New Age Islam News Bureau. Photograph: PTI Photo. North America. South Asia. Southeast Asia. Arab World. A rare 16th century copy of the Holy Quran written in gold ink preserved by a Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh-inspired organisation is kept on display at the th Indian Science Congress ISC currently being held here in Maharashtra.
An official of the organisation that has displayed the gold ink Quran on Tuesday said there are only four copies of this holy book in the world. RFRF is the research wing of Bharatiya Shikshan Mandal and works for preserving ancient Indian knowledge systems and implementing it in the present perspective.
The Mandal was formed to accomplish a national resurgence in the field of education, according to its website. All about the gold-ink Quran. Bobade, who is also the principal investigator at the National Manuscript Authority in New Delhi, said the footnotes in this Quran are written in the Nastaliq script.
He said Nastaliq and Kufi are the two scripts used in Persian. Nastaliq is considered the world's best script. Another speciality of the rare gold ink Quran manuscript is it contains pages without a single mistake. But despite the small size, there is not a single mistake on any of these pages. This is the uniqueness of this book," said Bobade. He said the copy of the Quran was given to them by the family of Diwan of the Nizam of Hyderabad. RFRF's collection of ancient manuscripts.
Similarly, it also mentions who all worked there and the locations from where stones and marbles were brought," Bobade said. The RFRF has till now digitised 1.
