{"id":5876,"date":"2022-12-22T06:40:16","date_gmt":"2022-12-22T01:10:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=5876"},"modified":"2025-03-27T11:26:29","modified_gmt":"2025-03-27T05:56:29","slug":"palm-leaf-manuscript-museum-to-be-inaugurated-in-kerela","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/palm-leaf-manuscript-museum-to-be-inaugurated-in-kerela\/","title":{"rendered":"Palm-Leaf Manuscript Museum to be inaugurated in Kerela"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Palm-Leaf Manuscript Museum:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It was set up by the Department of Archives, Kerala Government.<\/li>\n<li>The \u20b93-crore museum has <strong>eight theme-based galleries<\/strong> where select manuscripts from one of the biggest palm-leaf collections in the country will be displayed.<\/li>\n<li>As many as 187 old and rare manuscripts stored at Central Archives and the department\u2019s regional offices in Ernakulam and Kozhikode will be housed in the museum.<\/li>\n<li>The manuscripts in ancient scripts such as <strong>Vattezhuthu, Kolezhuthu, Malayanma, and ancient Tamil and Malayalam<\/strong> are present in the museum.<\/li>\n<li>The manuscripts which delve into aspects as diverse as tax, administration, and trade to education, prisons, and festivals in the erstwhile Travancore, Kochi, and Malabar provide a fascinating glimpse of history that is rarely accessible to the common man.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Besides palm-leaf manuscripts, scrolls, bamboo splints, and copper plates are included in the collection.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><strong>Galleries:<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>The first gallery \u2018History of Writing\u2019<\/strong> is an introduction to the evolution of writing, particularly in Kerala, and introduces visitors to the <strong>Marayur cave paintings and engravings<\/strong> and the <strong>stamps and seals used in Harappa<\/strong>, through their replicas.<\/li>\n<li>The other galleries are <strong>\u2018Land and people\u2019, \u2018Administration\u2019, \u2018War and peace\u2019, \u2018Education and health\u2019, \u2018Economy\u2019, \u2018Art and culture\u2019<\/strong>, amid the <strong>Mathilakom records (a collection of 3,000 cadjan manuscript rolls possessed by Sri Padmanabhaswamy Temple).<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1) What is Palaeography?<\/h3>\n<p>Palaeography is the study of pre-modern manuscripts: hand-written books, rolls, scrolls and single-sheet documents.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/national\/kerala\/palm-leaf-manuscript-museum-opens-window-to-little-known-history\/article66289594.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Palm-leaf manuscript museum opens window to little-known history<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With eight theme-based galleries Palm-Leaf Manuscript Museum provides a fascinating glimpse of history<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":5877,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-5876","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5876","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5876"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5876\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}