04-16-2006, 03:35 AM
a disurbing exerpt from one of koenraad elst's pages -
This fatality can still be seen today, when the libraries of many impoverished maharajas' castles are full of manuscripts which are decaying under our very eyes, turning large chunks of India's national memory and heritage into dust. Even of the oldest and most popular texts, the extant manuscripts are seldom older than a few centuries, copies made as the only guarantee to save the texts from the ravages of time which were destroying the earlier copies.
IS IT NOT POSSIBLE IN SOME WAY TO SAVE THOE MANUSCRIPTS AND TREATISES???
This fatality can still be seen today, when the libraries of many impoverished maharajas' castles are full of manuscripts which are decaying under our very eyes, turning large chunks of India's national memory and heritage into dust. Even of the oldest and most popular texts, the extant manuscripts are seldom older than a few centuries, copies made as the only guarantee to save the texts from the ravages of time which were destroying the earlier copies.
IS IT NOT POSSIBLE IN SOME WAY TO SAVE THOE MANUSCRIPTS AND TREATISES???