Around 2,200 ancient Marathi hand-written manuscripts including rare copies of Dnyaneshwari will be available online at the website of South Asian Studies Centre of the Deccan College , established by the Chicago University . The old and rare Marathi manuscripts range from 14th century to 19th century. V L Manjul, a former librarian of the Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute (BORI), is responsible for making these rare manuscripts available for people all over the world. Times of India reports The manuscripts range from the writings of different saints, biographies, purana granthas and translations from Sanskrit to Marathi by prominent writers like Vaman Pandit and Mukteshwar. It took almost six years for Manjul to locate these manuscripts, a collection which also includes about 100 copies of the Dnyaneshwari,' the oldest being a copy made in 1630. The descriptive catalogue will also be published in four parts soon under the title Union Catalogue of Mara