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Saraswata Niketanam

Vetapalem mandal, India · built 1918

Saraswata Niketanam Library is located in Vetapalem, Chirala mandal, Andhra Pradesh, India. It is one of the oldest libraries in India, and has on display a rare collection of Palm leaf manuscripts and paper written in Hindi, Telugu, Sanskrit and a few other languages indigenous to India. The collection comprises well over 90,000 volumes, with a majority of these on display. The library has a complete catalogue of holdings, which is being made available online. Some rare holdings can be viewed on site by prior arrangement.

Library data from Wikidata (CC0). Summary from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA).

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