Manuscript Identifiers

Collection:UPenn Ms. Coll. 390
Item:2475
Repository:Rare Book & Manuscript Library
Institution:University of Pennsylvania
Location:Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Catalog:Poleman
Item:849

Contents

Work 1 (complete)

Locus:ff. [0]r-[11]v
Author:Kṛṣṇa Dvaipāyana Vyāsa
Title:Anusmṛti
Rubric: f. [0]r
.. anusmṛtyaprāraṁbhaḥ ..
Incipit: f. 1v
śatānīka uvāca ..

mahātejo mahāprājña sarvaśāstraviśārada ..
akṣīṇakarmabaṁdhas tu puruṣo dvijasattama ..1.. (Anuṣṭubh) (Ms. Coll.390, Item 489, verse 2)
maraṇe yaj japej jāpyaṁ yaṁ ca bhāvam anusmaret ..
paramaṁ padam āpnoti tan me brūhi suniścitaṁ ..2.. (Anuṣṭubh) (Ms. Coll.390, Item 489, verse 2)
Explicit: f. 10r
sarvatīrtheṣu yat puṇyaṁ sarvadāneṣu yat phalaṁ ..
sarvabaṁdhavinirmuktaḥ paraṁ padam avāpnuyāt ..74.. (Anuṣṭubh)
Final rubric: f. 10rf. 10v
iti śrīmahābhārate śatasāhasryasaṁhitāyāṁ vaiyyāśikyāṁ viṣṇudharmottare anusmṛtya saṁpūrṇam ..
Final rubric: f. 11v
.. anusmṛtya samāptaḥ ..
Colophon:none
Note:The final rubric places the Anusmṛti, which it calls Anusmṛtya (absolutive rather than action noun), 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:12 folia
Dimension:10.3 x 16.1 cm (h x w)
Foliation: Foliated in the upper left and lower right margins on the verso of each folio 1–10.
   Formula:[0], 1–10, [11]
   Signatures:a0 appears above the folio number in the upper left margin, and rāma0 appears above the folio number in the lower right margin on the verso of each numbered folio.
Collation: Single and paired folios: [0] and 1, 4 and 5, and 10 and [11] are attached in pairs.
Formula:[0]–1, 2, 3, 4–5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10–[11]
Condition:Very good with browned edges.
Binding: Unbound
Seal: A circular stamp on the right of the front cover and the back reads Library University Pennsylvania.
Layout:Written in 7 lines per page.

Hands

Hand 1:Written in clear, bold, regular characters tilted leftward in the same hand as Upenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 2476 and Upenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 2334.
Additions:

Mistakes covered over with yellow.

Decoration

Color:Invocation, final rubric, introduction of speakers, and double daṇḍas are written in red. Mistakes are covered over with yellow.
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

Record history

Revised: 5 March 2012

Facsimile  (work )

Whole image     Individual pages
f. [0]r     f. [0]r  
f. [0]v, f. 1r     f. [0]v  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. [11]r     f. 10v  f. [11]r  
f. [11]v     f. [11]v  


Transcription (text structure)

.. anusmṛtyaprāraṁbhaḥ ..
śrīgaṇeśāya namaḥ ..
śatānīka uvāca ..

mahātejo mahāprājña sarvaśāstraviśārada ..
akṣīṇakarmabaṁdhas tu puruṣo dvijasattama ..1.. (Anuṣṭubh) (Ms. Coll.390, Item 489, verse 2)
maraṇe yaj japej jāpyaṁ yaṁ ca bhāvam anusmaret ..
paramaṁ padam āpnoti tan me brūhi suniścitaṁ ..2.. (Anuṣṭubh) (Ms. Coll.390, Item 489, verse 2)
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sarvatīrtheṣu yat puṇyaṁ sarvadāneṣu yat phalaṁ ..
sarvabaṁdhavinirmuktaḥ paraṁ padam avāpnuyāt ..74.. (Anuṣṭubh) (74cd = Ms. Coll.390, Item 489, verse 74ab)
iti śrīmahābhārate śatasāhasryasaṁhitāyāṁ vaiyyāśikyāṁ viṣṇudharmottare anusmṛtya saṁpūrṇam ..
śubhaṁ bhavat ..
.. anusmṛtya samāptaḥ ..