Central Sanskrit University, Guruvayoor Campus, Thrissur
केन्द्रीय संस्कृत विश्वविद्यालय, गुरुवायूर परिसर, त्रिशूर
- Established
- 1979 (as a Kendriya Sanskrit Vidyapeetha); teaching since 1934
- Type
- College
- Location
- Thrissur, Kerala
About
The Kerala campus of Central Sanskrit University at Puranattukara, near Thrissur on the way to Guruvayoor. It began as the Guruvayoor Sahitya Deepika Sanskrit Vidyapeetha, which started degree courses in 1934, and teaches Sahitya, Vyakarana, Advaita Vedanta and Nyaya up to Acharya and Ph.D.
Courses & areas of study
- Prak Shastri (higher secondary)
- Shastri and Acharya in Sahitya, Vyakarana, Advaita Vedanta and Nyaya; Jyotisha at Shastri level
- Shiksha Shastri (B.Ed.)
- Vidyavaridhi (Ph.D.)
- Distance education centre at Pavaratty
History
Guruvayoor Sahitya Deepika Sanskrit Vidyapeetha
The Guruvayoor Sahitya Deepika Sanskrit Vidyapeetha started undergraduate and postgraduate Sanskrit courses under the University of Madras in 1934, and was later affiliated to the University of Kerala and then the University of Calicut. In 1972 it was affiliated to the Rashtriya Sanskrit Sansthan, which took it over on 16 July 1979 as the Guruvayoor Kendriya Sanskrit Vidyapeetha. It became the Sansthan's Guruvayoor Campus on its becoming a deemed university, and is now a campus of the Central Sanskrit University.
The campus
The campus stands on 14.65 acres in a green locality at Puranattukara, about 10 km from Thrissur railway station, with a main building built by the CPWD, boys' and girls' hostels of 40 rooms each, a library building and a guest house. A distance-education centre has worked since 2010 at P.T. Kuriakkose Smrithi Bhavan, Pavaratty, near Guruvayoor.