International Library: Appeal for books and manuscripts

[Joydeep Mitra]

India News Network Digest    Thu, 15 Feb 96      Volume 2 : Issue 758

Date: Tue, 13 Feb 1996 21:31:52 +0530
From: S Ramani <ramani at soochak.ncst.ernet.in>

#3  International Library: Appeal for books and manuscripts

      New Delhi, Feb 13 (PTI) Sri Chandrasekharendra Saraswati Viswa Maha 
Vidyalaya, a deemed University named after Paramachcarya of Kanchi 
Kamakoti Peetam in Tamil Nadu, has appealled for contributions including 
books and manuscripts to help it in effectively integrating world culture.
    An international library, set up as part of the deemed University, 
seeks to synthesise and correlate traditional scientific and analytical 
knowledge expounded in Sanskrit and other languages of Bharat, and the 
scientific knowledge of the modern age and to prove the need for both.
    Already a store house of more than 50,000 books, the library aims at 
promoting research in integrating the traditional knowledge of the hoary 
past and the modern scientific and technological studies and to bring out 
their contemporary relevance through applied sciences.
    The deemed University and the library have been working to promote 
research in Indian culture, religion and philosophy and propagate their 
value to all sections of people in the country and abroad too, library 
functionaries said here today.
    Books on veda, vedanga, darsana, purana, ayurveda, silpa, arthasasthra,
kavya, music, folklore, temples, history, astrology, science, electronics,
communication, mathematics, commerce, business administration, management,
behavioural sciences and other subjucts are being acquired in the library.
    In addition, there are over 5000 palmleaf manuscripts on a wide range 
of subjects which are being processed for microfilming.
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