LANGUAGE IN INDIA

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Volume 22:4 April 2022
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A View on Ozhuku: Manuscripts on Land Records

Salsanath S N., Research Scholar and Dr. S. Kunjamma

Manuscripts are accessible in almost every written language in the world. There are thousands of manuscripts of historical significance in ancient languages such as Sanskrit, Greek, Latin, Hebrew, and Persian (Maheswaran Nair, K. Manuscriptology). Manuscriptology is relevant worldwide. It is an essential part of today's cultural study. Manuscripts are an essential part of the study of the cultural history of human race. Manuscripts represent an advanced stage in the history of language. From the origin of language, the human race has progressed rapidly.

Manuscripts

There is a Sanskrit saying, “manuscript says, ‘protect me from the oil (fire), protect from the water, and protect from being loosely tied. Please do not hand me over to the careless-fools’,” (Sanskrit says p .197. Maheswaran Nair, K. Manuscriptology) Manuscripts enrich of sage-quality passed from generation to generation. A written document dated back at least seventy-five years archive the status of a rare manuscript. L M Harrod defines manuscript as “a document of any kind which is written by hand, or the text of a music or literary composition in handwritten or typescript form and which, in that form, has not been reproduced in multiple copies.” (Maheswaran Nair, K. Manuscriptology) There are different types of manuscripts available. They are:

1. Palm leaves
2. Birch bark (bhurj patra)
3. Kumbhi bark
4. Agarutvak
5. Leather
6. Cloth
7. Tulapat
8. Paper

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Salsanath S N., Research Scholar
Dr. S. Kunjamma
Department of Linguistics
Kerala University
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