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The India office parts were catalogued, with other Arabic manuscripts from India, by Otto Loth (1844–1881) and published in 1877. [7] After a considerable hiatus, Qureshi provided a summary of the collection in 1980, [8] but no in-depth analysis undertaken until 2016 when Overton examined some of the notations, seals and bindings. [9]
Pages in category "Indian manuscripts" The following 35 pages are in this category, out of 35 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A. Ain-i-Akbari;
Saraswathi Mahal Library, also called Thanjavur Maharaja Serfoji's Saraswathi Mahal Library is a library located in Thanjavur (Tanjore), Tamil Nadu, India.It is one of the oldest subsisting libraries in Asia [1] established during 16th century by the Nayak kings of Thanjavur and has on display a rare collection of Palm leaf manuscripts and paper written in Tamil and Sanskrit and a few other ...
Name Description Alternate Names Date Vedas: Sacred hymns on 5 supreme gods led by Surya, which are a large body of texts originating in ancient India.Composed in Vedic Sanskrit, the texts constitute the oldest layer of Sanskrit literature and the oldest scriptures of Hinduism.
On the Indian subcontinent, these collections were succeeded by those belonging to the Nawabs and Nizams of Rampur, Avadh, Arcot, Bhopal, Hyderabad and Tonk. [3] Nawab Kalb Ali Khan (1865–1887) was interested in the collection of rare manuscripts, paintings and specimens of Islamic calligraphy. He was a scholar and poet.
The National Mission for Manuscripts (NAMAMI) is an autonomous organisation under Ministry of Culture, Government of India, established to survey, locate and conserve Indian manuscripts, with an aim to create national resource base for manuscripts, for enhancing their access, awareness and use for educational purposes. [2]
Since 1886 there have been systematic attempts to collect and catalogue these inscriptions, along with the translation and publication of documents. [15] Inscriptions may be in the Brahmi or Tamil-Brahmi script. Royal inscriptions were also engraved on copper-plates as were the Indian copper plate inscriptions.
Oriental Research Institute & Manuscripts Library (ORIMSS) is an academic department of the University of Kerala dedicated for Indology. It is located at Kariavattom, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala. The institute carry out researches on Indian manuscripts, about 80% of which are in Sanskrit. The department is microfilming the manuscripts of certain ...