World Sanskrit Conference - New Delhi - January 5-10, 2012

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World Sanskrit Conference at New Delhi, Jan 5-10, 2012

Hindu Press International
Hinduism Today
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Tuesday, January 3, 2012

New Delhi, India, December, 2011 - The 15th World Sanskrit
Conference, organized by Rashtriya Sanskrit Sansthan, New Delhi in
association with the International Association of Sanskrit Studies,
will be inaugurated by Honorable Prime Minister of India Dr. Manmohan
Singh at Vigyan Bhavan, New Delhi on January 5, 2012 at 10 a.m.

Rashtriya Sanskrit Sansthan will release the catalogue of
approximately 57,000 manuscripts belonging to its Ganganatha Jha
Campus. The catalogue in ten volumes in hard copies will be released
in the inaugural session of the Conference and it will also be
uploaded on the website of the Sansthan.

A Sanskrit Book Fair is being arranged in the premises of the Indira
Gandhi National Centre for Arts. The exhibitions and around 105 book-
stalls in the Book Fair will remain open during conference days for
scholars, students, delegates and Sanskrit lovers. The fair will
feature revitalization of knowledge systems through manuscript wealth
with focus on scientific traditions of India, Sanskrit and Sanskritic
inscriptions in South East Asia, Historical traditions of India
through manuscripts, Exhibition on Information Technology and
computer tools related to Sanskrit.

The Conference will operate in twenty sections. About eight sessions
will be running concurrently in four cakras (slots) on most of the
days. Sections include: Veda; Linguistics; Epics and Puranas; Tantra
and Agamas; Poetry, Drama and Aesthetics; Sanskrit and Asian
Languages and Literatures; Sanskrit and Science; Buddhist Studies;
Jain Studies; Philosophies; Religious Studies; Ritual Studies;
Epigraphy; Sanskrit in Technological World; Modern Sanskrit
Literature; Pandit-parishad; Law and Society; and Manuscriptology.

The 15th World Sanskrit Conference is going to be an important meet
of Sanskrit scholars of various Universities and Institutions of the
world who are working in different disciplines of Sanskrit Studies.
Likely two hundred foreign delegates and one thousand Indian
delegates will participate in the conference. They will interact and
deliberate upon important issues of Sanskrit learning and research in
the global scenario and present the essence of wisdom as well as the
treasures from the Sanskrit-based knowledge systems. Visit
sanskrit.nic.in for more details

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