SOURCE- TOI

Soon, Buddhist scholars from Asian countries will get to read the ancient Tamil-Buddhist epic 'Manimekalai' in their own languages. One of the five great Tamil epics from the second century will be translated in 20 languages including Malay, Chinese, Japanese, Mongolian, Vietnamese, Burmese, Thai, Korean, and Sinhala by the Central Institute of Classical Tamil (CICT) with the collaboration of foreign experts and universities.

A sequel to the earliest Tamil epic 'Silappatikaram', it was composed by Seethalai Sathanar and has several reformist