Millions and millions of manuscripts, the cultural repositories of India were destroyed by the foreign invaders with an intention of putting an end to our culture. But Indian culture belonging to a hoary past and deep-rooted in Indian minds could not be put an end to by these invaders. Indians, who valued the invaluable knowledge base, they possessed and protected it from the onslaughts of these foreign invaders even sacrificing their own lives. That is the reason why we are still left with innumerable number of manuscripts all over India in the institutional and individual holdings.
After the advent of the Britishers, who at least knew the value of this invaluable treasure trove, many manuscripts were taken away from India and safely deposited in distinguished European libraries the copies of which can be obtained even today by paying the prescribed fee. We should not grudge paying this fee because they have meticulously preserved this valuable treasure.
Millions and millions of manuscripts, the cultural repositories of India were destroyed by the foreign invaders with an intention of putting an end to our culture. But Indian culture belonging to a hoary past and deep-rooted in Indian minds could not be put an end to by these invaders. Indians, who valued the invaluable knowledge base, they possessed and protected it from the onslaughts of these foreign invaders even sacrificing their own lives.
That is the reason why we are still left with innumerable number of manuscripts all over India in the institutional and individual holdings.
Academy of Sanskrit Research, known for the bridge building of the past and the present has collected more than 10,000 Palm-leaf manuscripts and preserving the same with meticulous care for posterity. It has also undertaken the task of preparing the descriptive catalogue of the manuscripts to help scholars and seekers of knowledge to identify the required information. So far, it has published three descriptive catalogues of Sanskrit Vedanta and Texts, Dravida and Vedānta and Viśişțādvaita vedänta and Dvaita and Advaita available in manuscript library.
The present effort, viz. Preparation of Descriptive Catalogues of the works on Veda and Upanisat works available in the Academy's library. I am also happy to place on record the dedicated efforts of Sri. S. Kumar, Registrar in terms of his constant monitoring of the progress of the work as well as Vid.H.S. Hanumantha Rao, Granthapala for his duly involvement in preparing this catalogue of manuscript. Now, it is placed in the hands of research scholars and seekers of knowledge.
The Academy of Sanskrit Research, established in Melkote, which is known as the holy Badarikashram of the South, for the intensive study and research in the field of Visistadvaita and its comparative study with other systems of thought, has taken up the preservation of our cultural heritage to the posterity as one of its prime objectives. Accordingly, the Academy is putting forth its sincere efforts to collect the old palm-leaf and paper manuscripts which are scattered all over the country, which need preservation. With this goal in view, the Academy is constantly improving its collection of manuscripts for last few decades and now the number of manuscripts so collected has risen to a considerably large number.
Though the Academy is interested in in-depth study of the Visistadvaita philosophy, it has spared no efforts to collect manuscripts belonging to other systems of Philosophy like the Veda and Upanisad.
The philosophy of Advaita is also referred to as the Acharya Shankara's School of Philosophy, and Dvaita is referred to as the Acharya Madhva's School of Philosophy, as they tried their best to propagate their preachings in India for the benefit of all.
The volume of the Descriptive Catalogue gives detailed descriptions of the manuscripts on Veda and Upanisat available in our Manuscript library.
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