Building India's unified, Unicode-compliant knowledge infrastructure for manuscripts and inscriptions
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Something most people don't know:
India holds the largest written record of any civilisation.
1 crore manuscripts. 3 lakh inscriptions in stone.
We gave the world zero. Wrote down surgery and calculus centuries before the West did.
Today, less than 1% can be read or searched. The rest is quietly turning to dust.
In the age of AI, knowledge a machine can't read is knowledge the world will never use.
MIDF is working to change that.
Help us keep India's memory alive. Donate below
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To friends and supporters living outside India: if you wish to donate, please do so through an Indian bank account (where available). Due to FCRA restrictions, we cannot currently accept contributions from foreign accounts.
Thank you for your understanding and continued support.
Please click on the link below to donate:
rzp.io/rzp/build-midf
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To friends and supporters living outside India: if you wish to donate, please do so through an Indian bank account (where available). Due to FCRA restrictions, we cannot currently accept contributions from foreign accounts.
Thank you for your understanding and continued support.
Something most people don't know:
India holds the largest written record of any civilisation.
1 crore manuscripts. 3 lakh inscriptions in stone.
We gave the world zero. Wrote down surgery and calculus centuries before the West did.
Today, less than 1% can be read or searched. The rest is quietly turning to dust.
In the age of AI, knowledge a machine can't read is knowledge the world will never use.
MIDF is working to change that.
Help us keep India's memory alive. Donate below
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Rs. 1 lakh raised. Less than two hours.
Thank you to everyone who supported us. The momentum is building. Let’s keep it going.
Something most people don't know:
India holds the largest written record of any civilisation.
1 crore manuscripts. 3 lakh inscriptions in stone.
We gave the world zero. Wrote down surgery and calculus centuries before the West did.
Today, less than 1% can be read or searched. The rest is quietly turning to dust.
In the age of AI, knowledge a machine can't read is knowledge the world will never use.
MIDF is working to change that.
Help us keep India's memory alive. Donate below
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Something most people don't know:
India holds the largest written record of any civilisation.
1 crore manuscripts. 3 lakh inscriptions in stone.
We gave the world zero. Wrote down surgery and calculus centuries before the West did.
Today, less than 1% can be read or searched. The rest is quietly turning to dust.
In the age of AI, knowledge a machine can't read is knowledge the world will never use.
MIDF is working to change that.
Help us keep India's memory alive. Donate below
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Please click on the link below to donate:
rzp.io/rzp/build-midf
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1.2 crore manuscripts & more than 3 lakh inscriptions inside Bharat
> 1% searchable
We are building India's knowledge infrastructure and have a long way to go
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2,000 manuscripts. Live. Free. Searchable now live on the #MIDF platform.
More in progress.
This is what India's knowledge infrastructure looks like,
- midf.org.in
#MIDF #IndianHeritage #Manuscripts #PMO @GyanBharatamMoC @gssjodhpur
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A stone pillar in Andhra Pradesh, carved in AD 1261, recorded something extraordinary.
The Malkapuram Inscription — issued under the Kakatiya dynasty — wasn't just a land grant.
It was a governance model. A welfare system. Built into stone.
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In a single endowed village, the Kakatiyas established:
Free hospital & maternity care
Public college — open to all
Feeding house serving every caste
Daughters could inherit land. By law.
Not an exception. Standard policy. In 13th-century India.
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The Malkapuram inscription reminds us that the principles underpinning welfare, equity, and organised rural economies are not new to this land.
@GyanBharatamMoC
#MIDF #AncientIndia #KakatiyanDynasty #InclusiveDevelopment #WomenAndLand #IndianHeritage
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India had a water policy in 1369. It was carved in stone.
A look at the Porumamilla Inscription—a 655-year-old masterclass in hydrology and governance from the First Vijayanagara Dynasty
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This is pure demand-supply hydrology, written in Telugu.
The resulting tank, Anantaraja-sagara, still stands and was designated a Water Heritage Site in 2023.
It survived because stone is durable. @GyanBharatamMoC
#AncientIndia #MIDF #WaterHeritage
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But most of what we know about ancient Indian science, medicine, and math did not survive because the medium failed.
That is the problem #MIDF exists to fix. We are building the digital infrastructure to preserve r civilizational intelligence forever
#CivilizationalIntelligence
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Today, the work of conservation requires sovereign digital infrastructure.
In Dharwad, a five-member unit named Pratnakīrti—led by Keyur Karagudari, the last disciple of the late epigraphist Dr. Shrinivas Ritti—is digitizing Epigraphia Indica into an AI-ready repository.
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The team is building a comprehensive database. They are ensuring each record survives with full metadata, text, and translation.
From stone to paper, to digital architecture.
#Epigraphy #AncientIndia #PMO #IndianMusic #MIDF #ASI
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