WORKSHOP ON MANUSCRIPTOLOGY AND PALAEOGRAPHY 2009

All India WORKSHOP ON MANUSCRIPTOLOGY AND PALAEOGRAPHY 2009 is being organized by BLII:

Bhogilal Leherchand Institute of Indology in collaboration with National Mission for Manuscript, Indira Gandhi National Centre for Arts, New Delhi organizing a National Workshop on Manuscriptology and Palaeography from 20th December 2009 to 10th January 2010.

An Inaugural Function is organized on 20th December 2009 under the aegis of Prof. Vachaspati Upadahyaya, Vice-Chancellor, Lal Bahadur Shastri Kendriya Sanskrit Vidyapeeth, New Delhi . On this occasion Prof. Radha Vallabh Tripathi, Vice-Chancellor, Rashtriya Sanskrit Sansthan, New Delhi , will deliver key note address from the Chair of Chief Guest. Mrs. Aditi Mehta, Joint Secretary, IGNCA will also be present. More than 35 participants are coming from all over India to participate in it.

The salient features of this workshop is participants will be benefited from the deliberations and lectures of the Faculties viz. Prof. G. C. Tripathi, Prof. Satkari Mukhopadhyaya, Dr. K. K. Chakrtaborty, Prof. S. P. Narang, Dr. J. B. Shah, Prof. Shri Prakash Pandey, Dr. V. S. Shukla, Dr. Balaji Ganorkar, Dr. A. K. Singh, Dr. Preetiben Pancholi, Dr. Uttam Singh etc. The Prakrit Manuscripts will be focused in this workshop. The method of conservation and preservation, transliteration, collation, preparation of critical edition and editing as well as cataloguing of the manuscripts etc will be taught here for the 21 days. The participants of this workshop are mostly highly educated young persons holding good academic background on this subject. This is the first attempt in which the Manuscripts of Prakrit Language will be taken for the theme.
The Valedictory Function is organized on 10th January 2010 when Noted Indologist Prof. Gayacharan Tripathi, Ex-Head, Kala Kosha, IGNCA will deliver his valedictory address to the participants.

Dr Balaji Ganorkar
Director B. L. Institute of Indology
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