Centres of Excellence approved for five newly classical languages, including Pāli and Prākṛt
The Ministry of Education set up five Centres of Excellence for research, digitisation and preservation: Assamese at Tezpur University, Bengali at Visva-Bharati, Pāli at the Central University of Odisha, Prākṛt at the Central University of Gujarat and Marathi at Deccan College, Pune.
- ANI
The Ministry of Education set up five Centres of Excellence for research, digitisation and preservation: Assamese at Tezpur University, Bengali at Visva-Bharati, Pāli at the Central University of Odisha, Prākṛt at the Central University of Gujarat and Marathi at Deccan College, Pune.
Why it matters
The Pāli and Prākṛt textual traditions, which carry the Buddhist and Jain canons, get an institutional home and funding.
GK: did you know?
These five languages received classical status on 3 October 2024, taking the total to 11. Tamil was the first, in 2004.
