Post by James on Jun 3, 2014 5:12:13 GMT
I really hope this will be available online to the public.
India to digitize scripts
BHUBANESWAR: Thousands of significant Sanskrit and Hindi manuscripts including ancient Indian erotic literature written on palm leaves kept in University of the Punjab in Lahore and University of Dhaka will soon be digitized by India.
Director of National Mission for Manuscripts (NMM) Prafulla Mishra said NMM will sign a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Iran Culture House (ICH), New Delhi, for the digitization work. ICH has already been digitizing Persian and Arabian manuscripts in Lahore and Dhaka.
"After the MoU with NMM, it will also start scanning Sanskrit and Hindi texts on our behalf. We have already completed preliminary discussions with the cultural body," Mishra said.
Mishra said there were around 9,500 Sanskrit and Hindi scripts in Punjab University, the largest and oldest seat of higher learning in Pakistan established in 1882. The collection includes around 2,000 palm leaf writings. Besides Hindi and Sanskrit, the stock includes texts in Prakrit, Telugu, Sharada, Tamil, and Nandinagari languages.
According to information given on the Punjab varsity library website, the scripts called "Woolner collection of Sanskrit manuscripts" are those mostly collected by A C Woolner who was a professor of Sanskrit. He had preserved these in the Punjab University Oriental College. In 1913, the Oriental College Library was merged with the Punjab University library and the Sanskrit manuscript collection became part of the varsity library.
The subjects of these scripts include Kamashastra, Indian philosophy, justice, yoga and meditation, Buddhist philosophy, Sanskrit grammar and composition, Vedic literature and medicine, decorative art, sculpture and astronomy.
The over 90-year-old Dhaka University too has over 10,000 such texts. Some of these scripts are over 1,000-year-old while many others are of pre-independence era, Mishra said.
The NMM director said the repository of knowledge in the two varsities will be of great help to researchers. "Once scanned these texts can be made available online so that research scholars can access them," he said. The CD forms of the texts would be preserved at the National Archives of India. From various parts of the country and abroad, NMM has so far digitized 35 lakh manuscripts of over 1.50 crore pages.
India to digitize scripts
BHUBANESWAR: Thousands of significant Sanskrit and Hindi manuscripts including ancient Indian erotic literature written on palm leaves kept in University of the Punjab in Lahore and University of Dhaka will soon be digitized by India.
Director of National Mission for Manuscripts (NMM) Prafulla Mishra said NMM will sign a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Iran Culture House (ICH), New Delhi, for the digitization work. ICH has already been digitizing Persian and Arabian manuscripts in Lahore and Dhaka.
"After the MoU with NMM, it will also start scanning Sanskrit and Hindi texts on our behalf. We have already completed preliminary discussions with the cultural body," Mishra said.
Mishra said there were around 9,500 Sanskrit and Hindi scripts in Punjab University, the largest and oldest seat of higher learning in Pakistan established in 1882. The collection includes around 2,000 palm leaf writings. Besides Hindi and Sanskrit, the stock includes texts in Prakrit, Telugu, Sharada, Tamil, and Nandinagari languages.
According to information given on the Punjab varsity library website, the scripts called "Woolner collection of Sanskrit manuscripts" are those mostly collected by A C Woolner who was a professor of Sanskrit. He had preserved these in the Punjab University Oriental College. In 1913, the Oriental College Library was merged with the Punjab University library and the Sanskrit manuscript collection became part of the varsity library.
The subjects of these scripts include Kamashastra, Indian philosophy, justice, yoga and meditation, Buddhist philosophy, Sanskrit grammar and composition, Vedic literature and medicine, decorative art, sculpture and astronomy.
The over 90-year-old Dhaka University too has over 10,000 such texts. Some of these scripts are over 1,000-year-old while many others are of pre-independence era, Mishra said.
The NMM director said the repository of knowledge in the two varsities will be of great help to researchers. "Once scanned these texts can be made available online so that research scholars can access them," he said. The CD forms of the texts would be preserved at the National Archives of India. From various parts of the country and abroad, NMM has so far digitized 35 lakh manuscripts of over 1.50 crore pages.
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