Punjab University Chandigarh Scanning Begins and 146 Items are ready for Viewing
All credit to making this Center a possibility goes to Prof Shankarji Jha and Mrityunjay Kumar ji the Manuscript Dept Officer. It took me no convincing to Mrityunjaya Kumar ji as Prof Jha did all the background introduction of our work and we just had to walk in and setup the Center. May All Manuscript curates in India be like Mrityunjaya ji and our Collective Dream to democratize knowledge and free them will happen so much more easily.
The following is the Link for Punjab University Manuscripts:
25 Items are in Sharada:
68 Items are in Devanagari:
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Two Items are in Persian
43 Items are in Gurumukhi:
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Notables were:
Circa 10th Century Kashmiri Astronomer Bhattotapala’s Samhita Vivritti
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Kalila wa Damna, the Persian Translation of Pancha Tantra.
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Vishnu Dharmottara Purana in Sharada, a 1.64 GB Text with 1174 Folios.
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Pls view the Complete Catalog here:
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Any wishlists of Scholars we will be happy to honor.
Almira 3 of Raghnath Temple Library, Jammu Is Completed
Almira 3 with its preponderance of Kavya Shastra ( Rhetorics )Texts and Sanskrit Literature is now completed and can be viewed below
viewable here:
Rather unfortunately due to a oversight Alm-3 Manuscripts in the beginning got lumped with Alm-2 Manuscripts, therefore some of the Almira 3 texts are actually in the Link for Alm-2 below – which will explain the rather large count of 510 Items.
Books and Manuscripts from Private Collections:
Three Private Collectors honored us with access to there Collections
(1) Pran Nath Kaul, Srinagar
Thanks to Sunil Raina Rajanak who liased on our behalf with Shri Pran Nath Kaul – Disciple of Swami Lakshman Joo – we have recieved many rare books and Sharada Manuscripts from his Collection:
The following are 5 Sharada Texts:
These are three lost Keshava Bhatt Kashmiri Texts that we found in his house:
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(2) Shashi Shekhar Toshkhani Collection, New Delhi
Found several gems here.
Toshkhanijis Long Out of Print Classic
A History of Kashmiri Literature:
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Transcripts of 2 Medieval Kashmiri Works that Toshkhaniji decades ago jotted down in pen and Paper from BORI, – for the First Time in History now accesible to these forgotten pages of Kashmirian Literature:
Sukh Dukh Moha Maya Charitam and Banasura Vadha
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Another Long Out of Print Kashmiri Krishna Avatara Lila 1928
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Sharada Manuscripts:
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(3) Prem Sagar Shastri
Pt. Prem Sagar Shastri was a Sanskrit Scholar from Punjab who translated many texts into Hindi. Few of his books we have received, viewable below – and more soon from his Village Baddi, near Chandigarh.
eGangotri Digital Preservation Trust 