The President of India today gave
away “Certificate of Honour” and “Maharshi Badrayan Vyas Samman”
for the years 2008 and 2009 to the Scholars of Sanskrit, Arabic, Persian, Pali/Prakrit to 51 recipients for the years 2008 and 2009
(announced on the eve of the Independence Day, 2008 and 2009) and also 17 Presidential
Awards for Classical Tamil for the years 2005-06 to 2007-08.
Presidential Award of Certificate of
Honour is announced on the eve of Independence Day every year in recognition of
the outstanding contribution by various scholars of eminence over 60 years of
age, in the field of Sanskrit, Arabic, Persian or Pali/Prakrit
in recognition of their teaching experience, published work and their efforts
in keeping the tradition of these languages alive. Further from the year 2008 it has also been
decided to institute one international award for Sanskrit to non-resident
Indians or persons of non-Indian origin on the same lines of as of award to an
Indian. The total number of awards from
the year 2008 onwards would be 15 awards for Sanskrit, one international Award
for Sanskrit, consisting of one time monetary grant of Rs.5 lakh
to each awards, 3 awards each for Arabic and Persian and one award for Pali/Prakrit, each carrying a monetary grant of Rs.50,000/-
per annum for lifetime. A Sanad and a shawl is also
presented to each of the awardees by the President of India.
Young scholars of (Sanskrit, Pali/Prakit, Arabic and Persian) in the age group of 30 to
40 years, who have made a breakthrough in the interdisciplinary studies
involving contribution of these languages or the ancient Indian wisdom, to the
process of synergy between modernity and tradition are granted Maharshi Badrayan Vyas Samman on this occasion
every year. This Award carries a
one-time cash award of Rs.1.00 lakh along with a Sanad and a shawl, which is presented by the President of
India. A maximum number of 5 young
scholars of Sanskrit and one each in Pali/Prakrit,
Arabic and Persian are conferred with the award every year.
Presidential Awards for scholars in
classical Tamil were instituted from 2005-2006 with provision
of eight (8) awards each year as under:-
(i)
Three (3) awards, one for
person of India national (Tholkappiyar Award) and two international awards, one each
fro person of India
origin and another for Non Indian origin (Kural Peedam Award), for eminent scholars of Tamil as lifetime
achievement awards. The award consists
of a one time monetary grant of Rs.5.00 lakh each,
along with a Sanad and a Shawl.
(ii)
Five (5) for scholars of Tamil
in the age group of 30-40 years (Young scholar Award) with a one time financial
grant of Rs.1.00 lakh each, apart from a Sanad and a shawl.
A total of 17 scholars have been
selected for these awards for the year 2005-2006, 2006-2007 and 2007-2008.
The following scholars (or their
representatives) of Sanskrit, Pali/Prakrit, Arabic
and Persian received Certificate of Honour for the year 2008:
List of
Awardees for the year 2008
Sanskrit
1.
Prof. K. Hayavadana,
Puranik
2.
Dr. Vishnubhatla
Subrahamanya Sastry
3.
Dr. Uma
Ramana Jha
4.
Prof. (Dr.) Smt.
Aruna Goel
5.
Shri Nar
Deo Shastri
6.
Dr. M.E. Rangachar
7.
Dr. Keshavrao
Musalgaonkar
8.
Smt. Saroja Bhate
9.
Pandit Baikuntha Bihari
Nanda
10.
Pandit Satya Narayan Shastri
11.
Shri Ananthakrishnan
Sivarnamakrishna Sastry
12.
Shri Janardan
Pandey
13.
Pandit Purushottama Tripathi
14.
Shri Bhabani
Prasad Bhattacharya
15.
Dr. Sitanath
Acharya
Pali/Prakrit
1.
Prof. Gokul
Chandra Jain
Arabic
1.
Dr. Zohurul
Bari Azmi
2.
Muhammad Burhanuddin
Sambhali
3.
Dr. Taqi
UD Din Nadwi
Persian
- Dr. Idris
Ahmad
- Dr. Syeda Bilqis Fatima Husaini
- Prof. Marghoob
Banihali
In addition, the President also gave
away the Maharshi Badrayan Vyas Samman to the following
scholar of Sanskrit:
Sanskrit
1. Prof. K. Ramasubramanian
The List of
Awardees for the year 2009 is as follows:
Sanskrit
1.
Prof. Kompella
Ramasuryanarayana
2.
Prof.(Dr.) Vachaspati
Sharma Tripathi
3.
Dr. Ramakant
Shukla
4.
Prof. Vishwa
Murti Shastri
5.
Dr. N.S. Anatha Rangachar
6.
Dr. N. Gopala
Panicker
7.
Dr. Sudyumna
Acharya
8.
Prof. Keshao
Ramrao Joshi
9.
Dr. Bhagaban
Panda
10.
Dr. (Smt.)
Kamal Anand
11.
Pt. Badari
Prasad Shastri
12.
Pt. Annadur
Rajagopala Chariar
13.
Prof. Ram Chandra Pandey
14.
Prof. Ashok
Kumar Kalia
15.
Dr. Samiran
Chandra Chakrabarti
Sanskrit
International
1. Prof Sheldon Pollock
Pali/Prakrit
1. Dr. Dharma Chandra Jain
Arabic
1.
Prof. Shabbir
Ahmad Nadvi
2.
Prof. (Dr.) Shah Abdus Salam
3.
Shri Abullais
Ansari
Persian
1. Prof. (Smt.) Rehana Khatoon
2. Dr. Mohd. Yaseen Quddusi
3. Prof. Syed
Mohammad Tariq Hasan
In addition, the President also gave
away the Maharshi Badrayan Vyas Samman to the following
scholars of Sanskrit and Persion:-
1. Dr. Malhar Arvind Kulkarni
2. Dr. Sachchidanand
Mishra
3. Dr. Narayan
Dash
4. Dr. Sashibhusan
Mishra
Persian
1. Dr. Asad Ali Khurshid
The following scholars of Classical
Tamil have been given ‘The Presidential Awards for Classical Tamil’ for the
years 2005-06, 2006-07 and 2007-08:-
1. Tholkappiar Award
(2005-06)
(i) Prof. Adigalasiriyar
2. Kural Peedam Award (2006-07)
(i) Dr. George L. Hart, USA
3. Young Scholar Award
(a) For
the year 2005-06
(i) Dr. R. Aravendan
(Thamotharan)
(ii) Dr.
Y. Manikandan
(iii) Dr.S. Kalaimagal
(iv) Dr. Va. Mu. Se. Muthuramalinga Aandavar
(v) Dr.K. Pajanivelou
(b) For
the year 2006-07
(i) Dr.
S. Chandra
(ii) Dr.
Aranga Pari
(iii) Dr. Mu. Elangovan
(iv) Dr.
M. Bhavani
(v) Dr.
R. Kalaivani
(c) For
the year 2007-08
(i) Dr. A. Selvarasu
(ii) Dr.
P. Velmurugan
(iii) Dr. A. Manavalagan
(iv) Shri
S. Chandrasekaran
(v) Dr.
S. Simon John
MV/SKS/Hb