Over 55 thousand valuable manuscripts containing the practice of Ayurvedic and Siddha medicines have been documented under the National Mission for Manuscripts. The present term of this Mission will end in March next year. Culture Minister Mahesh Sharma stated this in the Lok Sabha today. <br/><br/>In reply to a question he said the number of manuscripts documented so far is more than 40 lakh eighty-two thousand. The maximum number of manuscripts documented are in Sanskrit followed by Odia, Hindi, Tibetan, Tamil, Malayalam, Kannada, Persian, Arabic, Assamese, Telugu, Urdu and Bengali.