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While the Kala Nidhi collects primary and secondary material, sifts information and evolve databases, the Kalakosa investigates the intellectual traditions in their dimensions of multi-layers and multi-disciplines.  As a research and publication division it endeavours to place the arts within the integral framework of a cultural system, combining the textual with the oral, the visual with the aural, and theory with practice. The Indian arts, both in theory (Sastra) and practice (Prayoga), are branches of a single unified living tree of Indian culture. They are sustained by, and in turn nurture, other dimensions of life.  The world-view has crystallised  in some fundamental concepts, which reflect the understanding of the cosmos, of space and time, of the centre and periphery, of  the part and the whole, of body, senses and the mind.

An interdisciplinary approach is the first pre-requisite to interlink the sciences (Ganita, Jyotisa, Ayurveda, etc.) with philosophy and with the various branches of the arts.  The Kalakosa division is committed to exploring these fundamental concepts which reflect a holistic vision, characteristic of the Indian world-view, but whose survival is today threatened by narrow specialisation. 

IGNCA's approach is fully supported by the latest insights of scientists. With this in view the division works toward identifying primary concepts, fundamental to the Indian world-view, which have permeated all disciplines and dimensions of life, bringing to light primary textual source material hitherto unknown, unpublished or inaccessible both in the original language as also translation, and placing before future generation the works of the savants who have been pioneers in giving direction and light for comprehending the artistic traditions through a holistic vision, cross-cultural context, and multi-disciplinary methodology.

An Important and noteworthy activity of Kalakosa is to organize workshops on "Manuscriptology and Palaeography". The Objective of the workshop is to train young sanskritists all over India in this important discipline. In these workshops the methodology of preparing critical edition, decoding of date codes, teaching of ancient and medieval scripts such as Sarada, Newari, Grantha, Brahmi, Old Oriya, Gauri etc. alongwith other important aspects of critical editing are taught to the participants. Noted scholars from all over India are invited as resource persons. So far, six workshops have been successfully organized in Pune, Calcutta, Mysore, Trivandrum and Delhi in collaboration with various universities and oriental research institutes.

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EAST ASIA PROGRMME  > Central Asian Programme

Varanasi Regional Centre  > Introduction about Varanasi Regional Centre  |   Theme of Kalatattvakosha

Gaudiya Grantha Mandira :: Sanskrit Text Repository :: Catalogue of Texts Categorically Sorted 

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Narivada Newsletter - Issue No.2, January 2007

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