India, Jan. 20 -- The Government of India has issued a release:
In a landmark cultural handover, Prof. Shrinivasa Varakhedi, Vice Chancellor of the Central Sanskrit University, presented a rare 233-year-old Sanskrit manuscript of the Vālmīkirāmāyaṇam (with the Tattvadīpikāṭīkā) to Shri Nripendra Misra, Chairman of the Executive Council of Prime Ministers Museum and Library at Teen Murti.
The manuscript, authored by Ādi Kavi Vālmīki with a classical commentary (ṭīkā) by Maheshvara Tīrtha, is written in Sanskrit (Devanāgarī script). It is a historically significant work dating to Vikrama Saṁvat 1849 (1792 CE) and represents a rare preserv...