Bhagavad Gita and Natyastra de la India, including the 'World Smriti' of UNESCO - eSHOP24X7

Protect documents such as registration, books, manuscripts, maps, photos, sound or video recording, and guarantees that the valuable library files and collections are preserved and accessible.

This year, for the ‘Memory of the World’ of UNESCO, tickets were received from 72 countries and 4 international organizations.

After the evaluation of the entries of an Independent International Advisory Committee, the collections are added to the registration after the final decision of the UNESCO Executive Board.

Ancient heritage of India

This year, the manuscripts of Bhagavad Gita de India and Natyasra de Bharat have been recognized for their cultural importance.

The Bhagavad Gita is a sacred Sanskrit book of 18 chapters, which has 700 verses. It is a very important book of the ancient Indian tradition, which provides spiritual and moral orientation, through the dialogue between Arjuna and Krishna during the Mahabharata War.

At the same time, Natyastra de Bharat with 36 thousand verses is an ancient Sanskrit text about performance art. Define basic texts, drama, interpretation, beauty experience, emotion and music.

The concept of “rasa” (beauty experience) given in Natyasra has been the basis of Indian art and culture.

Along with this, the number of India collections included in the World Registry of Smriti has increased to 14, including an important inheritance such as Rigveda, Shaiv manuscripts and collections of Tamile medical manuscripts.

In addition to this, it has also been included in Sri Lanka in southern Asia, Pānadurā Vāday (the great bread debate) and the registration of three years (Tribhaselipia) presented by China and Sri Lanka.

The bread instrument (pānadurā vāday) is a book composed in the context of religious differences between Buddhists and Christians in the mid -nineteenth century, including the correspondence that defends the open dialogue on theoretical issues between Christians and Buddhist leaders, together with the correspondence of complete dialogue.

At the same time, there is an inscription of three lingues, a stone plaque, which has been praised by Buddha, Lord Vishnu and Allah in Chinese, Persian and Tamil.

World Heritage Platform to Save

UNESCO GENERAL DIRECTOR Audrey Bale said on the occasion: “Written heritage is an essential but delicate element of the memory of humanity. That is why UNESCO invests under its protection, shares the best practices mutually and preserves the most important copies in human history when entering it in this record.”

“There are some examples of the Chingguitti Library in Mauritania or Amadau Hamete Ba in Ivory Coast, some examples of this.”

Fourteen scientific documents are related to the assets of the newly registered collections.

Itaf al-Mhabub (presented by Egypt) has been documented the contribution of the Arab world in astronomy, movement, astronomical bodies and astrological analysis during the first millennium of our time.

In addition, Charles Darwin (Great Britain), Fraderick Nietzsche (Germany), Wilhelm Conrad Rontzen (Germany) have also included the first photo and X -ray files by Carlos Chagas (Brazil), a leader X -rays, recorded for the first time.

In addition, some collections associated with the memory of slavery have also been included, presented by Angola, Aruba, Cape Verde, Kuracao and Mozambic.

At the same time, files related to some historical women are also included. Among them, the main education of the girls, Raden Ajeg Kartini (Indonesia and the Netherlands), the writer Catherine Mansfield (New Zealand) and the travel writer Annari Schwarzenbak and her Malart (Switzerland).

There are many collections in which important moments of international cooperation have registered.

These include the Geneva Convention (1864–1949) and its Protocol (1977–2005) (Switzerland), Universal Declaration of Human Rights (United Nations) and 1991 Windhoic statements (Namibia).

World Memory Program

Established in 1992, the purpose of the world’s memory program is to preserve the written or registered legacy of humanity and promote universal access. Often because it is highly sensitive, there is a danger of deteriorating this heritage or disaster destruction.

In such UNESCO According to the World Smriti program, countries receive help to develop conservation, training and financial assistance policies to memory institutes for collecting collections, and in association with educational organizations, these essential elements of our past are integrated into the school curriculum, so that they can be transported to generations to come.