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Shastri who is com osing 4 language dictionary at this age.
The workshop participants learnt a lot and were satisfied. Our purpose was to make aware of our cultural heritage contained in the manuscripts. The teachers and post graduate students in Culture, History, Philosophy, Sanskrit, Prakrit, Gujarati, Hindi and related disciplines were invited for the purpose. All of them at the end of workshop carried the message of awareness and achievement of something new. We want to educate most of the teachers and researchers of these disciplines in Gujarat to have the awarness about the Manuscripts, our old heritage.
The Workshop on Manuscriptology & Paleography Sponsored by National Mission for Manuscripts, New Delhi, 9th August 2004 to 21st August 2004. L. D. Institute of Indology, Ahmedabad-380 009.
The Workshop on Manuscriptology and Paleography, sponsored by National Mission for Manuscript, New Delhi was organized by L.D.Institute of Indology at Ahmedabad from 9th to 21st August 2004.
A major portion of knowledge about the ancient Indian cultural heritage still lies unexplored in the pages of hundreds of thousands of handwritten manuscripts lying within the confines of a large number of public and private collections. It goes without saying that if this knowledge is to be gained, we have to revert to a systematic survey, cataloguing, reading, editing and publication of the material contained therein.
L.D.Institute of Indology, Ahmedabad a forty seven years old premier Institute in the field of ancient Indian knowledge and culture has been designated as one of the Manuscript Resource Centre (MRC) and Manuscript Conservation Centre (MCC) by National Mission for Manuscripts, Dept. of Culture, Ministry of Tourism, Govt. of India for surveys listing, documenting and cataloguing the manuscripts. The Institute itself has a rich collection of 75000 manuscripts. L.D.I.I. has started the work of searching the manuscripts, cataloguing the available and searched manuscripts and also preservation of manuscripts in last one year. L.D.I.I. has made reasonable progress in its efforts. As a part of the project this workshop on “Manuscriptology and Paleography" was organized.
The basic purpose for organizing the workshop was to create awareness about the role of manuscripts in our cultural heritage, to teach Devnagari, Brahmi and Sharda scripts to the participants, to provide information about manuscripts
