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February 07, 2006: India: Rare Books in Khuda Baksh Library: "More Precious than all Diamonds"

"“It is my fortune that I visited this unique library today. I am very happy to see that rare manuscripts have been preserved here so carefully. These treasures are more precious than all diamonds taken together. These manuscripts keep us abreast with our culture and history,” the governor who went to visit the Khuda Baksh library after the swearing-in ceremony."

"The library, a central institution, has an impressive collection of old Islamic works on literature, culture and history and also stores a seventh-century handwritten manuscript of the Quran."

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