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Early Times Report
Jammu, Apr 15- To save most valuable cultural inheritance, the Jammu and Kashmir Academy of Art, Culture and Languages launched a new mission to catalogue and preserve rare manuscripts of all the regions of the State in Jammu. This first ever Mission has been launched to collect data on Manuscripts housed in a variety of places, including Shrines, Temples, Matthas, Madrasas, Monasteries and private collections.
Giving details Zaffar Iqbal Manhas, Secretary, State Academy of Art, Culture and languages told here today that our “Mission for Manuscripts” is a prestigious project to catalog State’s ancient documentary wealth and ensure that basic conservation practices are followed to halt their rapid decay. The main objective of the project is digitalization, microfilming and cataloguing of J&K’s Manuscripts wealth by using latest available technology at global level, he added.
He said that we have the largest repository of manuscripts in the Northern India, with an estimated 20 thousand texts in dozens of languages. He added that Academy will involve writers and religious scholars in this adventurous hunt for ancient volumes in order to use it not only to expertise but also social skills, coaxing and cultural sensitivity to gain access to wonderful Manuscripts.
Zaffar said we have 5000 year history at our back that is why the oldest manuscripts that India possesses are a set of sixth century Buddhist texts were found buried in the hills of Kashmir about 60 years ago. Our researchers have found rare ancient Sanskrit, Tibetan, Arabic and Persian treatises on such subjects as diabetes, astrophysics, interpretation of dreams, surgical instruments, concepts of time and the art of war, we want to catalog and preserve the same for all generations to come, he added .
He said, after hunt we would promote and facilitate research and scholarship based on Manuscripts and the wealth of knowledge that lies therein. He said under this mission we will enhance the access to the manuscripts, improve awareness about cultural inheritance and encourage the use of manuscripts for educational and research purpose and lifelong learning; and also provide conservation and preservation of manuscripts through training, awareness and financial support.
In addition to this, we are going to document and catalogue manuscripts, wherever they may be, maintain accurate and up-to-date information about them and the conditions under which they may be consulted and to promote ready access to these manuscripts through publication, both in book form as well as machine readable form, Zaffar said.
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