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Sheila bats for promotion of Sanskrit

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By fachcha.com
Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit has advocated for promotion of Sanskrit at school level. Commenting on the current trend of opting German or French for language paper at school level the Chief Minister said that it is not a good for the culture and our society. In a function of Sanskrit Academy in New Delhi she said that the culture and thinking process nurtured among ourselves is actually contribution of our language. Terming Sanskrit as mother of all Indian languages, both Aryan and Dravidian, she said that it should be encouraged and promoted by our institutions and experts.

The Chief Minister praised the recent efforts of the Academy to stage several Sanskrit plays last year and said that the process will be continued in a better manner this year. Several books of Academy too were released on the occasion.

Make Sanskrit job-oriented: Justice Bhagwati

Sat, 27 Nov 2010 05:43:22 +0000

By FNS
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. He was addressing 13th convocation of the Vidyapeeth on 26th November. 18 students were awarded Ph.D. on the occasion. 300 students were also awarded various other degrees.

Prof. Vachaspati Upadhyaay, Vice Chancellor of the Vidhyapeeth talked about the challenges before Sanskrit and suggested to overcome from these future challenges through science and technology. Four scholars too were conferred with honorary degrees of Vachaspati and Mahamahopadhyay on the occasion. These include Prof. D. Prahladacharya, Prof. Dayanad Bhargav, Pushpa Dikshit and Shiv Prasad Bhardwaj.

World Sanskrit Book Fair in January

Tue, 21 Sep 2010 02:14:41 +0000

The first World Sanskrit Book Fair will be held here in January next year.

Scholars in the ancient Indian language from around 20 countries will interact with their Indian counterparts on the “treasure house of Indian knowledge tradition”, the organisers said Monday.

“Scholars from about 20 countries, including Britain and Germany, are expected to participate in the four-day fair beginning Jan 7,” said M.N. Venkatachalaiah, former chief justice of India and president of the National Advisory Board, World Sanskrit Book Fair.

Though titled World Sanskrit Book Fair, it will have books in all Indian languages on Sanskrit literature.

“People are longing to go back to the roots and access primary sources (of knowledge). Hence the fair is being held to make Sanskrit literature available in all Indian languages to the public,” Venkatachalaiah said.

The popularity of Yoga, Ayurveda, Vedanta (ancient Hindu religious texts) and Bhagawad Gita has brought about renewed interest the world over to learn Sanskrit, he said.

The Rashtriya Sanskrit Sansthan, Sanskrit universities, oriental research institutes and Sanskrit academies will be among the participants, he said.

About 100 publishers from India will display their books in and on Sanskrit.

Around 10,000 delegates from India and abroad will participate. There will be a three-day national conference of Sanskrit scholars and an exhibition on “Knowledge Heritage of India”.

IANS

Patanjali yoga now available in Arabic too

Thu, 19 Aug 2010 01:35:49 +0000

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.

“Kalima”, the Arabic translation of the original works in Sanskrit, was done by Abdul Wahab Al Maqaleh, a professor of translation at the Faculty of Languages at Sanaa University, Yemen. The project was conducted by the Abu Dhabi Authority for Culture and Heritage (ADACH).

The book consists of 195 proverbs divided into four chapters – Yoga and its aims, Yoga and its practice, Powers and Liberation. It is regarded as a major document on the practice of yoga meditation, which is said to have many health benefits.

The original works in Sanskrit were first translated into English. It was titled “How to Know God: Yoga Aphorisms of Patanjali” by Swami Prabhavananda and Christopher Isherwood.

Christopher Isherwood had previously collaborated with Prabhavananda in the translation of “Bhagavad-Gita: The Song of God” and “Shankara’s Crest Jewel of Discrimination”.

(IANS)

Certificate of Honour for Sanskrit scholars on I-Day

Sun, 15 Aug 2010 08:54:20 +0000

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.
The list of scholars include:

SANSKRIT

V. Swaminathan, Umashanker Sharma ‘Rishi’, Shankar Dev Sharma Avtre, Vijay Pandya Devshanker, H.V. Nagaraja Rao, Pandit Moti Ram Shastri,, Deviprasad Khanderao Kharwandikar, Bhubaneshwar Kar, Pandit Madan Mohan Sharma, G. R. Ramachandra Sastri, Sitanath Dey, Kapil Deva Dvivedi, Ganesh Dutt Sharma, Jaydutt Upreti, Gouri Dharmapal and Csaba Tottossy

PERSIAN

S. M. Talha Rizvi “Burque”, Dr. Muhammad Yousuf

ARABIC
Mohd. Abdul Majeed, Saeed Ahmad Palanpuri, Ashfaq Ahmad Nadvi

PALI/PRAKRIT

Udai Chandra Jain

Sanskrit, Tamil among classical languages

Wed, 05 May 2010 12:28:47 +0000

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 in 2012

Thu, 17 Dec 2009 05:35:53 +0000

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.