FUTURE PLANS
Academic Plans
- Critical edition of Jvaratimirabhaskara and Suvarnatantra funded by the Department of Ayush, Govt. of India. Both are unpublished Ayurvedic manuscripts. The Jvaratimirabhaskara elaborates treatment methods for all types of fever. This text is an example of the earliest monographs dealing with individual types of diseases. Suvarnatantra is a text on alchemy supposed to be propounded by Shiva and Parasurama. The text contains three Sopanas (Khandas) with 36 chapters in 900 verses. It describes the conversion of iron, copper and mercury in to gold including different medicines prepared by mercury for treating different diseases.
- About 3-5 standard publications every year in the form of original as well as translated versions of Manuscripts and rare texts under the Chinmaya Research Series, Chinmaya Granthapushpa Series and Chinmaya Ramarayakavi Series.
- Ensure the continued publication of the Research Journal ‘Dhimahi’.
- Establishment of a digital manuscript-library. The idea is to digitize the existing manuscripts and provide online services to scholars in different phases. The Institute will collect manuscripts from various parts of India particularly from Kerala by way of donations and also on payment if found necessary. Also digitized/microfilmed copies of manuscripts will be collected from different Institutions/Universities.
- Reprint of Sanskrit Literature of Kerala: A Bibliography written by Subramania Iyer with latest updates.
- A Manuscript Conservation Lab.
- A Digital Library.
- Enriching the library by adding-up left-out volumes of multi-volume books received in the form of donation and purchasing basic texts – Moolagrantha – of every Sastras.
- Preparing a database of research articles published in referred journals for the benefit of researchers.
- A separate section in the library for back-issues of all available referred Sanskrit journals.
