Kalagni Rudra Upanishad information

Kalagni Rudra Upanishad
Kalagni Rudra Upanishad
	A text discusses the Tripundra lines on the forehead
Devanagari	कालाग्निरुद्र
IAST	Kālāgni Rudrā
Title means	Shiva (composite of Agni and Rudra)
Type	Shaiva
Linked Veda	Krishna Yajurveda
Chapters	2

The Kalagni Rudra Upanishad (Sanskrit: कालाग्निरुद्र - उपनिषत्), is one of the minor Upanishads of Hinduism, written in the Sanskrit language. It is attached to the Krishna Yajurveda.^[3] It is one of 14 Shaiva Upanishads.^[2]

The Upanishad is a discourse by Kalagni Rudra (Shiva) to sage Sanatkumara on the Tripundra, the Shaiva sectarian tilaka consisting of three horizontal lines of sacred ash on the forehead. The allegorical significance of the "three ash lines", states Deussen, is that the tradition sees them as streaks of three Vedic fires, three audible syllables of AUM, three Guṇas, three worlds, three Atmans, three Vedas and three aspects of Shiva.^[4] The text extols the Tripundra and tells about the procedure for applying Vibhuti (sacred ash) as Tripundra on various parts of the body with the associated mantras and rites.

Klaus Klostermaier classifies the Kalagni Rudra Upanishad with the Bhasmajabala Upanishad, the Rudrakshajabala Upanishad, the Brihajjabala Upanishad and the Akshamalika Upanishad as Shaiva texts that explain sectarian symbolism in Shaivism.^[5]

^ J Muir, Original Sanskrit Texts on the Origin and History of the People of India, p. PA336, at Google Books, Trubner & Co.
^ ^a ^b ^c Tinoco 1997, pp. 87–88.
^ Farquhar, John Nicol (1920), An outline of the religious literature of India, Oxford university press, p. 364, ISBN 81-208-2086-X
^ Deussen 1997, pp. 789–790.
^ Klostermaier 1984, pp. 134, 371.

[1] J Muir, Original Sanskrit Texts on the Origin and History of the People of India, p. PA336, at Google Books, Trubner & Co.

[FOOTNOTETinoco199787–88-2] Tinoco 1997, pp. 87–88.

[3] Farquhar, John Nicol (1920), An outline of the religious literature of India, Oxford university press, p. 364, ISBN 81-208-2086-X

[FOOTNOTEDeussen1997789–790-4] Deussen 1997, pp. 789–790.

[FOOTNOTEKlostermaier1984134,_371-5] Klostermaier 1984, pp. 134, 371.

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