Anusmṛtiratna, 1800s.
अनुस्मृतिरत्न

Format:

Manuscript

Standardized Title:

Mahābhārata. Śāntiparva. Anusmṛti

महाभारत शान्तिपर्व अनुस्मृति.

Language:

Sanskrit

Subjects (All):

Epic literature, Sanskrit.

Vishnu (Hindu deity).

Worship (Hinduism).

Hindu funeral rites and ceremonies.

Genre:

prayers (compositions)

Manuscripts, Sanskrit.

Manuscripts.

Physical Description:

1 item (18 leaves) : paper ; 11 x 16 cm

Contained In:

Collection of Indic Manuscripts. Item 2388

Other Title:

Viṣṇudharmottara.

Place of Publication:

1800s.

१८००-१८९९.

Language Note:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Selection of 99 verses from the Śāntiparvan of the Mahābhārata on the importance of remembering the Hindu deity Viṣṇu at death.

Notes:

Title from title page (f. 1r); alternate title Viṣṇudharmottara from colophon (f. 19r).

Written in 7 lines per leaf.

Colophon: goviṃdeti sadā snānaṃ goviṃdeti sadā japaḥ // goviṃdeti sadā dhyānaṃ sadā goviṃdakīrttanaṃ // (f. 18v) // 99 // iti śrīmahābhārate śasahasrasaṃhitāyāṃ vaiyyāsikyāṃ śāṃti parvaṇi viṣṇudharmottare śaunakāśatānikasaṃvāde viṣṇunoktā vedānusmṛtiḥ saṃpūrṇaṃ // śrī kṛṣṇārpaṇam astu // ratna // 4 // śrīrāma // (f. 19r)

Invocation, colophon, introduction of speakers, and double daṇḍas in red. Mistakes covered over with yellow. Orange powder rubbed over numbers.

Non-Latin script record.

Cited in:

Listed in H. I. Poleman, Census of Indic Manuscripts in the United States and Canada (New Haven, Conn.: American Oriental Society, 1938), Poleman 846 (UP 2388).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 2388

OCLC:

320371558