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The Manuscripts of the Rig Veda: From Birch Bark to UNESCO Archive
The Rig Veda was transmitted orally for over two millennia before anyone bothered to write it down. The earliest surviving manuscripts are from the 11th century CE; 30 of them — at the Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute in Pune — were inscribed on UNESCO's Memory of the World register in 2007. A look at the physical history of the text.