Journal of Manuscript Studies – U.G.C .-CARE listed peer reviewed journal
Abstract
The Royal family of Travancore has evinced deep interest and
enthusiasm in the preservation of our cultural heritage, and as a direct
result of it the collection of manuscripts had been commenced from very
early times, and the publication of manuscripts was begun in 1904. A
separate Department for the Publication of Oriental Manuscripts was
established in the state in 1908 under the supervision of the distinguished
scholar Mahamahopadhyaya Dr. T. Ganapati Sastri. Collection and
publication of manuscripts have been continued since then, and with the
formation of the Travancore University Oriental Manuscripts Library in
1940, into which this Department was absorbed, the number of works
collected has soared up to about 21,000, comprising works in Sanskrit,
Malayalam and Tamil, a collection which makes the Library one of the
foremost of its kind in India. There are a large number of important
works in the collection of recent years and some of these have been
undertaken for publication in Trivandrum Sanskrit Series issued form
this Library. But there are also several smaller works which deserve
early publication, and it is mainly with a view to publishing these that
this Journal has been started.
