Sampurnanand Sanskrit Vishwavidyalaya

Sampurnanand Sanskrit Vishwavidyalaya
	Seal of Sampurnanand Sanskrit Vishwavidyalaya
Former names	Varanaseya Sanskrit Vishwavidyalaya; Government Sanskrit College, Varanasi;
Motto	Śrutam me gopāya
Motto in English	Let my learning be safe
Type	State
Established	1791 (233 years ago)
Chancellor	Governor of Uttar Pradesh
Vice-Chancellor	Bihari Lal Sharma
Location	Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India
Campus	Urban
Affiliations	UGC
Website	www.ssvv.ac.in

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 world. Currently university offers a range of undergraduate and postgraduate programs in various disciplines. The university has been accredited by NAAC and recognized by UGC.

History

In 1791, during the Benares State, a resident of the East India Company, Jonathan Duncan, proposed the establishment of a Sanskrit college for the development and preservation of Sanskrit Vangmaya (eloquence) to demonstrate British support for Indian education. The initiative was sanctioned by governor general Charles Cornwallis. The first teacher of the institution was Pandit Kashinath and the governor general sanctioned a budget of ₹20,000 per annum. The first principal of Government Sanskrit College was John Muir, followed by James R. Ballantyne, Ralph T. H. Griffith, George Thibaut, Arthur Venis, Sir Ganganath Jha and Gopinath Kaviraj.^[1]

In 1857, the college began postgraduate teaching. An examination system was adopted in 1880. In 1894, the famous Saraswati Bhavan Granthalaya building was built, where thousands of manuscripts remain preserved today. These manuscripts have been edited by the principal of the college and published in book form. More than 400 books have been published in a series known as Sarasvati Bhavana Granthamala.

In 1958, the efforts of Sampurnanand changed the status of the institution from that of a college to a Sanskrit university. In 1974, the name of the institution was formally changed to Sampurnanand Sanskrit University.^[2]

Departments

Adhunika Gyan Vijyana

Department of Education
Department of Library Science
Department of Modern Languages and Linguistics
Department of Science
Department of Social Sciences

Philosophy

Department of Comparative Religion and Philosophy
Department of Mimamsa
Department of Nyaya-Vaishesika
Department of Sankhya-Yoga-Tantragama
Department of Vedanta

Sahitya Sanskriti

Department of Puranetihasa
Department of Sahitya
Department of Prachina Rajashastra-Arthashastra

Shramana Vidya

Department of Baudha Darshana
Department of Jaina Darshana
Department of Pali and Theravada
Department of Prakrita and Jainagama
Department of Sanskrita Vidya

Veda-Vedanga

Department of Dharma Shastra
Department of Veda
Department of Jyotisha (Astrology)
Department of Vyakarana

Research Institute

When the institution was known as Sanskrit College, all research activities were carried out by the principal. This included the work done on manuscripts that were kept in the Saraswati Bhavan Granthalaya.

After the institution became a university, all research work was supervised by the director of the Research Institute, who is also the chief editor of the famous book series Sarasvati Bhavana Granthamala and the journal Sārasvatī Suṣamā.

The director is responsible for overseeing all research activities within the university, and serves as its academic head. Being a director, the renowned grammarian Vagish Shastri had made valuable contributions to the Sanskrit journal Sārasvatī Suṣamā and edited numerous books in the Sarasvati Bhavana Granthamala series.^[3]

Affiliation

Sampurnanand Sanskrit Vishwavidyalaya is a university in India that comprises over 600 ^[4] schools and colleges. The medium of instruction in these educational institutions is Sanskrit, Hindi, and English. It is the sole university in India that boasts of such extensive affiliation throughout the country. The state wise affiliated colleges' statistics are as follows:

No.	State	No. of affiliated colleges
1	Arunachal Pradesh	1
2	Bihar	10
3	Delhi	7
4	Gujarat	2
5	Haryana	7
7	Himachal Pradesh	1
6	Jammu and Kashmir	1
7	Maharashtra	4
8	Punjab	1
9	Rajasthan	4
10	Sikkim	5
11	Uttar Pradesh	554
12	West Bengal	6

References

^ History of Sampurnanand Sanskrit University Archived 29 April 2012 at the Wayback Machine
^ University Circular, Vol. 3 No. 1, Sampurnanand Sanskrit University.
^ Baldev Upadhyaya, Kashi ki Panditya Parampara, Vishwavidyalaya Prakashan, Varanasi, 1983.
^ https://www.ssvv.ac.in/download/webpages/To_Check_Affiliation.pdf^{[bare URL]}

External links

Official website

25°19′58″N 82°59′48″E / 25.3327°N 82.9967°E / 25.3327; 82.9967

[1] History of Sampurnanand Sanskrit University Archived 29 April 2012 at the Wayback Machine

[2] University Circular, Vol. 3 No. 1, Sampurnanand Sanskrit University.

[3] Baldev Upadhyaya, Kashi ki Panditya Parampara, Vishwavidyalaya Prakashan, Varanasi, 1983.

[4] ttps://www.ssvv.ac.in/download/webpages/To_Check_Affiliation.pdf^{[bare URL]}

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