Samskriti Foundation

Samskriti Foundation® (a Public Trust registered in headquartered in Mysore, Karnataka with offices in Melkote (an ancient cultural town and seat of traditional knowledge) and Bangalore, is a non-profit organization engaged in the preservation and propagation of the Cultural and Scientific Heritage of India as well as in the development of sustainable Science and Technology without eroding the values of life and disturbing the ecological balance in Nature. It aims to bring together Science and Spirituality and to show that they can move hand in hand and lead a successful, peaceful and harmonious life. Samskriti Foundation® is into mining of information from ancient palm-leaf manuscripts and books in Sanskrit and other languages of India regarding different topics as varied as Metallurgy, Aeronautics, Ayurveda, Music, Linguistics etc. Currently, Samskriti Foundation® has taken up the project to classify, catalogue and document all the available ancient palm-leaf manuscripts pertaining to various branches of science and technology. Several research projects are being carried out in collaboration with premier research Institutes regarding combining the wisdom of Science and Technology that prevailed in ancient India like metallurgy, alchemy etc. Over the last two decades of its existence, it has brought out several publications in the form of books, and Interactive Multimedia programs (web-apps and mobile apps) on various aspects of Indian cultural heritage including Yoga, Manuscriptology and so on. Various courses are also being conducted for students from India and Countries abroad to propagate Spiritual Practices, Indian Philosophy, Traditional Indian Agriculture, Animal Husbandry, Indian Astronomy etc. that are based in the rich Indian Cultural Heritage.