SAMHiTA Project

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India and Sri Lanka are strengthening their cultural cooperation through the preservation of their shared Buddhist heritage, with the launch of the SAMHiTA Project at Colombo’s Gangaramaya Temple.

About SAMHiTA Project

• The SAMHiTA (South Asian Manuscript Histories and Textual Archive) Project is an initiative to create a relational database and digital archive of Indian and broadly South Asian manuscripts housed in libraries, archives, and other repositories outside India, through collaboration with institutional partners. 
• The word ‘samhita’ in Sanskrit means ‘collection’ or ‘compilation’. SAMHiTA’s goal is to consolidate information dispersed across institutions on an online platform accessible to all. 
• The information collected will be shared on PANDiT: Prosopographical Database of Indic Texts and Records, a database on South Asian intellectual history. 
• The initiative is being undertaken by the India International Centre in New Delhi, with grant assistance from the Government of India and is supported by the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA).
• It aims to digitise ancient manuscripts and preserve their historical, religious, and cultural knowledge for future generations. 
• It is the first attempt to bring together repositories from outside India and South Asia on a common platform.

News: DD

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