The Contribution provided by University of Kelaniya for the preservation of Palm Leaf Manuscript in Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka: a country which has an ancient history on writing traditions preserves its uniqueness through the palm leaf manuscript. It can be considered that palm leaf manuscript had contributed in a massive scale in order to present the local historical knowledge from generation to generation. As a result of the invasion of European nations and the introduction of printing media, a clear degradation had been taken place in the writing tradition of palm leaf manuscript. Yet, though the printing media was introduced not that it could completely replace the use of palm leaf manuscripts until two more centuries. However, gradually the “paper” could replace the use of palm leaf  manuscripts and consequently the attention held by palm leaf manuscript was diverted in to paper. by this time a great amount of palm leaf manuscripts were owned by ancient temples and secret personalities. Thus, with the degradation of the value possessed by the palm leaf manuscripts gradually they were destroyed. In order to get rid of this destruction, several parties had been engaged to preserve palm leaf manuscript. Yet, many of those had been limited only for bibliographies. Therefore, for quite a long period of time, the need to implement a standard  ethodology to preserve the palm leaf manuscript of Sri Lanka had been an important concern in the context of Sri Lankan ancient history. This task had been easier with the invention of digitization which is done with the aid of computerized technologies. This digitization can be considered as a very cost effective and an efficient as a very preserve the palm leaf
manuscript.