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In India, Sanskrit is among the 22 official languages of India in the Eighth Schedule to the Constitution. [211] In 2010, Uttarakhand became the first state in India to make Sanskrit its second official language. [212] In 2019, Himachal Pradesh made Sanskrit its second official language, becoming the second state in India to do so. [213]
Sanskrit is one of the 22 official languages in India. [3] In 2010, Uttarakhand became the first state in India to have Sanskrit as its second official language. [4] In 2019, Himachal Pradesh became the second state to have Sanskrit as the second official language. [5] There are 2,360,821 total speakers of Sanskrit in India, as of 2011. [6]
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.
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.
In 2003, a committee was established by Government of India, to study the possible inclusion of more languages to the schedule. As per the Ministry of Home Affairs , there are demands for inclusion of 38 more languages in the Eighth Schedule to the Constitution.
Vedic Sanskrit is the language of the Vedas, a large collection of hymns, incantations, and religio-philosophical discussions which form the earliest religious texts in India and the basis for much of the Hindu religion.
Sanskrit literature is a broad term for all literature composed in Sanskrit.This includes texts composed in the earliest attested descendant of the Proto-Indo-Aryan language known as Vedic Sanskrit, texts in Classical Sanskrit as well as some mixed and non-standard forms of Sanskrit.
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.