Bihar's capital will soon have its first e-library at the famous Khuda Bakhsh Oriental Public Library (KBPL) to be launched at a function in a couple of weeks time, official sources said.
Altogether 125 manuscripts including Jehangir-Namah, Shah-Namah, Al-Quran, Tarikh-i-Khandan-Timuriya, Kitab-al-Hashaish, Al-Lumafi-al-Tasawwuf and Diwan-i-Hafiz from the personal collection of Mughul emperors Humayun and Jehangir have already been digitised, they said.
The KBPL will not only be the city's first e-library, but will fulfil wishes of Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, put into words in the visitors' book during a trip to the Library in the early 1950s.
At a time digitisation and internet was unheard of, Nehru had expressed hope that the archival materials would get reproduced with latest techniques, so as to be available to a large number of people in future.
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