For the last 20 years, the Indology Classic Input Society in Varanasi has been committed to digitizing Sanskrit manuscripts in Roman script in order to conserve the great amount of information that has been preserved in Sanskrit literature and guarantee its accessibility for future generations and the worldwide community.

About four lakh pages have been digitized and maintained by the organization so far. Director Dr. Santosh Kumar Dwivedi told the media about this accomplishment at the Society’s headquarters on Tuesday, marking the end of 20 years. He emphasized that the program is completely free and is motivated by the goal of promoting the Sanskrit language and India’s intellectual legacy globally.

A crew from the organization tours the nation collecting manuscripts, taking pictures of them, and converting them into Roman characters for preservation using the International Alphabet for Sanskrit Transliteration (IAST).

Among the notable achievements are:

In Buldhana, Maharashtra, 117,000 pages from 2,000 manuscripts have been digitized, and transliteration is still being done.

– 217,000 pages that were freely digitized from the Kaivalyadhama Yoga Institute in Pune.

–33,000 pages are kept in the Society’s Varanasi office, while 26,000 pages are kept at the Hindustani Academy in Prayagraj.

– The restoration of Mahayana Buddhist scriptures, which were first translated into Tibetan during the Mughal period and are now being translated back into Sanskrit by the Mysore and Karnataka divisions of the institution.

– The preservation of three hundred old manuscripts that were brought in from India and other countries.

The institute’s goal of preserving and advancing India’s rich Sanskrit literary legacy is carried out via these initiatives.