Manuscript Identifiers

Collection:UPenn Ms. Coll. 390
Item:2496
Repository:Rare Book & Manuscript Library
Institution:University of Pennsylvania
Location:Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Catalog:Poleman
Item:850

Contents

Work 1 (complete)

Locus:ff. 1r–14v
Author:Kṛṣṇa Dvaipāyana Vyāsa
Title:Anusmṛti
Part:Śāntiparvan
Cover rubric: f. 1r
anusmṛtiprāraṁbhaḥ ..
Incipit: f. 1v
śatānīka uvāca ..
mahāmate mahāprājña sarvaśāstraviśārada ..
akṣīṇakarmabaṁdhas tu puruṣo dvijasattama ..1. (Anuṣṭubh) (Ms. Coll.390, Item 489, verse 1)
Explicit: [[facs=f41v, locus=f. 14v]]
nanu dhyāyaṁti ye dehe kathayāmi ca tat sukhaṁ ..
sarvabaṁdhavinirmuktaḥ paraṁ padam avāpnuyāt ..7.6.. (Anuṣṭubh)
Final rubric: f. 14v
iti śrīmahābhārate śāṁtiparvaṇi śatasahasrasaṁhitāyāṁ viṣṇudharmotare anusmṛti<ḥ> saṁpūrṇa<ḥ>
Colophon:none
Note:The final rubric places the Anusmṛti in the Śāntiparvan of 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:Country-made paper
Extent:14 folia
Dimension:7.1 x 13.3 cm (h x w)
Foliation: Foliated in the lower right margin on the verso of each folio.
   Formula:1–14
   Signatures:a0 smṛ appears in the upper left margin on f. 1v, and anu0 in the upper left margin on the verso of each folio thereafter.
Collation: Single folia
Condition:Very good.
Binding: Unbound
Seal: A circular stamp on the right of f. 1r reads Library University Pennsylvania.
Layout:Written in 6 lines per page.

Hands

Hand 1:Written in clear, bold, irregular characters of varying size, tilted leftward in wavy lines.
Additions:

In Telugu script in the lower right margin on f. 1r is written śrīrāmāya

There a a few marginal corrections

There are many lengthy additions in the margins by a different hand inserting verses from what must be a different version of the same text. The text of the additions begins in the top margin of each page and continues clockwise in sequence in the right, bottom, and left margins. They begin on f. 2r, top margin in lines numbered in the transcript 1–2 and continue in the right margin in lines numbered 3–4. Similarly in the citation of the end of the additions: f. 14r, left margin, line 3, is the 10th line of the addition in the page and it continues onto the f. 14v top margin. f.2r
deva[vre](vra)taṁ mahāprājñaṁ sarvaśāstraviśāradaṁ .. praṇamya daṁḍavat bhūmau paprachedaṁ yudhiṣṭhiraḥ ..4.. yudhiṣṭhira u0 ..
pitāmaha mahāprājña sarvaśāstraviśārada .. pramāṇakā le kiṁ ciṁtyaṁ mokṣāya tatvadarśanaiḥ ..5.. f.14r
gatvā gatvā nivarttaṁte caṁ f.14v drasūryādayo grahāḥ .. adyāpi na nivarttaṁte dvādaśākṣaraciṁtakāḥ ..
na vāsudevāt param asti maṁgalaṁ na vā0t paramaṁ pāvanam .. f.14v na vāsude0 daivataṁ na vāsudevāt pra ṇipat prasīdati .. (Ms. Coll.390, Item 2666, verse 103)

cha ..

iti śrīmahā

A third hand has written on ?
sarvamaṁgalado kṛṣṇaṁ bhavati varado harir

iti ..

Decoration

Color:Invocation, rubric, 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. 14v  


Transcription (text structure)


anusmṛtiprāraṁbhaḥ ..
cha
śrīgaṇeśāya namaḥ ..
śatānīka uvāca ..
mahāmate mahāprājña sarvaśāstraviśārada ..
akṣīṇakarmabaṁdhas tu puruṣo dvijasattama ..1. (Anuṣṭubh) (Ms. Coll.390, Item 489, verse 1)
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nanu dhyāyaṁti ye dehe kathayāmi ca tat sukhaṁ ..
sarvabaṁdhavinirmuktaḥ paraṁ padam avāpnuyāt ..7.6.. (Anuṣṭubh) (74cd = Ms. Coll.390, Item 489, verse 74ab)

iti śrīmahābhārate śāṁtiparvaṇi śatasahasrasaṁhitāyāṁ viṣṇudharmotare anusmṛti<ḥ> saṁpūrṇa<ḥ>
cha