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by this Institute was an interdisciplinary study of the temple city of Puri and the Jagannāth cult. The late A Eschmann, H. Kulke and G. C. Tripathi jointly published “The Cult of Jagannath and the Regional Tradition of Orissa”, New Delhi, 1978.
One of the major projects undertaken in Germany today is the cataloguing of all Oriental manuscripts in German universities, State libraries and private collections. W. Voigt, former head of the Oriental department of the State Library in Marburg began this task in 1959. W. Schubring had described the Jain texts 1944. K. L. Janert (Koeln) published a catalogue of Indian manuscripts in 1962, He also wrote “An annotated bibliography of the catalogues of Indian manuscripts", Wiesbaden, 1955, in which he listed 339 titles. E. Waldschmidt catalogued the Sanskrit manuscripts from Turfan. A. Wezler (Hamburg) heads the Nepal-German Manuscript Preservation Project. A number of studies have been undertaken. One of the aims of the project is the conservation of manuscripts.
ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION THROUGH AHIMSĀ
Increasing violence has created an imbalance at various trophic levels of the environment. Its protection is only possible by maintaining a triangular relationship among men, animals and plants. Unprecedented killing of animals and deforestation bave enhanced the problem enormously. These can be optimized by the ahimsak way of life, which includes the simple methods of living and positive attitude towards all forms of livings as desired by self. It also help in enhancing ethical, moral, social and even spiritual aspects of life. A non-vigilant man proceeds either into irrationality in which violence takes a course of law or mechanical automatism which lacks value-system.
Environment supports all living beings and help them in keeping their body and soul together for a particular period-life span. They need not be disturbed, deformed or even destroyed. It is, therefore necessary that our personal, social and even national life has to be planned in a way so as to minimise the disturbances in the life of other livingbeings.
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