President awards certificates of honour to 29 scholars
August 15th, 2009 - 1:18 pm ICT by ANINew Delhi, Aug.15 (ANI): The President, Pratibha Devisingh Patil, on Saturday, awarded Certificates of Honour to 29 distinguished scholars of Sanskrit, Pali/Prakrit, Arabic and Persian. They are as follows:
SANSKRIT
1.Prof. Kompella Ramasuryanarayana2.Prof. (Dr.) Vachaspati Sharma Tripathi3.Dr. Ramakant Shukla4.Prof. Vishwa Murti Shastri5.Dr. N.S. Anatha Rangachar6.Dr. N. Gopala Panicker7.Dr. Sudyumna Acharya8.Prof. Keshao Ramrao Joshi9.Dr. Bhagaban Panda10.Dr. (Smt.) Kamal Anand11.Pt. Badari Prasad Shastri12.Pt. Annadur Rajagopala Chariar13.Prof. Ram Chandra Pandey14.Prof. Ashok Kumar Kalia15.Dr. Samiran Chandra Chakrabarti
SANSKRIT (INTERNATIONAL)
1.Prof. Sheldon Pollock
PALI/PRAKRIT
1.Dr. Dharma Chandra Jain
ARABIC
1.Prof. Shabbir Ahmad Nadvi2.Prof. (Dr.) Shah Abdus Salam3.Shri Abullais Ansari
PERSIAN
1.Prof. (Smt.) Rehana Khatoon2.Dr. Mohd. Yaseen Quddusi3.Prof. Syed Mohammad Tariq Hasan
The President also awarded the Maharshi Badrayan Vyas Samman to the following scholars of Sanskrit and Persian:-
SANSKRIT
1.Dr. Chandra Bhushan Jha2.Dr. Malhar Arvind Kulkarni3.Dr. Sachchidanand Mishra4.Dr. Narayan Dash5.Dr. Sashibhusan Mishra
PERSIAN
1.Dr. Asad Ali Khurshid
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. (ANI)
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