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There are thousands of lost palm leaf books, in Sanskrit and other South Asian languages, rotting away.

There is simply no money to support the scholarship that would preserve these works. It's incredibly sad.



Do you know any libraries that need financial support for archiving this body of work?


I know of research institutes, yes.

Sanskrit is widely taught in younger years. Funding needs to go to bright PhD students to make the field again. It's extremely conservative and territorial after so many years of hardship.


I hope they get digitized before they all fall apart. Maybe they should contact google.


They have to be found first. They are mostly scattered in temple basements and private collections.




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