India’s learned inheritance spans medicine, mathematics, architecture, philosophy, aesthetics and literature. Its continuous transmission from ancient times was through hand-written texts in Sanskrit, Tamil, Odia, Bengali and other languages, written in scripts such as Nagari, Grantha, Sharda and Newari. SAMHiTA brings together repositories on a common platform and shares collected information through PANDiT.
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Digital Archive & Database
Creating a relational database and open digital archive of Indic manuscripts held in repositories outside India.
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Global Collaboration
Partnering with the British Library, Bodleian Oxford, BnF Paris, University of Tokyo, University of Pennsylvania and more.
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PANDiT Integration
All collected information is shared on PANDiT — the Prosopographical Database of Indic Texts and Records.
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Cultural Heritage Recovery
Recovering, preserving and making accessible centuries of Indian knowledge in medicine, mathematics, philosophy and the arts.
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Open Access for Scholars
Consolidating dispersed manuscript information on an online platform accessible to researchers, students and curious minds.
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Lecture Series & Education
The Kriti-SAMHiTA lecture series and master classes show how manuscripts unfold centuries-old knowledge traditions.