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March 02, 2006: India: Library Preservation of Sanskrit Manuscipts Not Receiving Adequate State Funding
"And rush there fast, for lack of state funding could well mean these rare manuscripts will be history even at the well-stocked library, officials here said."
"The library stocks true copies of over 8,000 such original manuscripts, dating as far back as the 13th century, in Hindi, Bangla, Telugu, Tamil, Gurmukhi and Granth (an ancient script)."
"But ironically, the state government has no scheme to conserve, or even reprint, these manuscripts. And the little grant from the Union government is not enough to preserve the manuscripts, Dr Chandraprakash Dwivedi, Assistant Director of the Sansthan, said. 'Some of these manuscripts are invaluable, and we want to get them published (as books), but for the lack of funds...'”
