Major Manuscript Repositories in India
Major Manuscript Repositories in India
The National Mission for Manuscripts has identified some repositoies across India which has a huge collection of manuscripts. These repositories were established many years ago and they have worked dillligently towards collection and preservation of the manuscripts. The mansucript collection at these institutes are vast corpus of literature, spread across different languages and scripts and is available on different kinds of materials like birch bark, palm leaf, cloth, wood, stone. Several rare and ancient manuscript are also part of the collection.
The repositories are listed below:
| Sl. No. | Name & Address | |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | Acharya shri Kailashsuri Jnanamandir, Koba, Gujarat | 250000 MSS |
| 2. | Saraswati Bhavan Library, Sampurnanand Univ. Varanasi, UP | 90000 MSS |
| 3. | Lal Bhai Dalpat Bhai Institute of Indology, Ahmadabad | 80000 MSS |
| 4. | Saraswati Mahal Library, Thanjavur, Tamil Nadu | 49000 MSS |
| 5. | Rajasthan Oriental Research Institute, Jodhpur | 48000 MSS |
| 6. | Rashtriya Sanskrit Sansthan, Allahabad, UP | 45000 MSS |
| 7. | University of Calcutta, Kolkata | 28000 MSS |
| 8. | Vadodra Oriental Research Institute, Vadodra | 29000 MSS |
| 9. | Khuda Bakhsh Oriental Public Library, Patna | 28000 MSS |
| 10. | Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute, Pune | 29000 MSS |
| 11. | Orrisa State Musuem, Bhubaneshwar | 22000 MSS |
| 12. | Bangiya Sahitya Parishad, Kolkata | 22000 MSS |
| 13. | Bhartiya Itihas Samsodhan Mandal, Pun | 27000 MSS |
| 14. | Oriental Research Library, J&K | 12000 MSS |
| 15. | Rampur Raza Library, Rampur, UP | 18000 MSS |