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The Sree Sankaracharya University of Sanskrit, Kalady, will launch its new Centre for Academic Writing on August 16. The centre will cater to the writing needs of students, scholars and faculty ...

Anantapur:A year-long ‘Dev Vani Sanskrit’ language for all’ course to encourage students and elders to learn the ancient language has been introduced by AP Central University, Anantapur. Vice ...

Maharshi Panini Sanskrit Vishwavidyalaya, Madhya Pradesh is a State university in Madhya Pradesh. It is located in B. M. birla Shodh Sansthan Parisar, Dewas Road, Ujjain Madhya Pradesh-456010. Given ...

Twelve participants secured A and two participants B grades respectively in the story writing competition in Sanskrit held in HSS Sanskrit category in the 55 th state kalolsavam held in Kozhikode.

Here is a bizarre jumble of sounds and/or words — not, as one might think, the rhythm syllables that accompany an Indian dance, but a piece from a renowned Sanskrit work on mathematics and astronomy: ...

Chemists familiar with the history of the periodic table may be aware that Dmitri Mendeleev gave the prefixes eka, dvi, and tri (Sanskrit for “one,” “two,” and “three”) to eight then-unknown elements.

To hear a recital from the Rig Veda is like listening to a recording from the late Bronze Age. The language in which it was composed is unequalled in prestige and remarkable in both antiquity and ...