The President of India Smt. Pratibha Devisingh Patil
today conferred Certificates of Honour
to scholars of Sanskrit, to scholars of
Sanskrit (International), to scholars of
Persian, scholars of Arabic
languages and scholars of Pali/Prakrit. The awards are announced
once a year on Independence Day in recognition of substantial contribution in
the field of Sanskrit, Persian, Arabic and Pali/Prakrit. The following is the list of scholars who
were awarded today. The awards ceremony
was for the years 2010 and 2011.
The awards for 2010 are as follows:-
SANSKRIT
1.
Prof. V. Swaminathan
2.
Prof. Umashanker
Sharma ‘Rishi’
3.
Dr. Shankar Dev Sharma Avtre
4.
Prof. Vijay Pandya Devshanker
5.
Shri H.V. Nagaraja Rao
6.
Pandit Moti Ram Shastri
7.
Dr. Deviprasad Khanderao Kharwandikar
8.
Shri Bhubaneshwar
Kar
9.
Pandit Madan Mohan Sharma
10. Shri G. R. Ramachandra Sastri
11. Prof. Sitanath Dey
12. Dr. Kapil Deva
Dvivedi
13. Dr. Ganesh Dutt
Sharma
14. Dr. Jaydutt Upreti
15.
Smt. Gouri Dharmapal
SANSKRIT
(INTERNATIONAL)
1.Prof. Csaba Tottossy
PERSIAN\
1.
Dr. S. M. Talha Rizvi “Burque”
2.
Dr. Muhammad Yousuf
ARABIC
1.
Prof. Mohd. Abdul Majeed
2.
Saeed Ahmad Palanpuri
3. Prof. Ashfaq
Ahmad Nadvi
PALI/PRAKRIT
1.
Dr. Udai
Chandra Jain
The awards for
2011 are as follows:-
SANSKRIT
1. Prof. Kaniyambakkam
Elayavilli Govindan
2. Dr. Nod Nath
Mishra
3. Dr. Satya
Dev Choudhary
4. Dr. Manibhai
Ishvarbhai Prajapati
5. Dr. Vijay Pal
6. Pt. Keshav
Ram Sharma
7. Shri Somayaji Vidwan
Samba Dixit
8. Prof. Rahas
Bihari Dwivedi
9. Prof. Krishna S. Arjunwadkar
10. Prof. (Dr.) Sadashiva
Praharaja
11. Prof. Indra
Datt Uniyal
12. Dr. Satya Vrat Varma
13. Sri V. Raghunatha
Sastrigal
14. Prof. Amar
Nath Pandey
15.
Prof. Pratap Banerjee
SANSKRIT
(INTERNATIONAL)
1.
Shri Huang Baosheng
PERSIAN
1. Prof. Mohammad Iqbal
2. Prof. Hafiz Mohammed Ziauddin
Alias Shamsi Tehrani
3. Dr. Md. Mansoor
Alam
ARABIC
1. Dr. Mohammad Atiqur
Rahman
2. Prof. Zainus
Sajidin Siddiqi
3. Dr. Muhammad Shahidullah
PALI
1. Prof. Angraj Chaudhary
In addition, the
President is also pleased to award the Maharshi
Badrayan Vyas Samman to the following scholars of Sanskrit,
Persian, Arabic and Pali/Prakrit:-
SANSKRIT
1. Dr. Braj
Bhushan Ojha
2. Dr. Somanath
Dash
3. Dr. Sampadananda
Mishra
4. Dr. Veernaryana
N.K. Pandurangi
5. Dr. Dharmendra
Kumar Singhdeo
PERSIAN
1. Dr. Shahid
Naukhez Azmi
ARABIC
1. Dr. Mujeebur
Rahman
PALI
- Dr. Mahaveer
Prabhachandra Shastri
The
distinction is conferred once a year on the Independence Day in recognition of
substantial contribution in the field of Sanskrit, Pali/Prakrit,
Arabic and Persian.
MV/GK