Sanskrita Sahitya Parishad
From Hindupedia, the Hindu Encyclopedia
By Swami Harshananda
Foundation[edit]
This institution owes its origin to a handful of Sanskrit pundits with limited financial resources but endowed with unlimited love and zeal for the rich heritage of the country. It was founded in A. D. 1916 in a tiny rented house. It is now housed in its own spacious three storeyed building. It has now become an advanced center of Sanskrit learning and research.
Aspects[edit]
It has all the aspects of a typical research center. They are:
- Teaching facilities
- A well- equipped library providing all opportunities for research
- Publishing books after carefully scrutinizing and editing the manuscripts
- Bringing out a journal of its own
Contribution[edit]
- It provides free teaching in its Catuspāthi section in subjects like:
- Vedānta
- Navyanyāya
- Sāṅkhya
- Smṛtis
- Pāṇini
- Kāvya
- Scholarships are also offered to meritorious students.
- The Pariṣat can boast of possessing 20,000 manuscripts, especially on the subjects of dharmaśāstras and Navyanyāya.
- Descriptive catalogs of the manuscripts are almost ready for publication.
- The library has 22,000 printed books which are easily available to non-members also for reference work.
Achievements[edit]
- Another specialty of this library is that it is able to add photo copies of extremely rare books also whenever the originals are available.
- The Pariṣat is publishing a monthly Sanskrit journal of research value.
- It has also brought out fifty important Sanskrit texts so far.
- More are in the offing in the near future.
Goals[edit]
- Work is now under progress on the famous work on Navyanyāya, the Tattvacintāmaṇi of Gaṅgeśa[1] with the commentary Mayukha.
- The several Tattvas of Raghunandana[2] are also in the process of being published in due course.
- Other activities of the institution include honoring veteran and great scholars in Sanskrit, organizing dramatic shows in Sanskrit for popularizing the language and conducting classes on German language.
References[edit]
- The Concise Encyclopedia of Hinduism, Swami Harshananda, Ram Krishna Math, Bangalore