20-428: Oriental Research Institute may refer to: Oriental Research Institute Mysore , India Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute , Pune, India Oriental Research Institute & Manuscripts Library , Kerala, India Rajasthan Oriental Research Institute , India Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with
40-798: A man stood up and asked, "Are you from our Dr. R. Shamashastry's Mysore?" Because the Arthashastra edited by him took a fame worldwide. The King wondered and came back to Mysore immediately to see Dr. R. Shamashastry, and also Dr. R. Shamashastry appointed as Asthana Vidwan. Sritattvanidhi , is a compilation of slokas by Krishnaraja Wodeyar III . Three edited manuscripts Navaratnamani-mahatmyam (a work on gemology ), Tantrasara-sangraha (a work on sculptures and architecture), and Vaidashastra-dipika (an ayurvedic text), Rasa-kaumudi (on mercurial medicine)all of them with English and Kannada translation, are already in advanced stages of printing. The ORI houses over 45,000 Palm leaf manuscript bundles and
60-536: Is attributed to the then Maharaja of Mysore , Krishnaraja Wodeyar III (b. 1794 - d. 1868). The Maharaja was a great patron of art and learning, and was himself a scholar and writer. Around 50 works are ascribed to him. The first page of the Sritattvanidhi attributes authorship of the work to the Maharaja himself: May the work Sri Tattvanidi, which is illustrated and contains secrets of mantras and which
80-559: Is authored by King Sri Krishna Raja Kamteerava, be written without any obstacle. Beginning of Shaktinidhi. Martin-Dubost's review of the history of this work says that the Maharaja funded an effort to put together in one work all available information concerning the iconography and iconometry of divine figures in South India. He asked that a vast treatise be written, which he then had illustrated by miniaturists from his palace. The resulting illuminated manuscript , which he entitled
100-502: Is featured in the 2014 mystery thriller novel The Emperor's Riddles by Satyarth Nayak. Sritattvanidhi The Sritattvanidhi ( Śrītattvanidhi , "The Illustrious Treasure of Realities") is a treatise written in the 19th century in Karnataka on the iconography and iconometry of divine figures in South India. One of its sections includes instructions for, and illustrations of, 122 hatha yoga postures. The Sritattvanidhi
120-596: Is in the possession of the royal family of Mysore. An unedited version with text in Devanagari script was published around 1900 by Khemraj Krishna Das of Sri Venkateshvar Steam Press, Bombay . In recent times the Oriental Research Institute has published three volumes (Saktinidhi, Vishnunidhi, and Sivanidhi. Another important work on the subject is by the scholar of Sanskrit and hatha yoga, Norman Sjoman . His 1996 book The Yoga Tradition of
140-537: Is located at the northern end of Krishnaraja Boulevard (adjacently opposite to Mysore University 's Crawford Hall), in the architecturally attractive Jubilee Hall built in 1887 to commemorate the golden jubilee of Queen Victoria's accession to the British throne. It was a part of the Department of Education until 1916, in which year it became part of the newly established University of Mysore . The Oriental Library
160-497: The Sritattvanidhi , brings together several forms of Shiva , Vishnu , Skanda , Ganesha , different goddesses, the nine planets ( navagraha ), and the eight protectors of the cardinal points ( aṣṭadikpālas ). The work is in nine parts, each called a nidhi ("treasure"). The nine sections are: An original copy of this colossal work is available in the Oriental Research Institute at the University of Mysore . Another copy
180-430: The 75,000 works on those leaves. The manuscripts are palm leaves cut to a standard size of 150 by 35 mm (5.9 by 1.4 in). Brittle palm leaves are sometimes softened by scrubbing a paste made of ragi and then used by the ancients for writing, similar to the use of papyrus in ancient Egypt. Manuscripts are organic materials that run the risk of decay and are prone to be destroyed by silverfish . To preserve them
200-465: The Mysore Palace presents the first English translation of the kautuka nidhi in the Sritattvanidhi , which provides instructions for and illustrations of 122 postures performed by a yogini in a topknot and loincloth . Some of these poses—which include handstands, backbends, foot-behind-the-head poses, lotus variations, and rope exercises—are familiar to modern practitioners, though most of
220-535: The Mysore Palace, including training the yoga masters B. K. S. Iyengar and K. Pattabhi Jois there, was influenced by the Sritattvanidhi . The yoga scholars James Mallinson and Mark Singleton note that the Sritattvanidhi , like another late 18th or early 19th century text, the Hathabhyasapaddhati , indicate for the first time that yoga asanas may include "a wide variety of physical exercises, from squat thrusts to rope-climbing". In these texts,
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#1732772652227240-464: The ORI applies lemon grass oil on the manuscripts which acts like a pesticide . The lemon grass oil also injects natural fluidity into the brittle palm leaves and the hydrophobic nature of the oil keeps the manuscripts dry so that the text is not lost to decay due to humidity. The conventional method followed at the ORI was to preserve manuscripts by capturing them in microfilm , which then necessitated
260-574: The Oriental Library, the Oriental Research Institute (ORI) at Mysore , India , is a research institute which collects, exhibits, edits, and publishes rare manuscripts written in various scripts like , Brahmic ( Sanskrit, Kannada ), ( Nandinagari ), Devanagari ( Sanskrit ), Grantha , Malayalam , Tigalari, etc. The Oriental Library was started in 1891 under the patronage of Maharaja Chamarajendra Wadiyar X . It
280-534: The Sanskrit names differ from the ones they are known by today, but they are more elaborate than anything depicted in other pre-twentieth-century texts. Sjoman describes the origins of some asanas from a gymnastics exercise manual of the late 19th century, the Vyayama Dipika . Sjoman asserts that the influential yoga teacher Krishnamacharya , who did much to create modern yoga as exercise while teaching in
300-477: The librarian of Mysore Government Oriental Library now ORI. Shamashastry's job was to look after the library's ancient manuscripts. He had never seen anything like these palm leaves before. Here was a book that would revolutionise the knowledge of India's great past. This palm leaf manuscript is preserved in the library, now named Oriental Research Institute. The pages of the book are filled with 1500-year-old Grantha script. It looks like as if they have been printed but
320-524: The title Oriental Research Institute . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Oriental_Research_Institute&oldid=874371737 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Oriental Research Institute Mysore Formerly known as
340-452: The use of a microfilm reader for viewing or studying. Once the ORI has digitized the manuscripts, the text can be viewed and manipulated by a computer. Software is then used to put together disjointed pieces of manuscripts and to correct or fill in any missing text. In this manner, the manuscripts are restored and enhanced. The original palm leaf manuscripts are also on reference at the ORI for those interested. The Oriental Research Institute
360-624: The words have been inscribed by hand. Other copies of Arthashastra were later discovered later in other parts of India. In this context, my mind remembering a day which was the His Excellency Krishnaraja Wodeyar went to Germany at the time of Dr. R. Shamashastry were working as a curator of Oriental Library, Mysore, The King sat in a meeting held in Germany and introduced himself as the King of Mysore State. Immediately
380-424: Was on Indology . The institute publishes an annual journal called Mysore Orientalist . Its most famous publications include Kautilya 's Arthashastra , written in the 4th century BC, edited by Dr. R. Shamashastri, which brought international fame to the institute when published in 1909. One day a man from Tanjore handed over a manuscript of Arthashastra written on dried palm leaves to Dr Rudrapatnam Shamashastry,
400-627: Was renamed as the Oriental Research Institute in 1943. From the year 1893 to date the ORI has published nearly two hundred titles. The library features rare collections such as the Encyclopaedia of Religion and Ethics by James Hastings , A Vedic Concordance by Maurice Bloomfield , and critical editions of the Ramayana and Mahabharata . It was the first public library in Mysore city for research and editing of manuscripts. The prime focus
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