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Palm-leaf manuscript written in Grantha script from the archives of Muktabodha

The Muktabodha Digital Library Project

WAS BEGUN IN 1995 AS A MANUSCRIPT MICROFILMING PROJECT FOCUSING MAINLY ON PHOTOGRAPHING AT-RISK AND RARE PALM-LEAF VEDIC SHRAUTA RITUAL MANUSCRIPTS FROM BOTH PRIVATE COLLECTIONS AND LIBRARIES. FROM THIS PHASE WE HAVE APPROXIMATELY 50,000 FRAMES OF MICROFILM IN OUR ARCHIVES. SINCE THAT TIME THE TECHNOLOGY USED AND THE FOCUS HAVE EVOLVED INTO DIGITALLY CAPTURING BOTH VEDIC SHRAUTA RITUAL AND MEDIEVAL SHAIVITE MANUSCRIPTS

PHASE I

MICROFILMI NG

PHASE II

KASHMIR SERIES OF TEXTS AND STUDIES

PHASE III

SEARCHABLE ELECTRONIC TEXTS

PHASE IV

MICROFILMI NG
Cover of a Baudhayana manuscript from the private collection of the Joglekar family of Gokarna, Maharashtra

Other On-Line Collections of Muktabodha

THE VEDIC MANUSCRIPTS OF GOKARNA

The majority of the Vedic manuscripts in the Muktabodha archives are palm-leaf manuscripts in Grantha script on microfilm and still await cataloguing. However one of Muktabodha's Vedic digitally photographed manuscript collections is in devanagari script on well preserved paper manuscripts. [ read more ]

THE DEVAKOTTAI SERIES

Also published in the Muktabodha's Digital Library are 24 volumes of the Shaiva Siddhanta Paripalana Sangha Devakottai Series, photographed from the collection of the French Institute of Pondicherry and from other private collections. [ read more ]

TANTRIC SEARCHABLE E-TEXTS FROM PRINTED EDITIONS BY SUDHAKAR MALAVIYA

Among the larger e-texts created from previously published editions are some core Tantric created from printed editions in devanagari created by Dr. Sudhakar Malaviya. [ read more ]