NEW DELHI, INDIA, December, 2011: The 15th World Sanskrit Conference, organized by Rashtriya Sanskrit Sansthan, New Delhi in association with the International Association of Sanskrit Studies, will be inaugurated by Honorable Prime Minister of India Dr. Manmohan Singh at Vigyan Bhavan, New Delhi on January 5, 2012 at 10 a.m.
Rashtriya Sanskrit Sansthan will release the catalogue of approximately 57,000 manuscripts belonging to its Ganganatha Jha Campus. The catalogue in ten volumes in hard copies will be released in the inaugural session of the Conference and it will also be uploaded on the website of the Sansthan.
A Sanskrit Book Fair is being arranged in the premises of the Indira Gandhi National Centre for Arts. The exhibitions and around 105 book-stalls in the Book Fair will remain open during conference days for scholars, students, delegates and Sanskrit lovers. The fair will feature revitalization of knowledge systems through manuscript wealth with focus on scientific traditions of India, Sanskrit and Sanskritic inscriptions in South East Asia, Historical traditions of India through manuscripts, Exhibition on Information Technology and computer tools related to Sanskrit.
The Conference will operate in twenty sections. About eight sessions will be running concurrently in four cakras (slots) on most of the days. Sections include: Veda; Linguistics; Epics and Puranas; Tantra and Agamas; Poetry, Drama and Aesthetics; Sanskrit and Asian Languages and Literatures; Sanskrit and Science; Buddhist Studies; Jain Studies; Philosophies; Religious Studies; Ritual Studies; Epigraphy; Sanskrit in Technological World; Modern Sanskrit Literature; Pandit-parishad; Law and Society; and Manuscriptology.
The 15th World Sanskrit Conference is going to be an important meet of Sanskrit scholars of various Universities and Institutions of the world who are working in different disciplines of Sanskrit Studies. Likely two hundred foreign delegates and one thousand Indian delegates will participate in the conference. They will interact and deliberate upon important issues of Sanskrit learning and research in the global scenario and present the essence of wisdom as well as the treasures from the Sanskrit-based knowledge systems. Visit sanskrit.nic.in for more details