Gujarat govt to honor Sanskrit Pandits with awards


Gandhinagar, 4 July 2013

Gujarat Sanskrit Sahitya Akademi will give away Sahitya Gaurav Puraskar and Yuva Gaurav Puraskar to three pandits of Sanrkrit language on 9 July, 2013 at 6.00 pm in Gandhinagar town hall.

Bhavnagar based Yajurved expert Shri Jayantilal Vrajlal Shukla, Samved scholar Vadodara’s Shri Pinakiprasad Umashankar Oza and Ahmedabad based Shukla Yajurved pandit Shri Vasudev Vishnuprasad Pathak will be given Rs. 50,000 cash and felicitation letter. Pandit Dr. Vijay Devshankar Pandya will be given Rs. one lakh Sahitya Gaurav award. Gandhinagar based Sanskrit exper Shri Sureshkumar Trambaklal Vyas will be given year 2012 Yuva Gaurav Puraskar.