Credits
The hands behind the work.
A centre of this scale is the sum of many quiet labours — scholars, conservators, scribes, programmers, and institutional partners across the world.
Patron Institution
University of Calcutta
Founded 1857 · Host institution and custodian of the manuscript collection.
Academic Leadership
Prof. (Dr.) A. Bandyopadhyay
Director, Centre for Manuscriptology
Prof. (Dr.) R. Bhattacharya
Head, Department of Sanskrit
Dr. M. Chakraborty
Lead, Digital Humanities Initiative
Dr. S. Mukherjee
Coordinator, Conservation Laboratory
Conservation Team
Heritage Science Lab
Chemical stabilisation, climate control, micro-environment showcases.
Field Survey Unit
Mapping monasteries, temples, and private collections across Eastern India.
Digital & AI Partners
Pandulipi Saṃśodhaka Lab
Custom OCR, transliteration pipelines, and semantic search.
IGNCA, New Delhi
National Mission for Manuscripts — federated cataloguing.
Indic NLP Consortium
Open language models for low-resource scripts.
International Affiliates
UNESCO Memory of the World
Documentary heritage standards and recognition.
Bodleian Libraries, Oxford
Comparative codicology fellowships.
École française d'Extrême-Orient
Joint critical-edition publications.
With gratitude to the lineage of unnamed scribes whose patient hands across centuries made this inheritance possible. Tasmai śrī-gurave namaḥ.