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Sanskrita Sahitya Parishad

From Hindupedia, the Hindu Encyclopedia

By Swami Harshananda

Foundation[edit]

This institution owes its origin to a handful of Sanskrit pundits with limited financial resources but endowed with unlimited love and zeal for the rich heritage of the country. It was founded in A. D. 1916 in a tiny rented house. It is now housed in its own spacious three storeyed building. It has now become an advanced center of Sanskrit learning and research.

Aspects[edit]

It has all the aspects of a typical research center. They are:

  1. Teaching facilities
  2. A well- equipped library providing all opportunities for research
  3. Publishing books after carefully scrutinizing and editing the manuscripts
  4. Bringing out a journal of its own

Contribution[edit]

  • It provides free teaching in its Catuspāthi section in subjects like:
  1. Vedānta
  2. Navyanyāya
  3. Sāṅkhya
  4. Smṛtis
  5. Pāṇini
  6. Kāvya
  • Scholarships are also offered to meritorious students.
  • The Pariṣat can boast of possessing 20,000 manuscripts, especially on the subjects of dharmaśāstras and Navyanyāya.
  • Descriptive catalogs of the manuscripts are almost ready for publication.
  • The library has 22,000 printed books which are easily available to non-members also for reference work.

Achievements[edit]

  • Another specialty of this library is that it is able to add photo copies of extremely rare books also whenever the originals are available.
  • The Pariṣat is publishing a monthly Sanskrit journal of research value.
  • It has also brought out fifty important Sanskrit texts so far.
  • More are in the offing in the near future.

Goals[edit]

  • Work is now under progress on the famous work on Navyanyāya, the Tattvacintāmaṇi of Gaṅgeśa[1] with the commentary Mayukha.
  • The several Tattvas of Raghunandana[2] are also in the process of being published in due course.
  • Other activities of the institution include honoring veteran and great scholars in Sanskrit, organizing dramatic shows in Sanskrit for popularizing the language and conducting classes on German language.


References[edit]

  1. ↑ He lived in circa A. D. 1200.
  2. ↑ He lived in 16th Century A. D.
  • The Concise Encyclopedia of Hinduism, Swami Harshananda, Ram Krishna Math, Bangalore

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