The fumigation chamber to conserve palm-leaf manuscripts at the Oriental Research Institute (ORI) was inaugurated by the Minister for Higher Education, IT and BT C..N. Ashwath Narayan here on Thursday.
This is part of the ongoing efforts to conserve the collection of about 30,000 palm leaf bundles and Sanskrit manuscripts at the ORI including the rare and complete treatise of Kautilya’s Arthashastra.