The Shaiva Manuscripts of Pondicherry

Booklet. — Institut Français de Pondichéry. — (A UNESCO "Memory of the World" Collection).The manuscript collection of the French Institute of Pondicherry was started in 1956 under the auspices of its founder-director, the polymath Jean Filliozat, by collecting all material relating to Saiva Agamas. The collection contains approximately 8500 palm-leaf codices, most of which are in Sanskrit language and written in Grantha script, while others are in Tamil, Malayalam, Telugu, Nandinagari and Tulu scripts. The collection is today included in the UNESCO "Memory of the World" Register.