Description of University of Pennsylvania Ms. Coll. 390 Item 1109: Kālāgnirudropaniṣad University of Pennsylvania These images and the content of Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts Ms. Coll. 390 Item 1109: Kālāgnirudropaniṣad are free of known copyright restrictions and in the public domain. See the Creative Commons Public Domain Mark page for usage details, http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/. Metadata is ©2018 University of Pennsylvania Books & Manuscripts and licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License version 4.0 (CC-BY-4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode. For a description of the terms of use see the Creative Commons Deed https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. Title from title page (f. 1r). Written in 9 lines per leaf. 3 leaves foliated 1-3, upper left and lower right verso. Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; verse dividers and metrical accents highlighted in red throughout; vertical margins marked with triple red line. Machine made paper with a watermark bearing some kind of crest (f. 3). 3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206. University of Pennsylvania Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts Ms. Coll. 390 Item 1109 9963242603503681 http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/898494217 http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/6324260 Manuscript is used for contemplation, study, consultation and recitation and is a mytho-poetic ritual manual presenting instruction for ritually putting ash on the body; presented in the form of a dialogue between the son of the Hindu deity Śiva, Sanatkumāra (known also as Skanda or Kārttikeya), and Kālāgnirudra, a form of Śiva. In Sanskrit Kālāgnirudropaniṣad कालाग्निरुद्रोपनिषद्

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 1 item (3 leaves) : 9 x 21 cm Rites and ceremonies--India Hindu mythology Kārttikeya (Hindu deity) Siva (Hindu deity) Śaivism Manuals (instructional materials) Poems Dialogues Watermarks Manuscripts, Sanskrit--18th century Manuscripts, Sanskrit--19th century Manuscripts--India--18th century Manuscripts--India--19th century