Details

Other Title:

Kālāgnirudradīpikā.

Subjects:

Upanishads.
Vedas.
Vedas. Atharvaveda.
Vedas. Atharvaveda -- Selections.
Upanishads. Kālāgnirudropaniṣad.
Śaivism.
Devotional literature, Sanskrit.
Hindu mantras.
Rites and ceremonies -- India.
Rites and ceremonies.
India.

Form/Genre:

Commentaries.
Manuals (instructional materials)
Treatises.
Prayers.
Watermarks.
Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
Manuscripts.

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Biography/History:

Author referred to as Nārāyaṇa in the manuscript (f. 6v) and is most likely Nārāyaṇa Sarasvatī, also known as Abhinavanārāyaṇendrasarasvatī.

Summary:

Manuscript is used for contemplation and study and is a kind of manual and interpretive commentary (dīpikā) on the Kālāgnirudropaniṣad, parts of which are possibly drawn from the Atharvaveda. Work focuses in part on rules and regulations (Hindu law) surrounding the three vertical marks drawn on the foreheads of Śaiva initiates and called a puṇḍra, as well as different kinds of Hindu mantras used in rites and ceremonies and prayer.

Notes:

Title from incipit (f. 1r); alternate title Kālāgnirudradīpikā from colophon (f. 6v).
Written in 6-11 lines per leaf.
6 leaves foliated 1-6, upper left and lower right verso.
Colophon: iti kālāgnirudradīpikā samāptā // (f. 6v).
Paper is machine-made, possibly European, and has fragments of watermarks that may be part of a crest of some kind.
Mistakes blacked out; some additions and corrections in the margins.
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 513 (UP 953).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 953

OCLC:

889890855