Udupi: It is a conservation effort that is deeply rooted in culture and history. Thanks to Prof. SA Krishnaiah who is leading a single handed campaign to save the ‘Srithale’ a kind of palm tree that had provided leaves for engraving and recording history.
Even the ‘Artha Shastra’ (Statecraft) written by Vishnu Gupta (Chanakya) 3000 years back was written on the leaves of ‘Srithale’ that survives even today at the Institute of Oriental Studies in Mysuru.
The Srithale(Corypha umbraculifera)“Today we are extremely pleased that our campaign has achieved a milestone of dispersing a little over 1 lakh seeds of Srithale tree. From the banks of the Cauvery river to the Ganga river in Varanasi.
We had arrived at 75,000 seeds dispersed on the 75th year of freedom of our country, But on Friday we crossed 1 lakh seeds dispersed” Prof. S A Krishnaiah director of the Prachya Sanchaya (oriental Archives) Research Centre based at Udupi.
It is a conservation effort that is deeply rooted in culture and history. Thanks to Prof. SA Krishnaiah who is leading a single handed campaign to save the ‘Srithale’ a kind of palm tree that had provided leaves for engraving and recording history.
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