Grantha is a word derived from Sanskrit, one of the oldest known words for a book. Its age is not just a measure of time, but foremost a measure of cultural continuity, while its meaningfulness results from direct experience of the complexity of communication right at its origins, far from coincidence. In addition to book, grantha also means manuscript, things tied together, knot or composition. This pre-word expresses more than the name of an object, it speaks of how physically manipulating fragments bind the parts together and a message is created that resists time beyond the scale of an individual life.