Central Sanskrit University, New Delhi
केन्द्रीय संस्कृत विश्वविद्यालय, नई दिल्ली
- Established
- 1970
- Type
- University
- Location
- New Delhi, Delhi
About
Describes itself as the largest, and the only multi-campus, language university in the world. It began as the Rashtriya Sanskrit Sansthan in 1970, became a Deemed University in 2002 and a Central University in 2020. Its campuses — from Jammu and Kangra to Puri, Sringeri and Guruvayoor — teach Sanskrit from school level through Shastri, Acharya and Vidyavaridhi (Ph.D.), in subjects including Sahitya, Vyakarana and Jyotish.
Courses & areas of study
- Prak Shastri (intermediate level) at campuses
- Shastri (equivalent to B.A.)
- Acharya (equivalent to M.A.)
- Vidyavaridhi (Ph.D.)
- Shiksha Shastri (B.Ed.)
- Subjects taught across campuses include Sahitya, Vyakarana, Jyotish and Jain Darshan
History
From the Sanskrit Commission to the Sansthan
Acting on the recommendations of the Sanskrit Commission (1956–57), the Government of India constituted a Central Sanskrit Board, which recommended a national institution for Sanskrit. The Rashtriya Sanskrit Sansthan was accordingly established on 15 October 1970 as an autonomous, fully government-funded society for developing and promoting Sanskrit in India and abroad.
A network of campuses
Over the following decades the Sansthan set up campuses across the country, teaching Sanskrit from Class 6 up to Shastri (graduation), Acharya (post-graduation) and Vidyavaridhi (Ph.D.). Two of them — the Lal Bahadur Shastri Kendriya Sanskrit Vidyapeetha in New Delhi and the Kendriya Sanskrit Vidyapeetha in Tirupati — grew into Deemed Universities of their own. In 2002 the Sansthan itself, with its constituent campuses, was declared a Deemed University.
Central University (2020)
On 16 March 2020 Parliament passed the Central Sanskrit Universities Act, 2020, under which the Sansthan and those two former campuses became Central Sanskrit Universities. Its campuses today are Shri Maharaja Ranbir Singh Campus (Jammu), Jaipur, Vedvyas Campus (Balahar, Kangra), Ekalavya Campus (Agartala), Shri Sadashiv Campus (Puri), Lucknow, Bhopal, Shri Raghunath Kirti Campus (Devaprayag), Ganganath Jha Campus (Prayagraj), Guruvayoor Campus (Thrissur), Rajiv Gandhi Campus (Sringeri) and Nashik.