ଗଙ୍ଗାଧର ମେହେର ବିଶ୍ୱବିଦ୍ୟାଳୟ, ସମ୍ବଲପୁର, ଓଡିଶା
Gangadhar Meher University, Sambalpur, Odisha
Sanskrit Language and literature is a great repository of knowledge encompassing every work of life, be it science, technology, agriculture, arts, astronomy, architecture, medicine, metallurgy, mathematics, management, economics, ecology, etc. In today’s globalised economy and in in the context of knowledge society, we need Sanskrit more then ever before, to preserve our moorings to bridge the ancient and the modern to unravel the knowledge contained in the ancient texts to protect our intellectual property rights, to explore new avenues of innovations and to lead Bharat into the forefront of the future knowledge driven-globe.
The School of Sanskrit is one of the Oldest Department of Gangadhar Meher University. From the starting, teaching was imparted both Intermediate and Undergraduate Courses. Sanskrit M.A Course was introduced in 1977, M.Phil Course was introduced in 2010 and Ph.D Course was introduced in 2019. At present, the School of Sanskrit imparts teaching in Undergraduate Courses, Post-graduate Courses and Ph.D Courses. For the first time in the M.A Sanskrit Curriculum in G.M. University , We have introduced the special papers in three branches of School of Sanskrit. Those are Grammar, Veda and Vedic Literature, and Classical Literature . Along with these Special papers, our Students will read other general papers in their P.G first year like Indian Philosophies, Dharmashastras, Linguistics, Indian Poetics and different branches of Literature like Prose, Poetry, Dramas, Fables and Fairy tales, Jyotisha, Vastushastraetc. In the PG Part-II only, Our students have to opt Special Papers along with their General Papers. We have introduced this to enable our students to compete with the students of other States and National Universities who have special papers in their Course Curriculum. The present curriculum empowers the learners to have glimpses of varieties of knowledge treasure stored in the Sanskrit Language. This will help them to explore more and more existing resources of different knowledge tools. They can go for higher research and unravel the important text and significant ideas not explored till date.
Introducing the students to the Ancient Indian Knowledge System and Culture by encouraging the research on Shastric texts and creating competent students to identify and work on the Interdisciplinary studies related to Sanskrit.
