President honours Sanskrit, Arabic, Persian, Pali scholars

New Delhi, Aug 16 (UNI) The President has awarded the Maharishi Badrayan Vyas Samman to Dr Shrinivasa Varakhedi (Sanskrit) and Certificates of Honour to 22 scholars in Sanskrit, Pali/Prakrit, Arabic and Persian.

As many as 15 scholars would get the certificate for Sanskrit, three each for Arabic and Persian and one for Pali/Prakrit.

The Sanskrit scholars are Prof Lakshminarasimha Bhatta, Pandit Bhalachandrashastry Joshi, Mr Navalpakkam N Vardachariar, Dr Bhaskaracharya Tripathi, Mr Suresh Ambalal Upadhyaya, Prof Avanindra Kumar, Prof Lokesh Chandra, Mr Chandrasekhar Das, Dr P S Ananthanarayana Somayaji, Mr Perukkaranai Madabhushi Chakravarthy Acharya, Dr Rajdev Mishra, Prof Ramji Upadhyay, Mr Shiv Prasad Bharadwaj, Prof Manabendu Banerjee and Dr Suniti Kumar Pathak.

Those who would get the certificate for Arabic are Prof Mohsin Usmani, Maulana Habib Raihan Khan and Prof Shafiq Ahmad Khan.

The Persian winners are Prof Mohammad Sharaf-e-Alam, Prof Bombaywala Mohaiuddin Gulam Rasul and Prof Maria Bilquis.

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