WEB PORTAL OF AYURVEDA MANUSCRIPTOLOGY

National Institute of Ayurveda

(Deemed To be University)

Ministry of AYUSH,

Govt. of India

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Notifications

PATRON – IN – CHIEF

Shri Prataprao Jadhav

Hon'ble Minister of State

(Independent Charge)

Ministry of Ayush.

PATRON

Secretary's Message

Ministry of AYUSH, since its inception, has the vision of promoting the traditional Indian medicinal system at the global level.

Vice-Chancellor's Message

It is a matter of immense pleasure to formally introduce the Department of Ayurveda Manuscriptology as an integral and promising endeavour of the "National Institute of Ayurveda, Deemed to be University, Jaipur"

About NIA & Nodal Agency

The National Institute of Ayurveda was established on 7th February 1976 by the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India. The Institute, an Autonomous Body under Department of AYUSH, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Govt. of India, is registered under the Rajasthan Societies Registration Act, 1958.The Institute is first of its An independent Ayurveda College was established in August 1946 by the Government of Rajasthan and this College was merged to form National Institute of Ayurveda known as NIA on 7th February 1976. This was one of the very few Ayurveda Colleges in the country to introduce Post-Graduate Education in Ayurveda as early as in 1970.

Aims & Objectives :

To collect, digitize and preserve available manuscripts of Ayurveda from governmental and non-governmental organizations/persons, To prepare a national database of Ayurveda manuscriptology, To prepare uniform policies throughout the country for the works related to manuscriptology, To carry out the courses on Ayurveda manuscriptology to produce trained Ayurveda research scholars, Editing and Publishing of unexplored manuscripts. To conduct regular national-level Beginners workshops, seminars and webinars on various scripts, methods of cataloguing and preservation.

What is a Manuscript?

The manuscript is derived from two words - "manu/manus" and "script" which means "hand" and "written" respectively. So, all..

What is Manuscriptology?

Manuscriptology - deals with manuscripts - its identification, cataloging, preservation, critical edition and upto publication.

Digitization of Manuscripts

Digitization Means acquiring, converting, storing and providing information in a computer format that is..

Roadmap to Manuscriptology

Digitize palm leaf using a scanner,Process the Image,Removal of Noise,Reconstruction of the Image if broken, Develop Optical Character Recognition software (OCR)

Textual Criticism

Higher criticism, is a branch of literary criticism that investigates the origins of ancient text in order to understand "the world behind the text"

Scribal Errors

Scribe is a writer, whether professional or amateur, of a text in manuscript. The scribe may or may not be the author or composer of the text in question;

MANUSCRIPT COLLECTIONS