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The Mission not only encourages documentationof manuscript collections all over the country butalso plans to publish them. We have a programmeof publishing descriptive catalogues of all thecollections of the Manuscript Resource Centresworking with the Mission.The Mission has published a catalogue of theexhibition of Indian manuscripts at the FrankfurtBook Fair, Germany. The catalogue covers severalaspects of Indian manuscripts. It is divided into 6sections; ‘From Clay to Copper’ giving us an idea ofthe variety of materials on which texts are found;‘The Making of a Manuscript’ with information onstyluses and inkpots; ‘Fields of Learning’ whichprovides an overview of the different areas whichmanuscripts deal in; ‘Veneration, Submission,Worship’ shows us the importance of the wordwhich is considered sacred; the fifth section,‘Word and Image’ provides us a glimpse ofillustrated manuscripts in the country; lastly, ‘RoyalCommands and Plain Records’ is an indicator ofthe fact that manuscripts were an integral partof lives of everyone from the King to thecommon man.The word is Sacred Sacred is the WordThe Word is Sacred, Sacred is the Word- the Indian ManuscriptTradition by B. N. Goswamy with contributions from DhritabrataBhattacharya, Yashaswini Chandra, Kakul Fatima, Jagdish Mittal,D. K. Rana, Rita Devi Sharma, Sanjukta Sunderason and GitanjaliSurendranPublishers: National Mission for ManuscriptsNew Delhi and Niyogi Offset Pvt. Ltd., New DelhiPages: 248Price: ` 1850/-Vijñānanidhi: Manuscript Treasures of India:A catalogue of select manuscripts declared‘Vijñānanidhi: Manuscript Treasures of India’ has alsobeen prepared by the Mission. This was released bySmt. Ambika Soni, Minister for Tourism and Culturein February 2007 in a function which also saw thelaunch of database of 1 million manuscripts onthe web.Vijñānanidhi: Manuscript Treasures of IndiaPublished by: National Mission for ManuscriptsNew DelhiPages: 144National Mission for Manuscripts | Annual Report 2010–201145