TTD to speed up digitisation of ancient palm leaf texts, to decipher missing words
Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanams EO AV Dharma Reddy has directed officials of SV Manuscript Project to speed up the digitisation of ancient palm leaf scripts
TIRUPATI: Tirumala Tirupati DevasthanamsTirumala Tirupati Devasthanams(TTD) Executive Officer (EO) AV Dharma Reddy has directed officials of SV Manuscript Project to enter into agreements with Sri Venkateswara Vedic and National Sanskrit Universities for digitisation of all the available ancient palm leaf scripts.
Addressing a review meeting at SV Vedic University premises on Thursday, the EO said those which were already digitised should be published for the benefit of society by hiring a sufficient number of scholars for the task.
He asked officials to speed up the procurement of the manuscripts scanner offered by Shashidhar of Sanatana Jeevan Trust and prepare a six months action plan for acquiring the manuscripts.
Among others, he instructed officials to prepare software to decipher the missing words and sentences in the manuscripts and also complete the scanning of 1,000 bundles of manuscripts among the pending lot in the next six months.
JEO Sada Bhargavi, Vice Chancellor of SVV University Rani Sadashiv Murty, Manuscript Project Special Officer Vijay Lakshmi, and University Registrar Acharya Radhe Shyam were also present.