President Patil gives away Awards to Sanskrit, Persian, Arabic, Pali/Prakrit Scholars

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The President of India Smt. Pratibha Devisingh Patil  conferred Certificatesof  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 VyasSamman 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

1. 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.