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The Shevadhi Museum and Indological Research Institute has signed a memorandum of knowing (MoU) with Alliance University, Bengaluru, to survey the extended postulation of thenar leafage manuscripts astatine the Kumaranalloor Devi temple.
The manuscripts, presently undergoing preservation astatine the depository wrong the temple complex, were recovered from the attic of the temple bureau past year. After astir a year-long effort with the assistance of an epigraphist, temple authorities successfully salvaged astir 37,200 leaves, marking 1 of the largest recoveries of temple manuscripts successful India.
According to temple officials, the postulation includes temple documents, records of rites and rituals, details of Brahmini pattu, a unsocial benignant of devotional singing astatine temples, galore rubric deeds, gross records, relationship books and correspondence. Some documents, however, stay challenging to decipher owed to the usage of past scripts.
An authoritative connection said the MoU volition supply students of Alliance University the accidental to survey the collection. In addition, determination are plans to present UGC-approved courses astatine Shevadhi.
According to depository authorities, efforts are besides nether mode to decipher and people immoderate of the astir absorbing records from the collection.
Kumaranalloor Devi Temple is believed to person been established successful the 10th period CE by 16 families nether the Chera rulers of Kodungalloor, arsenic documented successful a Vattezhuthu inscription connected the temple premises.
