Anusmṛtiratna, 1800s; अनुस्मृतिरत्न,१८००-१८९९

Date:

1800

Description:

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

Language:

Sanskrit

Subject:

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

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

Prayers; Manuscripts, Sanskrit; Manuscripts

Physical Description:

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

Rights:

https://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/

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.; In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Physical Location:

Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Manuscripts, Ms. Coll. 390

Collection:

Collection of Indic Manuscripts