The awards of Certificate of Honour and Maharshi Badrayan Vyas Samman are Indian Presidential honours which are conferred on academics by the

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once a year on the

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, celebrated on 15 August; in recognition of their substantial contribution in the various fields of languages including

Arabic Arabic (, , or , ) is a Central Semitic languages, Central Semitic language of the Afroasiatic languages, Afroasiatic language family spoken primarily in the Arab world. The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) assigns lang ...

Kannada Kannada () is a Dravidian language spoken predominantly in the state of Karnataka in southwestern India, and spoken by a minority of the population in all neighbouring states. It has 44 million native speakers, and is additionally a ...

Sanskrit Sanskrit (; stem form ; nominal singular , ,) is a classical language belonging to the Indo-Aryan languages, Indo-Aryan branch of the Indo-European languages. It arose in northwest South Asia after its predecessor languages had Trans-cultural ...

Malayalam Malayalam (; , ) is a Dravidian languages, Dravidian language spoken in the Indian state of Kerala and the union territories of Lakshadweep and Puducherry (union territory), Puducherry (Mahé district) by the Malayali people. It is one of ...

, Oriya,

Pali Pāli (, IAST: pāl̤i) is a Classical languages of India, classical Middle Indo-Aryan languages, Middle Indo-Aryan language of the Indian subcontinent. It is widely studied because it is the language of the Buddhist ''Pali Canon, Pāli Can ...

Persian Persian may refer to: * People and things from Iran, historically called ''Persia'' in the English language ** Persians, the majority ethnic group in Iran, not to be conflated with the Iranic peoples ** Persian language, an Iranian language of the ...

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and the

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language. The awards come under the umbrella of the language division of the

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's Department of Higher Education. The award takes its name from Bādarāyaṇa, the founder of the Vedanta system of Philosophy, who wrote the Vedāntasūtra k.a. Brahmasūtra.

Introductory years

The Certificate of Honour for

and

languages were introduced in 1958 and certificates for

and

were introduced in 1966. The Maharshi Badrayan Vyas Samman award was introduced in the 2002 for Arabic Persian and Sanskrit and also for

and

languages. Since the year 2016, both the Certificate of Honourand and the Maharshi Badrayan Vyas Samman have been conferred upon scholars of classical

, classical

, classical Oriya and the classical

language.

Age criteria and content of award

The Certificate of Honour-i is awarded to selected Indian scholars having an age of 60 years or above. It honour includes a certificate, a memento and one time cash of five hundred thousand Indian rupees. The Certificate of Honour-ii is awarded to selected scholars

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and foreigners of non-Indian origin, who aged 60 years or above. The award constitutes a certificate, a memento and one time cash of five hundred thousand Indian rupees. The Maharshi Badrayan Vyas Samman is conferred upon selected young scholars aged between 30 and 45. It constituted a certificate of honour, a memento and a one time cash of one hundred thousand Indian rupees.

For classical Tamil

The awards for classical

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is provided by

separately every year. First recognised classical language in 2004. Award was introduced in 2005 and is managed by the

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, an autonomous institution under the language division of

's Department of Higher Education. These awards have certain distinctions: # Tholkāppiyar Award (equivalent to Certificate of Honour-i) #

Kural Peedam Award The Kural Peedam Award () is a lifetime achievement presidential award given to eminent scholars of classical Tamil. The award was instituted in 2005 by the Central Institute of Classical Tamil under the aegis of the Ministry of Human Resource ...

(equivalent to Certificate of Honour-ii) #

Young Scholar Award Young may refer to: * Offspring, the product of reproduction of a new organism produced by one or more parents * Youth, the time of life when one's age is low, often meaning the time between childhood and adulthood Music * The Young, an American ...

(equivalent to Maharshi Badrayan Vyas Samman - age limit: 30–40 years)

Recipients

Certificate of Honour

2019

Sanskrit

* Sripada Satyanarayanamurthy * Rajendra Nath Sarma * Ramji Thakur * Chand Kiran Saluja * ShriKrishan Sharma * V. Ramakrishna Bhatt * Vidwan Janardana Hegde * Kala Acharya * Harekrishna Satapathy * Pandit Satya Dev Sharma * Shri Banwari Lal Gaur * V.S. Karunakaran * Yugal Kishor Mishra * Manudev Bhattacharya * Subuddhi Charan Goswami

Pali

* Uma Shankar Vyas

Prakrit

* Kamal Chand Sogani

Arabic

* Faizanullah Farooqi * Mohammad Iqbal Husain * Mohd. Samiullah Khan

Persian

* Iraq Raza Zaidi * Chander Shekhar * Mohammad Sidiq Niazmand

Classical Kannada

* Hampa Nagarajaiah

Classical Telugu

* Ravva Srihari

Classical Malayalam

* C.P. Achuthan Unny

Classical Odia

* Antaryami Mishra

Maharshi Badrayan Vyas Samman

2012

Sanskrit

Sampadananda Mishra Sampadananda Mishra (, born 17 November 1971) is a Sanskrit scholar from Odisha, specializing in grammar. Mishra was awarded the Maharshi Badrayan Vyas Award for Sanskrit in 2012 by the President of India Pratibha Patil. He was conferred with S ...

*Chandra Bhushan Jha *Malihar Arvind Kulkarni *Narayan Dash *Sasibhushan Mishra

Persian

*Asad Ali Khurshid

2013

Sanskrit

Balram Shukla Balram Shukla (; born 19 January 1982) is an academician, poet and author based in New Delhi. He is a self-taught scholar of Sanskrit and Indian literature. He works as a professor of Sanskrit at the University of Delhi. He is a scholar of Sansk ...

2019

Sanskrit

* Ashok Thapliyal * Sujata Tripathi * Sanju Mishra * Abhijit Hanmant Joshi * Sharachchandra Dwivedi

Pali

*Ms. Anoma Shriram Sakhare

Prakrit

* Ashish Kumar Jain

Arabic

* Fauzan Ahmad

Persian

* M. Shahbaz Alam

Classical Kannada

* G.B. Harisha * S. Karthik * M. Byrappa

Classical Telugu

* Addanki Srinivas * V. Triveni * D.K. Prabhakar

Classical Malayalam

* Rajeev R.R. * Santhosh Thottingal

Classical Odia

Subrat Kumar Prusty Subrat Kumar Prusty (born 1976) is an Indian Odia language, Odia-language scholar, activist, social entrepreneur, Literary criticism, literary critic and author. He is Member Secretary of the Institute of Odia Studies and Research, Bhubaneswar, ...

References

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