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Updated: July 20, 2025 07:30
A historic National Workshop on Jain Manuscriptology was held by Gujarat University on July 19, which emphasized India's pluralistic civilizational heritage and open culture policy. Under the Department for Validation of Indic Knowledge through Advanced Research and funded by the Pradhan Mantri Jan Vikas Karyakram (PMJVK), the workshop was attended by scholars, Jain monks, and government officials to share the intellectual and spiritual wealth of Jain manuscripts.
Major learning points of the workshop
Sunil Sagar Maharaj, great philosopher and scholar of Prakrit, blessed the academic world with his knowledge and blessings
Chandra Shekhar Kumar, Secretary, Ministry of Minority Affairs, delivered the keynote, emphasizing the government's commitment to the protection of traditional knowledge systems
Ram Singh and Sravan Kumar, senior ministry officials, spoke about PMJVK's contribution to educationally empowering minority communities and heritage preservation
Scholarly and cultural impact
Issues discussed were paleography, conservation techniques, and reading techniques of Jain manuscripts in Prakrit, Sanskrit, and Apabhramsha.
The workshop acknowledged the cosmological, mathematical, and moral dimensions of Jain literature, which were preserved in libraries of Maharashtra, Rajasthan, and Gujarat
The host Gujarat University highlighted its increasing position in Indic civilizational studies and scholarship in the heritage context
More vision and scope
The project is also consistent with other projects of Mumbai University to preserve Avesta and Pahlavi Parsi heritage languages
The project is a collaborative project to merge ancient wisdom with contemporary education, making it available and applicable to generations to come
Sources: The Hindu, Devdiscourse, WebIndia123, Orissa Diary, Observer Voice.
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