Details

Standardized Title:

Mahābhārata. Śāntiparva. Anusmṛti

Other Title:

Viṣṇudharmottara.

Subjects:

Epic literature, Sanskrit.
Vishnu (Hindu deity).
Worship (Hinduism).
Hindu funeral rites and ceremonies.

Form/Genre:

Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
Manuscripts.

Language:

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 colophon (f. 21r); alternate title Viṣṇudharmottara also from colophon (f. 21r).
Invocation, colophon, introduction of speakers, and double daṇḍas in red.
Written in 5 lines per leaf.
Colophon: iti śrī mahābhārate viṣṇudharmotta[ra]ye anusmṛtisamāptā [/] (f. 21r).
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 848 (UP 2445).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 2445

OCLC:

320371654