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 |
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. 9v–f. 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 |
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. |
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.. |
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. |
SubjectLC: | Mahābhārata – Anusmṛti. |
SubjectLC: | Manuscripts, Sanskrit – 19th century. |
SubjectLC: | Manuscripts – India – 19th century. |
SubjectSL: | Mahābhārata |
Whole image | Individual pages | |
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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 |