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 (complete)

Locus:ff. 1r–21v
Author:Kṛṣṇa Dvaipāyana Vyāsa
Title:Anusmṛti
Cover rubric: f. 1r
anusmṛti
Incipit: f. 1v
śatānika uvāca ..
mahāmate mahāprājña sarvaśāstraviśārada ..
akṣīṇakarmabaṁdhas tu puruṣo dvijasattama ..1.. (Anuṣṭubh) (Ms. Coll.390, Item 489, verse 1)
Explicit: f. 20vf. 21r
āloḍya sarvaśāstrāṇi vicā!rpaṁcā!<rya ca> punaḥ punaḥ ..
idam ekaṁ suniṣpannaṁ dhyeyo nārāyaṇaḥ sadā ..98.. ( MBh. 13.124, Appendix I, no. 13, lines 20–21 ) (Anuṣṭubh)
namo brahmaṇyadevāya gobrāhmaṇahitāya ca ..
jagaddhitāya kṛṣṇāya goviṁdāya namo namaḥ ..99.. .. ( MBh. 13.135.142*639, lines 1–2 ) (Anuṣṭubh)
Final rubric: f. 21r
iti śrīmahābhārate 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 folia
Dimension:7 x 12.1 cm (h x w)
Foliation: Foliated in the upper left and lower right margins on the verso of each folio.
   Formula:1–21
   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 folio.
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
Seal: A circular stamp on the right of f. 1r and f. 21v reads Library University Pennsylvania.
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

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. 9r     f. 8v  f. 9r  
f. 9v, f. 10r     f. 9v  f. 10r  
f. 10v, f. 11r     f. 10v  f. 11r  
f. 11v, f. 12r     f. 11v  f. 12r  
f. 12v, f. 13r     f. 12v  f. 13r  
f. 13v, f. 14r     f. 13v  f. 14r  
f. 14v, f. 15r     f. 14v  f. 15r  
f. 15v, f. 16r     f. 15v  f. 16r  
f. 16v, f. 17r     f. 16v  f. 17r  
f. 17v, f. 18r     f. 17v  f. 18r  
f. 18v, f. 19r     f. 18v  f. 19r  
f. 19v, f. 20r     f. 19v  f. 20r  
f. 20v, f. 21r     f. 20v  f. 21r  
f. 21v     f. 21v  


Transcription (text structure)

anusmṛti
śrīgaṇeśāya namaḥ .. ..
śatānika uvāca ..
mahāmate mahāprājña sarvaśāstraviśārada ..
akṣīṇakarmabaṁdhas tu puruṣo dvijasattama ..1.. (Anuṣṭubh) (Ms. Coll.390, Item 489, verse 1)
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āloḍya sarvaśāstrāṇi vicā!rpaṁcā!<rya ca> punaḥ punaḥ ..
idam ekaṁ suniṣpannaṁ dhyeyo nārāyaṇaḥ sadā ..98.. ( MBh. 13.124, Appendix I, no. 13, lines 20–21 ) (Anuṣṭubh)
namo brahmaṇyadevāya gobrāhmaṇahitāya ca ..
jagaddhitāya kṛṣṇāya goviṁdāya namo namaḥ ..99.. .. ( MBh. 13.135.142*639, lines 1–2 ) (Anuṣṭubh)
iti śrīmahābhārate viṣṇudharmotta!ye!<re> anusmṛti samāptā