Bengal: Visva-Bharati's Mahabharata manuscripts enter UNESCO Memory of the World regional register

Santiniketan, Nov 10 (UNI) A rare collection of Mahabharata manuscripts preserved at Bengal's prestigious Visva-Bharati University's (VBU) Lipika Manuscriptorium has been inscribed in UNESCO's Memory of the World Committee for Asia and the Pacific (MOWCAP) Regional Register in November 2026. The university announced the recognition on its official social media page, stating that the Rajatarangini of Kalhana, the Mahabharata and the Arthashastra of Kautilya had been included in the regional register. In an official statement, VBU said its Lipika Library preserved a complete manuscript of the Karna Parva of the Mahabharata, written on palm leaves around 300 years ago and…