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Google to digitise Sanskrit manuscripts

Project funded by the Googlers
Wednesday, 23 May 2007, 11:22
THE HINDUSTAN TIMES said that Google has offered to digitise a vast treasure trove of 100,000 manuscripts stored in Mysore University.

The paper said the manuscripts include palm leaf and other MSS on mathematics, rhetoric, astrology and astronomy, jurisprudence and the rest.

Google will provide technical expertise to digitise the collection and may also throw some manpower into the project. µ

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Hindustan Times
Digital Library of India
Sanskrit documents collaborative effort to provide texts and transliteration of a wide variety of documents

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