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   From: alt.fan.jai-maharaj@googlegroups.com   
      
   Rare manuscripts, easy view   
      
   By I. P. Singh, TNN   
   The Times of India   
   Sunday, August 2, 2015   
      
   As the country reels under the challenges of sustainable   
   water quality management in rural India and Prime Minster   
   Narendra Modi adopts clean Ganga mission, some cues on   
   how to do it could be taken from the over 8-century-old   
   text Tadaga Utsarg Vidhi, roughly translated as General   
   Rules for Pond Management. Written in Maithili language   
   in devnagri script, this text was written in 1173-74 on   
   paper and has 24 pages. Neatly preserved at the   
   Vishveshvaranand Vishva-Bandhu Institute of Sanskrit and   
   Indological Studies (VVBIS & IS) at Sadhu Ashram on the   
   outskirts of Hoshiarpur, the rare manuscript is among the   
   more than 2,000 others that would soon be catalogued   
   online.   
      
   "National Manuscripts Mission has digitized these   
   manuscripts and work is on to put the catalogue of our   
   rare and old books online. That would be a great treasure   
   of Sanskrit literature as around 1.30 lakh books crossing   
   over to the virtual world," said Dr Shiv Kumar Verma,   
   deputy librarian at VVIBS & IS. These will also include   
   the around 1,000 photocopies of rare manuscripts whose   
   owners refused to part with the original ones.   
      
   [...]   
      
   Ayurved granth, Madanparijat, written on bhoj patras in   
   Sharda script with leather binding; Ramcharitra Manas in   
   Gurmukhi script; a manuscript on handmade paper carrying   
   description of horses and their diseases with sketches   
   detailing diseases; a 22-yard horoscope of a Patiala   
   royal written in Sanskrit Garhwali; all 700 Gita shlokes   
   handwritten on a single page that can be read only with a   
   magnifying glass and some manuscripts in South Indian   
   languages -- Digitizing was a much-needed step. More so   
   as time flies and leaves it marks on the manuscript,   
   rendering them brittle, damaged, illegible.   
      
   [...]   
      
   Continues at:   
      
   http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/chandigarh/Rare-manuscri   
   ts-easy-view/articleshow/48313464.cms   
      
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