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Anusmṛti, circa 1700-1850.
अनुस्मृति
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Manuscripts Ms. Coll. 390 Item 2475
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- Format:
- Manuscript
- Standardized Title:
- Mahābhārata. Śāntiparva. Anusmṛti
- Language:
- Sanskrit
- Subjects (All):
- Epic literature, Sanskrit.
- Vishnu (Hindu deity).
- Vishnu.
- Worship (Hinduism).
- Hindu funeral rites and ceremonies.
- Genre:
- prayers (compositions)
- Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
- Manuscripts.
- Physical Description:
- 1 item (11 leaves) : paper ; 11 x 17 cm
- Contained In:
- Collection of Indic Manuscripts. Item 2475
- Other Title:
- Viṣṇudharmottara.
- Place of Publication:
- circa 1700-1850.
- १७००-१८५०.
- Language Note:
- In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)
- Summary:
- Selection of 74 verses from the Śāntiparvan of the Mahābhārata on the importance of remembering the Hindu deity Viṣṇu at death.
- Notes:
- Title from colophon (f. 10r); alternate title Viṣṇudharmottara also from colophon (f. 10r).
- Invocation, colophon, introduction of speakers, and double daṇḍas in red. Mistakes covered over with yellow.
- Colophon: iti śrīmahābhārate śatasahasrasaṃhitāyāṃ vaiyāśikyāṃ viṣṇudharmottare anusmṛtya sampūrṇam // śubhaṃ bhavat //
- Written in 7 lines per leaf.
- 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 849 (UP 2475).
- Cited as:
- UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 2475
- OCLC:
- 320371855
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