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Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit has advocated for promotion of Sanskrit at school level. Read the rest of this entry »
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Justice P N Bhagwati, former Chief Justice of India and Chancellor of Shri Lal Bhadur Shastri Sanskrit Vidyapeet has urged the teaching community to make Sanskrit job-oriented and increase employability among the students. Read the rest of this entry »
The first World Sanskrit Book Fair will be held here in January next year. Read the rest of this entry »
Works of Patanjali, founder of Yoga and one of the greatest philosophers of India who lived 1,500 years ago, have now been translated into Arabic.
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President of India Pratibha Devi Singh Patil conferred Certificate of Honour to the scholars of classical languages like Sanskrit, Pali, Prakrit, Arbic and Persian on the occasion of 64th Independence Day. The honour is conferred once a year on the Independence Day in recognition of substantial contribution in the field languages like Sanskrit, Persian, Arabic and Pali/Prakrit.
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Sanskrit, Tamil, Kannada and Telugu languages have been classified as classical languages of India. Various schemes have been launched by the government to promote these languages.
According to Minister of State for Planning and Parliamentary Affairs V Narayansamy these promotional initiatives include research, documentation, development and preservation of the language. Government has also instituted chairs related to the language and commissioned various awards to the eminent scholars of these languages
World Sanskrit Conference will be organize in 2012 to unearth vast scientific knowledge from Sanskrit literature and to discuss Sanskrit’s progress. Rashtriya Sanskrit Sansthan will organize the Conference in January 2012. The Conference would have two sessions devoted for science and technology in Sanskrit literature.
The Sansthan has been publishing research journal, Sanskrit vimarsh (discourse), articles related scientific knowledge in the Sanskrit literature for a long time. According to the HRD Ministry there are several institutions which have been working to unearth vast knowledge of science and technology in Sanskrit Literature. These include Rashtriya Sanskrit Vidyapeeth, Tirupati, and Rashtriya Sanskrit Sansthan too. The Sanskrit Vidyapeeth has prepared 200 exhibits covering a variety of subjects like Physics, Chemistry, Biology, Medicine, Metallurgy, Mathematics, Gemology and several others.