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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]