Universities[edit]A list of Sanskrit universities is given below in chronological order:Year Est.NameLocation

1791Sampurnanand Sanskrit UniversityVarnasi

1876Sadvidya PathashalaMysore

1961Kameshwar Singh Darbhanga Sanskrit UniversityDarbhanga

1962Rashtriya Sanskrit VidyapeethaTirupati

1962Shri Lal Bahadur Shastri Rashtriya Sanskrit VidyapeethaNew Delhi

1970Rashtriya Sanskrit SansthanNew Delhi

1981Shri Jagannath Sanskrit VishvavidayalayaPuri

1986Nepal Sanskrit UniversityNepal

1993Sree Sankaracharya University of SanskritKalady

1997Kavikulaguru Kalidas Sanskrit UniversityRamtek

2001Jagadguru Ramanandacharya Rajasthan Sanskrit UniversityJaipur

2005Shree Somnath Sanskrit UniversitySomnath-Veraval

2008Maharshi Panini Sanskrit Evam Vedic VishwavidyalayaUjjain

2011Karnataka Samskrit UniversityBangalore

Many universities throughout the world train and employ Sanskrit scholars either within a separate Sanskrit department, or within a broader focus area for example, in South Asian studies/linguistics departments in universities across the West. For example, Delhi university has about 400 Sanskrit students, out of which about half are reading it in post-graduation programmes.[31]