Here is a great news for all those who love Odia Classical literary works from various fields or who wants to do pre-modern research related to Eastern India, especially of Odisha.The Odisha government, has now, through the state museum's homepage, made available the catalog of all those priceless palm leaf manuscripts in Odia and other languages like Sanskrit. You can order the paper version or soft copy version of the work from the http://www.odishamuseum.nic.in/ homepage.
The unique and rare palm leaf manuscripts of Odisha will now be accessible at the click of a mouse. As many as 40,000 manuscripts in possession of the Odisha State Museum have been digitised, e-catalogued and hosted on the Web through a dedicated webpage, e-Pothi.
Embedded in the website of Odisha State Museum - odishamuseum.nic.in - some of the categories under which those can be accessed are Illustrate Manuscripts, Sanskrit Purana, Tantra, Veda, Odia Literature, Shilpasastra, Jyotisha, Grammar, Ganita, Dharmasastra, Darshan and Ayurveda.
e-Pothi, a project of the Culture Department and implemented by National Informatics Centre (NIC), will be inaugurated by Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on Monday.
This works like an online catalogue, where a visitor can search based on author, subject or even category and get access to the manuscripts. A visitor can get access to the first and last page of an individual manuscript and if he wants to read or take copies of the manuscripts for research purpose, there is a facility for online purchase through payment. Charges will be higher for commercial use of the digitised format of manuscripts.
At the State Museum, the manuscripts have been categorised under 27 sections and showcased at the Palm Leaf Manuscripts gallery, all of which would be available online now.
Last year, a dedicated webpage on Jaydev’s Geeta Govinda manuscript was launched by the Culture Department, which was also integrated into the State Museum website. While the first 20 to 25 pages of Geeta Govinda can be downloaded free of cost, the rest would be charged.
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