Description of University of Pennsylvania Ms. Coll. 390 Item 728: Kālāgnirudropaniṣad University of Pennsylvania These images and the content of Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts Ms. Coll. 390 Item 728: 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 colophon (f. 2r); section title Vibhūtidhāraṇamantra associated with additional set of mantras on final folio (f. 2v). Written in 15-16 lines per leaf. 2 leaves foliated 1-2, upper left and lower right verso. Dated saṃvat 1893 (1837) (f. 2r). Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins. Non-Latin script record. 3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206. University of Pennsylvania Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts Ms. Coll. 390 Item 728 9956438163503681 http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/782922068 http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/5643816 Styled after the upaniṣads, though of a late origin, likely written in the 9th or 10th century A.D. Contains a variety of mantras, especially the mantra Om̐; it refers to the well known Pravaṇava mantra, and mantras dedicated to various Hindu deities, especially those employed in devotion to forms of Śiva (such as Nandikeśvara). Text aligns itself with the Nandikeśvarapurāṇa, also known as the Nāndīpurāṇa, an obscure purāṇa of uncertain provenance. Manuscript ends with a short series of mantras referred to as the Vibhūtidhāraṇamantra (f. 2v). In Sanskrit Kālāgnirudropaniṣad कालाग्निरुद्रोपनिषद् former owner Viṣṇudatta Lohatīka Colophon: iti śrī naṃdikeśvarapurāṇoktakālāgnirudropaniṣatsamaptam śubham samvat 1893 māse 5 pakṣe 2 bāre 1 tithau 2 likhitaṃ śubham viṣṇudattalohatīkasya pustakaṃ śubham svārthamevanānyasya // cha // śiva // harakālī // rāma // (f. 2r).

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 1 item (2 leaves) : 11 x 24 cm Formerly owned by Viṣṇudatta Lohatīka (f. 2r). Siva (Hindu deity) Devotional literature, Sanskrit Hindu mantras Prayers Hymns Manuscripts, Sanskrit--18th century Manuscripts, Sanskrit--19th century Manuscripts--India--18th century Manuscripts--India--19th century