Mysuru: The century-old Oriental Research Institute (ORI) in the city that comes under University of Mysore, a treasure trove of ancient palm leaf and paper manuscripts, is all set to digitise its collection and preserve them for posterity.
To be taken up in a phase-wise manner, the digitisation entails scanning and copying some of the oldest extant texts in Sanskrit, including Kautilya’s ‘Arthashastra’ which was discovered in the ORI collection in 1905 by R. Shamashastry and first published in 1909.
