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The Purana Tilakam Project has the following primary objectives:

  1. Search, Identify and Organize the available manuscripts of Bhāgavata Purāṇa and digitally preserve manuscripts currently existing in different libraries.

  2. List all commentaries available on Bhāgavata Purāṇa in various languages and identify respective commentators

  3. Digitally preserve all editions of Bhāgavata Purāṇa manuscripts and commentaries on Bhāgavata Purāṇa and make online searchable database as well as make a offline mobile, tablet friendly repository

  4. Type and transliterate all the original texts in digital unicode system, which can be converted into Devanagari, Bengali, Telugu, Tamil and other Indian language characters.

  5. Prepare a critical edition for all cantos of Bhāgavata Purāṇa and its commentaries along with the biography of the commentators.

  6. Translate and comment on all the verses into English, Telugu and other Indian languages and also have an online searchable edition of all of them.

  7. Lecture on each verse of Bhāgavata Purāṇa and also answer questions based on Bhāgavata Purāṇa

  8. Perform comparative study of commentaries on Bhāgavatam and particularly do an in-depth study of bhaktivedanta purports

  9. To setup Bhāgavata Vidya Peetha to train interested and qualified students in the philosophy, poetry and mellow of Bhāgavata Purāṇa

  10. With a view towards achieving the aforementioned purposes, to publish and distribute periodicals, magazines, books, news letters and other writings.