Department of Sanskrit

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Vision and Message of Head of Department

Dr. Chakaradhar Behera

Professor

Message from Head

In the context of Indian culture and tradition, Sanskrit is a classical language which possesses writings of our ancient social thinkers and poets dealing with the psycho-physical and socio-cultural dimension of humanity. Our ancient visionaries and social reformers might have been envisaged the potentiality and powerful semantic structure of this language and named it Samskṛtam which means purified, polished, refined, cultured,  pious, divine, pure and full of vigor and consciousness. From the dawn of human existence on earth, Sanskṛtam has been playing a vital role and has been profusely used as a medium of expression either for literary compositions or for verbal communication.  The major subjects composed in Sanskrit are dramaturgy, aesthetics, literature and literary criticism. prose and poetry, lyrics and fables, grammar and linguistics,  heterodox and orthodox philosophy, logic, spirituality and religious literature,  Culture,  ethics and morality, psychology,  mathematics  numerology  metallurgy,   astrology,  geometry,  astrology,  Āyurveda, Artha Śāstra,  Yudha Śāstr-Military science, Śilpa Śāstra,  Dhanurvidyā,  lexicography,   Hindu law, Socio-politics Studies and statesmanship, architecture, agriculture, mining and gemology, shipbuilding, geography,  astronomy,  environmental studies, physics, alchemy  botany  philosophy   logic, medicine and health care, geography,  polity and political economy  smruti literature depicting rites and rituals,   shipbuilding  food science.

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The Department has good infrastructural facilities including interactive class rooms, LCD and other teaching aids to assist teachers and students in their pursuit of academic excellence. The department has a small departmental library as well as school library. There is a large collection of books in Sanskrit in the main library of Pondicherry University. The aesthetically laid out and fully furnished Seminar Hall of the School of Humanities provides the venue for lectures and seminars regularly. There is a research scholars’ room with computers, broadband connection and Wi-Fi facility.
Sanskrit Literature and poetics, Grammar, Indian Philosophy
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