Work is underway to document the palm leaf manuscripts of the Srirangam Renganathar temple.
The Trichy Srirangam Renganathar Temple is revered as the foremost of the 108 Vaishnava temples. The history of the ancient temple, its festivals and rituals are written in Telugu on palm leaves. All the manuscripts on more than 100 topics are preserved in the museum on the temple premises.
The Tamil Nadu Hindu Religious and Charitable Endowments department has begun work on digitizing and documenting the priceless manuscripts.
The Assistant Commissioner of the Temple Maarimuthu was quoted saying in a report by Tamil media that the process of digitizing and documenting the manuscripts is being undertaken as the palm leaf manuscripts needs to be preserved which undergoes damages due to time.
(With inputs from Dinamalar)
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