The Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute, abbreviated BORI, is located in Pune at the junction of Law College Road and Bhandarkar Road. It was founded in 1917 to commemorate the activities of Ramakrishna Gopal Bhandarkar (1837-1925), regarded as the founder of Orientology(= Indology?) in India. The institute is well known for its collection of old Sanskrit and Prakrit manuscripts. It is also known for preparing a reference copy of the Mahabharat based on the most ancient and varied copies available. Pune (पुणे in Marathi), formerly known as Punavadi and Poona (पूना by British), is located in the western Indian state of Maharashtra. ... This article lacks information on the importance of the subject matter. ... 1917 (MCMXVII) was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar (see link for calendar) or a common year starting on Tuesday of the 13-day slower Julian calendar. ... | Queen Victoria, Queen of the United Kingdom (1837 - 1901) 1837 was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ... 1925 (MCMXXV) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will take you to calendar). ... Indology is a name given by indologists to the academic study of the history, languages, and cultures of South Asia. ... Sanskrit ( संस्कृतम्) is an Indo-European classical language of India and a liturgical language of Hinduism, Buddhism, and Jainism. ... Prakrit (Sanskrit prāká¹›ta प्राकृत (from pra-ká¹›ti प्रकृति), original, natural, artless, normal, ordinary, usual, i. ... A manuscript (Latin manu scriptus written by hand), strictly speaking, is any written document that is put down by hand, in contrast to being printed or reproduced some other way. ... The Mahabharata (Devanagari: महाभारत, phonetically Mahābhārata - see note), sometimes just called Bharata, is the great religious, philosophical and mythological epic of India. ...

The institute came into news when it was ransacked in January 2004 by an irate mob, made up of members of a notorious Castist youth movement squad, the Sambhaji Brigade, named after Shivaji's elder son, aparantly angered by the apparent help provided by the institute's staff (in translating manuscripts) to a Western writer Dr. James Laine who had apparently included objectionable and off-color anecdotes from popular Marathi culture and folk traditions about Shivaji's parentage and life in his book. 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The term MOB (all caps) may have several meanings, depending on context: Rice Universitys Marching Owl Band (The MOB) Man over board of a ship or boat Money Over Bitches, the group MOB, made up of Techniec and Eastwood who are both signed as solo artists to The Black... Sambhaji Brigade is a outlawed notorious mob youth organization situated in Maharashtra, a western state of India. ... Shivaji Bhonslé, also known as Chhatrapati Shivaji Raje Bhonslé (Marathi: छत्रपती शिवाजीराजे भोसले) was the founder of the Maratha empire in western India in 1674 which was instrumental in the downfall of the Mughal Empire. ... An anecdote is a short tale told about an interesting, amusing, or biographical incident. ... Marathi is one of the widely spoken languages of India, and has a long literary history. ... The word culture, from the Latin colo, -ere, with its root meaning to cultivate, generally refers to patterns of human activity and the symbolic structures that give such activity significance. ... Folklore is the body of verbal expressive culture, including tales, legends, oral history, proverbs, jokes, popular beliefs current among a particular population, comprising the oral tradition of that culture, subculture, or group. ... Shivaji Bhonslé, also known as Chhatrapati Shivaji Raje Bhonslé (Marathi: छत्रपती शिवाजीराजे भोसले) was the founder of the Maratha empire in western India in 1674 which was instrumental in the downfall of the Mughal Empire. ...

See also

Indology Indology is a name given by indologists to the academic study of the history, languages, and cultures of South Asia. ...

External link

The Official Website of BORI