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29/03/23 06:47 AM IST

Vedic Heritage portal

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  • The Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts (IGNCA) has recently launched the Vedic Heritage Portal, a digital repository of vedic knowledge and traditions from across the country.
About the portal
  • The Vedic Heritage Portal is an effort to map the Vedic heritage of India.
  • The portal offers detailed information about oral traditions, textual tradition in the form of published books/manuscripts, or implements (yajna-related objects).
  • The aim of the portal is to collate information for making Vedas accessible to people and provide a forum for further dialogue.
  • It is a digital platform that preserves and promotes the ‘Vedas’, which are an intangible heritage of humanity as per the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO).
  • Over 550 hours of audio-visual content related to more than 18,000 Vedic mantras have been uploaded on the website, prepared in conjunction with people who know Vedas, Vedic research institutes, Vedapathi families, and experts from all over the world.
  • The Vedic Heritage Portal is available in a mix of English and Hindi, besides audio content in Sanskrit.
  • The portal also includes research articles and lectures on scientific subjects explaining the relevance of ‘Vedic knowledge’ in the perspective of modern science.
IGNCA
  • The Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts (IGNCA) was established in 1987 as an autonomous institution under the Ministry of Culture, as a centre for research, academic pursuit and dissemination in the field of the arts.
  • The IGNCA has a trust (i.e. Board of Trustees), which meets regularly to give general direction about the Centre’s work. The Executive Committee, drawn from among the Trustees, functions under a Chairman.
  • It is a research unit under Project Mausam.
Source- Indian Express

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