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Manuscripts & Inscriptions Digitization Foundation retweeted
India possesses one of the world's richest manuscript traditions. Yet much of this civilisational knowledge remains inaccessible.
Millions of manuscripts lie scattered across temples, libraries and private collections. Even digitised records are often just images that cannot be searched or studied digitally.
Why must Indian researchers depend on foreign databases to access their own heritage?
The Manuscripts & Inscriptions Digitization Foundation (@midf_org) is working to change this through Smriti, an indigenous, AI-powered platform designed to make India's manuscripts and inscriptions searchable and accessible.
Hindu Fund supports this vital mission. You can too.
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#HinduFund #IndianManuscripts #DigitalHeritage
Manuscripts & Inscriptions Digitization Foundation retweeted
Thousands of ancient Indian manuscripts are at risk of being lost to time, neglect and deterioration. With them could disappear centuries of knowledge in philosophy, science, medicine, astronomy and history.
Preserving them requires conservation, digitisation, translation and sustained institutional support.
Hindu Fund's Manuscripts & Inscriptions Corpus Fund is working to address this challenge.
Support the preservation of Bharat's civilisational heritage.
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#HinduFund #SaveOurManuscripts
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Manuscripts & Inscriptions Digitization Foundation retweeted
How much longer will we wait to realize that archival preservation is not a cultural hobby?
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Manuscripts & Inscriptions Digitization Foundation retweeted
India may hold around 10 million manuscripts. Yet to research our own history, we often depend on fragmented archives and foreign-owned databases.
MIDF is working to change that.
Through Smriti, it is building an indigenous, Unicode, AI-ready digital infrastructure to bring India's manuscripts and inscriptions into one searchable ecosystem.
Not just scanning old pages.
Digitisation. OCR. Transcription. Metadata. Semantic search. Data that researchers and future AI systems can actually work with.
Our civilisational memory should not merely survive on shelves. It should be searchable, accessible and owned by India.
Hindu Fund is backing MIDF to build that infrastructure.
Support the project: hindu.fund/project/manuscrip…
@midf_org
#IndianManuscripts #DigitalHeritage #MIDF #HinduFund
Manuscripts & Inscriptions Digitization Foundation retweeted
In the AI era, digitization alone is no longer enough.
The larger opportunity is to turn Bharat’s vast civilizational knowledge into a living knowledge layer that can power research, education and future AI systems.
This is also about strategic advantage. AI will increasingly shape what societies know, remember and believe. If our knowledge is fragmented, poorly represented or interpreted mainly through external datasets, bias gets encoded at the foundation.
An Atmanirbhar and Sovereign AI future needs its own trusted knowledge infrastructure.
@midf_org is on a mission to help build that foundation by connecting, structuring and making Indian Knowledge Systems usable for the AI era.
Bharat has the corpus, the depth and the intellectual inheritance. The window to build this is now.
If you are working on manuscripts, Indic knowledge, AI, language technologies or open knowledge infrastructure, we would love to hear from you.
Reach out: [email protected] or [email protected]
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Manuscripts & Inscriptions Digitization Foundation retweeted
This isn't AI. This isn't a stock photo.
This is India's civilisational memory being preserved. At Karnataka University, Dharwad, the Manuscripts & Inscriptions Digitization Foundation (@midf_org ) has already digitized 4,500 bundles of palm-leaf manuscripts. Next comes 3,500+ bundles of priceless paper manuscripts.
Every scanned page protects knowledge that survived for centuries.
Support the mission: hindu.fund/contribute/
#HinduFund #MIDF #Manuscripts #IndianCivilization #Sanskrit #Heritage #DigitalIndia
Manuscripts & Inscriptions Digitization Foundation retweeted
A 655-year-old Indian water policy still survives today.
Why?
Because it was carved in stone.
Now think about the millions of manuscripts that weren't.
Ancient India recorded breakthroughs in mathematics, astronomy, medicine, governance, and philosophy. Much of that knowledge is fading away faster than we can preserve it.
@midf_org is racing against time to digitize India's civilizational archive before it disappears forever.
This isn't charity.
It's a rescue mission for India's memory.
Donate:
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#SaveIndianKnowledge #MIDF #AncientIndia #IndianHistory #DigitalHeritage
Manuscripts & Inscriptions Digitization Foundation retweeted
இந்தியர் அனைவருக்கும் ஒரு மகிழ்ச்சிகரமான தருணம்!
11-ம் நூற்றாண்டைச் சேர்ந்த சோழர்கால செப்பேடுகள், நெதர்லாந்தில் இருந்து இந்தியாவிற்குத் திரும்பவும் கொண்டுவரப்பட இருக்கின்றன. இது தொடர்பான விழாவில் பிரதமர் ராப் ஜெட்டன் அவர்களுடன் இணைந்து பங்கேற்றேன்.
சோழர் கால செப்பேடுகள், 21 பெரிய மற்றும் 3 சிறிய தகடுகளின் தொகுப்பாகும். இவற்றில் பெரும்பாலான எழுத்துக்கள்
உலகின் மிகவும் அழகான மொழிகளுள் ஒன்றான தமிழில் பொறிக்கப்பட்டுள்ளன. இவை மாமன்னர் முதலாம் ராஜேந்திர சோழன் தனது தந்தை முதலாம் ராஜராஜனால் வாய்மொழியாக அளிக்கப்பட்ட வாக்குறுதியை முறைப்படுத்தியதை குறிக்கின்றன. மேலும், இவை சோழர்களின் பெருமையையும் பறைசாற்றுகின்றன. இந்தியர்களாகிய நாம், சோழர்களின் கலாச்சாரம், கடற்படைத் திறமை ஆகியவற்றால் மிகுந்த பெருமை கொள்கிறோம்.
நெதர்லாந்து அரசுக்கும், குறிப்பாக 19-ஆம் நூற்றாண்டின் இடைப்பட்ட காலத்தில் இருந்து செப்பேடுகளைப் பாதுகாத்து வந்த லெய்டன் பல்கலைக்கழகத்திற்கும் எனது நன்றியைத் தெரிவித்துக் கொள்கிறேன்.
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