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What
do the French Institute in Pondicherry,
El Colegio de Mexico, Harvard University
and Tel Aviv University have in
common? All of them offer courses
in Sanskrit in different parts of
the world.According to a list of
institutes offering Sanskrit made
available at the University of Iowa
in the US via its MyWeb network,
many institutions in the US and
Europe offer Sanskrit studies. MyWeb
is a facility created for all Iowa
university faculty, staff and students
for publishing individual, academic
related web pages. A page on 'Academic
Sanskrit Studies around the World'
is available at myweb.uiowa.edu/pjai/Sanskrit/SanskritStudies.htm.
It has been posted by Pankaj Jain,
who teaches Sanskrit at Rutgers
University at New Brunswick in the
US. It shows an impressive list
of resources available on Sanskrit
education globally. The site offers
information about the institutions
in India, North America, Australia,
Europe (Austria, Belgium, Britain,
Denmark, Finland, France, Germany,
Italy, the Netherlands, Norway,
Russia, Sweden, Switzerland), the
Middle East, Japan and Thailand.
North America - primarily the US
- has the largest number of Sanskrit
academic institutions, according
to the list.The El Colegio de Mexico,
Brown University, Columbia University,
Concordia University in Canada,
Cornell University, Emory University,
Johns Hopkins University, Harvard
University (Sanskrit and Indian
Studies), Indiana University, McGill
University and the McMaster University
in Canada are some of these institutions.Also
on the list are the Ohio State University,
Rutgers University, University of
California at Berkeley, University
of Alabama (through its Critical
Languages Center), University of
British Columbia and University
of Calgary in Canada, and University
of Chicago.There are 18 other such
universities in the US.'Sanskrit
is being taught as an Indo-European
language in dozens of universities
in the US. Hindi and Sanskrit are
the most popular South Asian languages,
and some places also teach Urdu,
Tamil and Bengali,' said Jain.Jain
teaches the First Year Sanskrit
(Spring, Fall 2007) course at the
university on Tuesdays and Thursdays.Institutions
in India offering Sanskrit that
made it to the list include the
Academy of Sanskrit Research located
at Melkote in the Mandya district
of Karnataka.Other institutions
offering Sanskrit courses in India
include the French Institute, Pondicherry;
the Indira Gandhi National Centre
for the Arts, Delhi; the Institute
of Asian Studies, Chennai; and the
Department of Sanskrit and Prakrit
Languages of Pune University.
Courtesy:
www.indiaenews.com, July 10, 2007
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