Anusmṛti, 1800s.
अनुस्मृति

Format:

Manuscript

Standardized Title:

Mahābhārata. Śāntiparva. Anusmṛti

महाभारत शान्तिपर्व अनुस्मृति.

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 (14 leaves) : paper ; 8 x 14 cm

Contained In:

Collection of Indic Manuscripts. Item 2496

Other Title:

Viṣṇudharmottara.

Place of Publication:

1800s.

१८००-१८९९.

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. 14v); alternate title Viṣṇudharmottara also from colophon (f. 14v).

Invocation, colophon, introduction of speakers, and double daṇḍas in red; a few marginal corrections and many very lengthy additions in margins, possibly a commentary; Telugu script in margin (f. 1r).

Written in 6 lines per leaf.

Colophon: iti śrīmahābhārate śāṃtiparvaṇi śatasahasrasaṃhitāyāṃ viṣṇudharmottare anusmṛtya sampūrṇam //

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 850 (UP 2496).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 2496

OCLC:

320537710