There are thousands of lost palm leaf books, in Sanskrit and other South Asian languages, rotting away.
There is simply no money to support the scholarship that would preserve these works. It's incredibly sad.
There is simply no money to support the scholarship that would preserve these works. It's incredibly sad.
Sanskrit is widely taught in younger years. Funding needs to go to bright PhD students to make the field again. It's extremely conservative and territorial after so many years of hardship.