National Sanskrit university to bring out panchangam on Ugadi

TIRUPATI: National Sanskrit university, Tirupati, is getting ready to bring out a ‘Panchangam’ (almanac) on the occasion of Ugadi, the Telugu new year’s day next year. The almanac will be prepared by the in-house departments of Jyotisha and Vasthu, with the help of experts from outside.

As part of reaching out to the society, the varsity has announced the launch of five counseling centres viz., Yoga (mind-body control), Vasthu (civil engineering), Agama (temple worship), Jyotisha (astrology) and Karmakanda (rituals pertaining to death).

The establishment of these centres is necessitated by the growing number of denizens making frequent visits to the campus to get their doubts cleared on these aspects.

“General public nurture a number of doubts on these issues and we deem it as our responsibility to clear the air, especially when there is scope for misguidance by the unqualified”, said the Vice-Chancellor G.S.R. Krishnamurthy.

Addressing a press conference in Tirupati on Tuesday to highlight the latest initiatives taken up by the varsity, he also explained the plan to enter into an MoU with Siddhanta knowledge foundation, Chennai to highlight the Indian knowledge systems by making available study material in Sanskrit, English and Telugu.

Titled ‘Mission Dasaradha’, the foundation has also agreed to extend financial assistance of Rs.60 lakh towards payment of scholarship to ten Gurukula students at the rate of Rs.5000 per student for ten years, Prof. Krishnamurthy explained.

NSU is also deputing its team of fourteen staff members to participate in the Utkarsha Mahotsav to be organised by Sri Lal Bahadur Shastri national Sanskrit university, New Delhi on August 21 and 22 this year. Two outstanding scholars will be awarded with the title ‘Bharatiya Vidya Bhooshan’ at the event.

Registrar RJ Ramashree, Deans Rajanikanth Shukla (Academic affairs), V Vishnu Bhattacharyulu (Darsanas), Krishneswar Jha (Veda Vedanga) and Public Relations Officer V Ramesh Babu were present.