ORIMSS

Author(s) :

Prof. R.B. Sreekala, Dr. Rejani R.S.

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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.

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