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 colophon (f. 2a).The manuscript is written in 9–10 lines per leaf. 2 leaves are foliated 1-2, upper left and lower right verso. Manuscript on machine-made paper with a watermark of an 18 that is cut off, most likely referring to the 1800s, as is typical on such stocks of paper. Mistakes are blacked out. The manuscript is dated in the 19th century based on the watermark, which refers to the 19th century without giving the decade.