Maharshi Badrayan Vyas Samman Explained

Maharshi Badrayan Vyas Samman should not be confused with Vyas Samman.

The awards of Certificate of Honour and Maharshi Badrayan Vyas Samman are Indian Presidential honours which are conferred on academics by the President of India once a year on the Indian Independence Day, celebrated on 15 August; in recognition of their substantial contribution in the various fields of languages including Arabic, Kannada, Sanskrit, Malayalam, Oriya, Pali, Persian, Prakrit and the Telugu language.

The awards come under the umbrella of the language division of the Ministry of Education'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 Arabic Persian and Sanskrit languages were introduced in 1958 and certificates for Pali and Prakrit were introduced in 1966.

The Maharshi Badrayan Vyas Samman award was introduced in the 2002 for Arabic Persian and Sanskrit and also for Pali and Prakrit languages. Since the year 2016, both the Certificate of Honourand and the Maharshi Badrayan Vyas Samman have been conferred upon scholars of classical Kannada, classical Malayalam, classical Oriya and the classical Telugu 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 Overseas Indians 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.^{[1] [2]}

For classical Tamil

The awards for classical Tamil is provided by President of India separately every year. It was introduced in 2005, and is managed by the Central Institute of Classical Tamil, an autonomous institution under the language division of Ministry of Education's Department of Higher Education. These awards have certain distinctions:

1. Tholkāppiyar Award (equivalent to Certificate of Honour-i)
2. Kural Peedam Award (equivalent to Certificate of Honour-ii)
3. Young Scholar Award (equivalent to Maharshi Badrayan Vyas Samman - age limit: 30–40 years)

Recipients

Certificate of Honour

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^[3]
• Chandra Bhushan Jha
• Malihar Arvind Kulkarni
• Narayan Dash
• Sasibhushan Mishra

Persian

• Asad Ali Khurshid

Sanskrit

• Balram Shukla^[4]

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^[5]

Classical Telugu

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

Classical Malayalam

• Rajeev R.R.
• Santhosh Thottingal

Classical Odia

• Subrat Kumar Prusty

Notes and References

1. News: Sanskrit scholar to get Badrayan award. The Hindu. 2 September 2015 . 2018-10-19.
2. Web site: President Awards the Certificate of Honour and Maharshi Badrayan Vyas Samman for the Year 2018. pib.nic.in. 2018-10-19.
3. News: 2009-08-16 . 23 scholars named for President's Award . en-IN . The Hindu . 2021-08-24 . 0971-751X.
4. Joshi . Sunil . Sharma . Richa . Singh . Rekha (hosts) . Vaartavali: Sanskrit News Magazine . Vaartavali . Sanskrit . . 19 November 2016 . 5 March 2017 . ज्ञानार्जनक्षेत्रे भूयो भूयः कृतश्रमः संस्कृतफ़ारसीभाषयोः गहनाध्येता विद्वान् अद्यास्ति अस्मदीयः त्रिज्यातिथिः। युवसंस्कृतविद्वद्भ्यः उपकल्पितेन महर्षिबादरायणव्याससम्मानेन सभाजितः डॉ.बलरामशुक्लः अत्र उपस्थितोऽस्ति। संस्कृतजगति युवविद्वत्सु वरेण्यः, संस्कृतव्याकरणभाषाविज्ञानविशारदः, बहुभाषाप्रवीणः, संस्कृतकविषु प्रथितयशाः, गहनानुसन्धाता च विराजते डॉ.बलरामशुक्लः। ज्ञानदानस्य पुण्यकार्यं विदधानः विद्वान् एषः प्रतिष्ठितेन महर्षिबादरायणव्याससम्मानेनापि गौरवान्वितोऽस्ति। संस्कृतपारसीकभाषयोः पटुत्वेन ईरानदेशेऽपि लब्धकीर्तिः बहुमानभाजकश्च डा. बलरामशुक्लः अद्य संवादाय अस्मदीयविशेषातिथिरूपेण अत्र उपस्थितोऽस्ति।.
5. News: President Awards the Certificate of Honour and Maharshi Badrayan Vyas Samman for the Year 2019. Press Information Bureo of India. 15 August 2019. 24 May 2021.