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The Sanskrit Universities are specialized universities that aim to promote and spread sanskrit education, shastraic education and related research.. The following is a list of at least 18 Sanskrit universities in India (3 central, 1 deemed and 14 state universities) which are only focused on Sanskrit revival and Sanskrit studies along with related disciplines like Ayurveda.
The Central Board of Secondary Education in India has made Sanskrit a third language in the schools it governs (though it is an option for a school to adopt it or not, the other choice being the state's own official language). In such schools, learning Sanskrit is an option for grades 5 to 8 (Classes V to VIII).
In India, Sanskrit is among the 22 official languages of India in the Eighth Schedule to the Constitution. [212] In 2010, Uttarakhand became the first state in India to make Sanskrit its second official language. [213] In 2019, Himachal Pradesh made Sanskrit its second official language, becoming the second state in India to do so. [214]
Sanskrit was a pan-Indian language in the Vedic and classical period but lost its place to its derivative regional dialects in modern India. Samskrita Bharati has its headquarters in New Delhi . According to their own figures, repeated often in their promotional literature, by 1998, 2.9 million people had attended the conversation camps.
Sampurnanand Sanskrit Vishwavidyalaya (IAST: Sampūrṇānand Saṃskṛta Viśvavidyālaya, Vāraṇāsī; formerly Varanaseya Sanskrit Vishwavidyalaya and Government Sanskrit College, Varanasi) is an Indian university and institution of higher learning located in Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh. It is one of the largest Sanskrit universities in the ...
National Sanskrit University, is a central university in Tirupati, Andhra Pradesh, India. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] In addition to regular courses at undergraduate (bachelor's) and postgraduate (master's) degree level, the university also offers several distance learning courses.
Shastry sees Sanskrit as being India's lingua franca. [12] He says, "Till now Samskrit has only been seen from a spiritual or religious perspective; it is high time Samskrit is approached from a scientific point of view as well." [3] He opines that Sanskrit would be a unifying factor in India. [13]
Sanskrit is taught in many South Asia Studies and/or Linguistics departments in Western universities. In addition to this, it is also used during worship in Hindu temples in the West, being the Hindu liturgical language, and Sanskrit revival attempts are underway amongst expatriate Hindu populations.