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Preserving the Puranas from Hindu Dharma
For a thousand or ten thousand years our temples and the festivals associated 
with them have nurtured our religious traditions against various opposing 
forces. Every temple has a story to tell; every temple festival has a legend 
behind it. These have been preserved in the Puranas. To ignore or neglect this 
great heritage, this great treasure, is to cause serious hurt to the religious 
feelings of our people. 

In the past, when there was no printing press, the palm-leaf manuscripts were 
jealously guarded generation after generation. Is it right to keep them in 
neglect when so many books are churned out by the printing presses today, the 
majority of them injurious to our inner advancement? It is our duty to preserve 
the Puranas for future generations. Not to do so is to deprive them of great 
source of inspiration


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