Kālāgnirudropaniṣad

The manuscript is the Kālāgnirudropaniṣad.It is composed in the form of a dialogue between Sanatkūmāra and Kālāgnirudra. This Upaniṣad primarily focuses on the Bhasma-dhāraṇa Vidhi or Tripuṇḍra-dhāraṇa Vidhi. It is the ritual practice of applying sacred ash on the body. Title is taken from title page (f. 1a). The manuscript is written in 9 lines per leaf. 3 leaves are (f.1–3) upper left and lower right verso. Mistakes are 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).