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Digital Shikshapatri provides instant online access to a treasure of the British Hindu cultural heritage that is held in Oxford's Bodleian Library. This fragile Sanskrit manuscript, called the Shikshapatri, was written by Shree Swaminaryan, founder of Swaminarayan Hinduism, and outlines moral and spiritual codes for everyday life.
This site provides a wide variety of online resources which set the Shikshapatri in its historical, cultural and religious context. It is designed to help people of all backgrounds to better understand the significance of this manuscript, which receives hundreds of visitors every year.
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News
The Digital Shikshapatri is being moved to a new software and hardware platform to ensure its continued availability. Some parts of the site may not work properly while this work is being completed. Currently, the Search facility is not available and biographies are not displayed with the correct formatting.
The Shikshapatri manuscript has been damaged by constant handling for darshans during the past twenty years. Some of the pages have come loose and the stitching on the edge of the cover is coming off. We regret that it has had to be sent to the Bodleian Library's Preservation Department and will not be available for darshan for some time.
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New users - Introductory video
We have prepared an introductory video to the Shikshapatri for visitors who are new to the manuscript. It covers the history from Lord Swaminaryan in Nineteenth Century India, through to the present day and the creation of the Digital Shikshapatri.
The video requires the Macromedia Flash 6 plugin.
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Multimedia
A reading of the Shikshapatri
A video of Yogi Charan Das reading the Shikshapatri is now online.
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