Mysore’s classical discovery By HM Aravind - TNN Like the legendary Kautilya’s Arthashastra, mythology is woven even around its discovery. A young librarian, Rudrapatnam Shamasastry, working at the Oriental Library some 100 years ago, found a manuscript. It interested him, and he would sit poring over it for hours. Some years later, the palm leaf manuscript changed the world’s perception of India. Legend has it that the manuscript was lying in a heap in the library until Shamasastry picked it up, studied it in detail and published it in 1909. Shamasastry, then in his prime, would get engrossed in the text for long. His wife, Puttamma, would get curious but would not disturb her husband, who thought about it all the while. He woke up in the wee hours one day as something struck him, and started work on it, Puttamma had told her daughter-in-law, Vinoda Srinivas. “She would tell me that he started work on it in the early mornings, all of a sudden,” Vinoda, 75, recollects. “It is said that he was discouraged when he took the manuscript home to work on. But my father-in-law took it up as a challenge,” she says, recollecting the discussions she had with Puttamma. Read more: http://bit.ly/On4lp0

Thanks to Rohini Chowdhury for the pdf download link!

The PDF is NOT that of a scanned copy of original book, but a computer retyping done recently. Do you have link for the original printed book?

Shashi Joshi: Unable to find a pdf of the original printed book anywhere on the net!

original written language ?