Manuscript Identifiers

Collection:UPenn Ms. Coll. 390
Item:2666
Repository:Rare Book & Manuscript Library
Institution:University of Pennsylvania
Location:Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Catalog:Poleman
Item:851

Contents

Work 1 (complete)

Locus:ff. 1v–8r
Author:Kṛṣṇa Dvaipāyana Vyāsa
Title:Anusmṛti
Incipit: f. 1v
śatā!ni!<nī>ka uvāca ..
mahāmate mahāprājña sarvaśāstraviśāradaḥ ..
akṣīṇakarmavaṁdhas tu puruṣo dvijasattama ..1.. (Anuṣṭubh) (Ms. Coll.390, Item 489, verse 1)
Explicit: f. 8r
na vāsudevāt param asti maṁgalaṁ
nā vāsudevāt param asti pāvanaṁ ..
na vāsudevāt param asti daivataṁ
taṁ vāsudevaṁ praṇamaṁ na sīdati ..103.. (Jagatī)
imāṁ rahasyāṁ paramām anusmṛtiṁ
yo <'>dhītya vuddhiṁ labhate ca naiṣṭikīṁ ..
vihāya pāpān vinimucya saṁkaṭāt
sa vītarāgauvi!ṁda!<>caran mahīm imāṁ ..104.. ( MBh. Appendix I, 17B, lines 168–171 ) (Jagatī)
Final rubric: f. 8r
iti śrīmahābhārate śatasahasrasaṁhitāyāṁ vaiyāśakyāṁ anusāsanike dānadhamau viṣṇur anusmṛtistotra saṁpūrṇaṁm
Colophon:none
Note:The final rubric places the Anusmṛti in the Anuśāsanaparvan of the Mahābhārata. Yet the work is not included in the text of the Pune critical edition of the Mahābhārata. The final verse corresponds with the final verse of Vol. 12's Appendix I no. 17B which likewise calls itself the Anusmṛti, but that passage has significant differences. 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:Country-made paper
Extent:8 folia
Dimension:11.8 x 23.6 cm (h x w)
Foliation: Foliated in the upper left and lower right margins on the verso of each folio except the last, f. 8 is foliated on the recto. The front and back pages, f. 1r and f. 8v are blank.
   Formula:1–8
   Signatures:a0 appears above the number in the upper left margin on each numbered page.
Collation: Single folia
Condition:Very good. The edges of folios 6 (f. 6r, f. 6v) and 8 (f. 8r, f. 8v) have minor tears and f. 7 (f. 7r, f. 7v) has two wrinkles in the bottom margin. The back, f. 8v, is stained.
Binding: Unbound
Seal: A circular stamp on the right of f. 1r reads Library University Pennsylvania and beside it is a white label on which is hand-written No. 2666.
Layout:Written in 8 lines per page.

Hands

Hand 1:Written in clear, bold, erect characters of inconsistent size in wavy lines.
Additions:

There are no additions in another hand. Mistakes are rubbed out and written over or covered with yellow. A missing verse 29 in anuṣṭubh meter is added in the top margin on f. 3r and inserted by indication of a wedge between verse 28 and 30 in the same hand.

Decoration

Color:Invocation, final rubric, introduction of speakers and double daṇḍas are written in red. Some mistakes are covered with yellow.
Border:Vertical orange bands flanked by two sets of double black 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. 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. 8v  


Transcription (text structure)

śrīgaṇeśāya namaḥ ..

śatā!ni!<nī>ka uvāca ..
mahāmate mahāprājña sarvaśāstraviśāradaḥ ..
akṣīṇakarmavaṁdhas tu puruṣo dvijasattama ..1.. (Anuṣṭubh) (Ms. Coll.390, Item 489, verse 1)
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na vāsudevāt param asti maṁgalaṁ
nā vāsudevāt param asti pāvanaṁ ..
na vāsudevāt param asti daivataṁ
taṁ vāsudevaṁ praṇamaṁ na sīdati ..103.. (Jagatī)
imāṁ rahasyāṁ paramām anusmṛtiṁ
yo <'>dhītya vuddhiṁ labhate ca naiṣṭikīṁ ..
vihāya pāpān vinimucya saṁkaṭāt
sa vītarāgauvi!ṁda!<>caran mahīm imāṁ ..104.. ( MBh. Appendix I, 17B, lines 168–171 ) (Jagatī)
iti śrīmahābhārate śatasahasrasaṁhitāyāṁ vaiyāśakyāṁ anusāsanike dānadhamau viṣṇur anusmṛtistotra saṁpūrṇaṁm