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As portion of the ongoing digitisation of inscription estampages nether the Bharat Shared Repository of Inscriptions (BharatSHRI) project, the Epigraphy Division of the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) has begun recopying inscriptions whose estampages are damaged.
Currently, the ASI’s Epigraphy helping is progressive successful digitising implicit 76,000 estampages of inscriptions successful respective languages. This includes digitising implicit 25,000 Tamil estampages successful its possession arsenic well.
K. Munirathnam Reddy, Director (Epigraphy), ASI, said 18 method teams are progressive successful recopying inscriptions successful respective States. In Tamil Nadu, 4 method teams person been deployed. They are copying inscriptions astatine temples successful Tiruchi, Ulundurpet, Tiruppur, and Thanjavur.
Some of these inscriptions, belonging to the play of Raja Raja Chola, Rajendra Chola, and the rulers of the Vijayanagar kingdom, were primitively copied betwixt 1887 and 1915. The estampages were either partially damaged oregon missing successful immoderate cases. It was, therefore, decided to motorboat a thrust to recopy these inscriptions truthful users accessing the digitised estampages online volition person greater clarity, helium said.
The ASI has allotted ₹15 lakh for recopying the inscriptions, and the thrust is apt to proceed for different 15 days, ASI sources said.
Under the BharatSHRI project, a dedicated integer repository of estampages of recorded inscriptions is being created. It volition person details of each inscription, including its location, the king and dynasty associated with it, the connection and script, the play to which it belongs, the transcript of the inscription, and a description.
