Today’s Times of India’s Title news (Bangalore Edition) gain my attention
which is regarding about Vedic Sanskrit manuscript of “Arthashatra” – The
History Vanishing.
Arthashatra is an ancient Indian treatise on statecraft, economic policy
and military strategy which identifies its author by the names Kautilya and
Viṣhṇugupta, who are traditionally identified with Chāṇakya (c. 350–283
BC), who was a scholar at Takshashila and later the prime minister of the
Maurya Empire.
And this article telling that the copy of this palm-leaf manuscripts, by
scholar Rudrapatnam Shamasastry who published it in 1909 are in poor shape
at Oriented REsearch Institute Library,Mysore.
“A century later, the 450-year-old manuscript is now peeling off. “It is in
great danger. There is not even a locker to keep it safe,” sources at ORI
informed The Times of India. The national treasure is merely wrapped in a
cloth and kept in a cabinet, they said. A lone guard keeps watch during
night at the institute. Arthashastra and about 60,000 other manuscripts at
the institute came close to being reduced to ashes in two fire accidents
sparked by short-circuit in 1996 and 1998. Sadly, till date, the
manuscripts have not been secured in fireproof chambers. A fumigation
machine donated by the Ford Foundation to protect manuscripts from insects,
fungi and algae is not working. ORI has neither funds nor autonomy, the
sources said. “There is a crisis, and we are seeking funds to address it,”
admitted ORI director M Shivakumaraswamy. “Presently, all we are doing to
preserve the manuscript is by way of oil treatment. But more needs to be
done.”
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Siji Sunny
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