Mysuru: A full-fledged Fumigation Chamber to conserve rare palm-leaf manuscripts at the Oriental Research Institute (ORI) was inaugurated by the Minister for Higher Education, IT and BT Dr. C.N. Ashwathnarayan yesterday.
ORI, established 130 years ago, is a repository of thousands of manuscripts that date back to more than 700 years in languages including Sanskrit, Kannada, Tamil and Telugu. It also has 41,000 rare printed and other types of manuscripts. The manuscripts include the rarest and a complete treatise of Kautilya’s Arthashastra.
