Now, you can view rare Indian manuscripts in the comfort of your house by a click of the mouse. The National Mission for Manuscripts (NMM) recently launched an online database with information about almost 1.8 lakh rare manuscripts. The database was launched by Union minister for tourism and culture, Ambika Soni.
The website www.namami.org allows access to manuscripts that were kept in approximately 30,000 public and private collections across India including monasteries, university libraries, private homes, madarsas, temples and bhandaras. The database will provide information about various aspects of each manuscript such as title, author, commentary, language, script, description etc.
Said an NMM official: ``Apart from giving people full access to these rare texts, we also wanted to do something to preserve millions of neglected manuscripts.''
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