhagavān viṣṇur nāradaṁ jagatā<ṁ> patiḥ ..6.. ( MBh. Appendix I, 17B, lines 15–16 ) (Anuṣṭubh)
śrībhagavān uvāca ..
haṁta te kathayiṣyāmi muner divyām anusmṛtiṁ
maraṇe yām anusmṛtya prāpnoti paramāṁ gatiṁ 7 ( MBh. Appendix I, 17B, lines 17–18 ) (Anuṣṭubh)
õkāram āditaḥ kṛtvā mām anusmartya cātmanā
ekāgraḥ prayato bhūtvā tv imaṁ maṁtram udīrayet 8 ( MBh. Appendix I, 17B, lines 19–20 ) (Anuṣṭubh)
oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya namaḥ ( MBh. 12.202, Appendix I, 17B, lines 21–22 )
anaṁtaṁ śāśvataṁ devam avyaktaṁ puruṣottamaṁ
prapadye prāṁjali!ṁ!<r> viṣṇum acyutaṁ parameśvaraṁ 9 ( MBh. Appendix I, 17B, lines 24–25 ) (Anuṣṭubh)
purāṇam puruṣaṁ viṣṇum anaṁtaṁ lokasākṣiṇaṁ
prapadye puṁḍarīkākṣam īśaṁ bhaktānukaṁpinaṁ 10 ( MBh. Appendix I, 17B, lines 26–27 ) (Anuṣṭubh)
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nāhaṁ vasāmi vaikuṁṭhe yogināṁ hṛdaye na ca
madbhaktā yatra gāyaṁti tatra tiṣṭhāmi nārada 71 (Anuṣṭubh)
vaiśaṁpāyanauvāca ..
evaṁ sa devadevena nāradaḥ pratibodhitaḥ
cakāra keśave bhaktiṁ tasmāt tvaṁ kuru bhūpate 72 (Anuṣṭubh)
saṁsāra eva sīmaṁto yaḥ svānāṁ kila kathyate
nanu dhyāyati yo dehī kathayāmi ca tatsukhaṁ 73 (Anuṣṭubh)
sarvabaṁdhavinirmuktaḥ paraṁ padam avāpnuyāt
yaḥ paṭhet prātar utthāya sa bhaved vaiṣṇavo naraḥ 74.. (Anuṣṭubh)

iti śrīmahābhārate śatasahasrasaṁhitāyāṁ anusmṛti<ḥ> samāptā .. ..
śubhaṁ bhavat .. ..