Why in news? Murty Trust, has announced a grant of 7.5 crore to the over-a-century-old Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute (BORI), Pune.

Highlights

• The grant will be used to build The Murty Centre for Indic Studies at the institute.
• It will work to ‘preserve and promote research on rare books and manuscripts in Sanskrit and Prakrit’.
• The new building will provide a conservation laboratory to support the upkeep of these books.
• Murty trust is a charitable institution owned by the founders of Infosys

About Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute

• Location : Pune, Maharashtra
• It was founded and named after Ramakrishna Gopal Bhandarkar, long regarded as the founder of Indology (Orientalism) in India.
• The institute is well known for its collection of old Sanskrit and Prakrit manuscripts.
• Largest collections of rare books and manuscripts in South Asia
• The Rigveda manuscripts preserved at the Institute were included in UNESCO’s Memory of the World Register.
• Among the several scholars , the most well-known person arguably is the Bharat Ratna awardee, Pt. Pandurang Vaman Kane.