Maha Over 3400 rare manuscripts in 5 languages 11 scripts await conservation in Aurangabad varsity
Aurangabad Apr 21 PTI As many as 3414 rare manuscripts written in five languages and 11 scripts and which run into over eight lakh pages await conservation in a city-based university an official said on Thursday These manuscripts are in the custody of the Knowledge Resource Centre KRC of Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar Marathwada University he said Rare 3414 manuscripts containing over eight lakh pages are yet to be conserved This rare material written in five languages and 11 scripts can be made available to scholars amateurs and further generations if it is conserved in time KRCs director Dr Dharmaraj Veer told PTI These manuscripts are very old and the pages of some of them are now stuck to each other he said In order to digitise these rare documents we first need to conserve them There are 19 pictorial manuscripts 39 royal charters 92 engraved inscriptions 18 Marathi engraved inscriptions 48 antiquities and 3198 other manuscripts Veer added The manuscripts are mainly related to Warkari and Mahanubhav sects of Hinduism and date back to the period between 15th and 19th centuries These manuscripts reflect the social cultural and historical life of those times he said The manuscripts are written in Marathi Punjabi Sanskrit Urdu and Hindi They are in Modi Sundari Subhadra and Ank scripts among others Most of this material is not published and hence it holds a literary significance the official added We had earlier sent a proposal for the conservation of these manuscripts to our university and other institutions But nothing happened on that front so far We have a plan to conserve and digitise these manuscripts and to develop an art gallery for this rare material But this entire exercise would cost nearly Rs 462 crore Veer said Caretaker of these manuscripts Chakradhar Koti said This is a precious material and should be maintained for people so that they can study it The topics of these manuscripts are different and contain material related to Mahanubhav sect saint literature ayurveda astrology mathematics etc This material should be conserved in a scientific manner PTI AW NP NP
Aurangabad Apr 21 PTI As many as 3414 rare manuscripts written in five languages and 11 scripts and which run into over eight lakh pages await conservation in a city-based university an official said on Thursday These manuscripts are in the custody of the Knowledge Resource Centre KRC of Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar Marathwada University he said Rare 3414 manuscripts containing over eight lakh pages are yet to be conserved This rare material written in five languages and 11 scripts can be made available to scholars amateurs and further generations if it is conserved in time KRCs director Dr Dharmaraj Veer told PTI These manuscripts are very old and the pages of some of them are now stuck to each other he said In order to digitise these rare documents we first need to conserve them There are 19 pictorial manuscripts 39 royal charters 92 engraved inscriptions 18 Marathi engraved inscriptions 48 antiquities and 3198 other manuscripts Veer added The manuscripts are mainly related to Warkari and Mahanubhav sects of Hinduism and date back to the period between 15th and 19th centuries These manuscripts reflect the social cultural and historical life of those times he said The manuscripts are written in Marathi Punjabi Sanskrit Urdu and Hindi They are in Modi Sundari Subhadra and Ank scripts among others Most of this material is not published and hence it holds a literary significance the official added We had earlier sent a proposal for the conservation of these manuscripts to our university and other institutions But nothing happened on that front so far We have a plan to conserve and digitise these manuscripts and to develop an art gallery for this rare material But this entire exercise would cost nearly Rs 462 crore Veer said Caretaker of these manuscripts Chakradhar Koti said This is a precious material and should be maintained for people so that they can study it The topics of these manuscripts are different and contain material related to Mahanubhav sect saint literature ayurveda astrology mathematics etc This material should be conserved in a scientific manner PTI AW NP NP
