Ever since digitisation techniques came into vogue, ancient texts around
the world are getting a new and longer lease of life. NETamil, a
five-year project by the Ecole française d'Extrême-Orient (EFEO),
Pudhucherry, (translated as French School for Asian Studies),
facilitated through a European Union grant, will convert some of the
oldest available palm leaf inscriptions of Tamil classics into digital
format, to make them more accessible to Tamil language enthusiasts worldwide.
Age-old manuscripts soon to be an online read
Thousands of rare and original palm-leaf and paper manuscripts at the
Government Oriental Manuscripts Library here will soon be available to
the public at the click of a mouse.
The 72,300 manuscripts, providing a deep insight into subjects as varied
as the Vedas, the Agama Sastra, architecture and mathematics, are being
digitised as part of a Tamil Nadu government initiative to preserve the
intellectual heritage of the State.
The digitised manuscripts will be hosted on the website of the Archaeology Department, which too is being modernised
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