IIT Hyderabad to offer spoken Sanskrit course

IIT-H in association with Samskrita Bharati Telangana has started a unique one credit beginner-level spoken Sanskrit course - “Samskritam: Sambhashana Praveshah” - from the coming academic year.

Sangareddy: With the objective of encouraging students of Indian Institute of Technology-Hyderabad (IIT-H) to learn to speak Sanskrit, IIT-H in association with Samskrita Bharati Telangana has started a unique one credit beginner-level spoken Sanskrit course – “Samskritam: Sambhashana Praveshah” – from the coming academic year.

The overall vision is to have a series of 4 or 5 Creative Arts (CA) courses at IIT-H by Samskrita Bharati in the days to come. Students from either the undergraduate or graduate programmes can choose these electives to learn Sanskrit in a formal and structured manner.

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Completion of these courses will enable the students to read and understand Sanskrit texts. While this has many advantages in itself, this could also lead to fostering a closer collaboration and research in between modern science and the ancient Indian sciences.

Examples are Chemistry/Metallurgy and Rasa shastra, Medicine and Ayurveda, linguistics-and Vyakarana and manys others.

Samskrita Bharathi is also offering free spoken Sanskrit courses to faculty of IIT-H.

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