Sanskrit Mahotsav started Lucknow University

Lucknow. The inaugural ceremony of Sanskrit Mahotsav was organized on the occasion of Sanskrit week today on 16.08.24 in the Department of Sanskrit and Prakrit Language, Lucknow University, Lucknow.

The chief guest on this occasion was Prof. Ramsumer Yadav, Head of the Department of Sanskrit and Prakrit Language, Lucknow University, Lucknow.

Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Ex-officio Head of the Department of Sanskrit and Prakrit Language, Prof. Arvind Mohan delivered the presidential address on the contemporary utility of Sanskrit. He urged why work related to economics is not being done in Sanskrit language today. Sanskrit language will not be saved by merely discussing its antiquity. We have to convey the benefits of speaking Sanskrit to the masses. No world-class research work is possible until Sanskrit is used in practice.

Since the age of learning language is early, but today, at a very old age, a lot of energy of the youth is being spent in learning Sanskrit language or English and other languages. The age of thinking of new methods, making inventions is 20-25 years. Which nowadays is being spent only in getting a degree or learning a new language.

If Sanskrit language is the mother tongue, then due to thinking through Sanskrit, the ability to make new inventions will also be obtained. We will have to move forward by maintaining a balance between Sanskrit, culture, heritage, science and development. You said that heritage is contained in Sanskrit texts and Puranas. Heritage cannot be preserved without the knowledge of Sanskrit.

Chief guest Prof. Ram Sumer Yadav described Sanskrit as the language of special thinking. He said that Sanskrit language is the root of linguistics. Sanskrit is the language of spirituality. Sanskrit is the language of peace. Sanskrit is the storehouse of knowledge and science, whose greatness has been acknowledged from time to time by great eminent scholars of the country and abroad.

Whatever is spoken in Sanskrit is written. Research in Sanskrit will now have to be linked to the solution of practical problems. There is an extreme need to link Sanskrit language with other subjects. It is a practical problem that the one who knows Sanskrit is not familiar with modern science and technology and the one who knows modern science and technology is unfamiliar with Sanskrit.

We will have to find a solution to this problem among us to make India great in the near future. In the absence of this, making Sanskrit a common language is a very difficult task. Therefore, today there is a need that on the occasion of this Sanskrit week, we organize a Sanskrit festival and take a firm resolution to adopt Sanskrit in our lives.

We should listen to Sanskrit, read Sanskrit and also speak Sanskrit. Today, listening and reading of Sanskrit is disappearing from real life, due to which Sanskrit language has become a subject. The language in which there is no public interaction, that language gets degraded.

The inaugural ceremony started with lighting of lamps followed by Vedic and worldly Mangalacharan. Dr. Abhimanyu Singh, Coordinator, Sanskrit and Prakrit Language Department, Lucknow University, Lucknow, verbally welcomed the guests who attended the function. Welcoming the eminent scholars, he said that Sanskrit Mahotsav is an opportunity to regain our self-pride. Through events like Sanskrit Mahotsav, we can recall the splendors of various Vasantotsav etc. events held in ancient India.

In fact, such events will prove to be the ones to introduce Sanskrit to every person in India. While giving the keynote address of the inaugural ceremony, Dr. Satyaketu informed about the purpose and topics of organizing the Sanskrit Mahotsav.

Dr. Richa Pandey gave the vote of thanks. In this event, students of Sanskrit and Prakrit Language Department, Lucknow University, Lucknow, Shraddha, Kavita, Srishti and Harshit also presented their programs. The program was conducted by Dr. Ashok Kumar Shatpathy.

On this occasion, Assistant Professors of Sanskrit Department and Astrology Department, Dr. Anil Kumar Porwal, Dr. Vishnukant Shukla, Dr. Anuj Kumar Shukla, and Assistant Professors of Sanskrit and Prakrit Language Department, Dr. Bhuvaneshwari Bhardwaj, Dr. Ashok Kumar Shatpathy, Dr. Gaurav Singh, Dr. Richa Pandey along with many other teachers and more than 100 students were also present.