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The School of Sanskrit and Indic Studies (संस्कृत एवं प्राच्यविद्या अध्ययन संस्थान) was created by upgrading the Special Center for Sanskrit Studies to a full-fledged school on 18/12/2017. The earlier special center was set up in 2001 with the following goals -
► Negotiate between, and bring together, through interactive projects, the traditional scholars/scholarship and the mainstream university scholars/scholarship
► Undertake maintenance and preservation of heritage texts and manuscripts
► Constitute and expound theoretical framework from the primary intellectual texts of the Sanskrit tradition, and
► Extend and validate the classical theories by applying them both to contemporary Indian reality (modern Indian languages, literature, etc.) and to contemporary European Languages and literature (to reverse the existing data-theory relationship between the Indian academy and the Western academy and to recover theory status for the Indian thought),
► Undertake comparative research in Indian and Western traditions of thought in linguistics, literary and cultural theory, philosophy including philosophy of language,metrics and prosody, sociological thought, polity, gender, and ethnic studies and culture.
The School of Sanskrit and Indic Studies (SSIS) currently has M.A., M.Phil., Ph.D. programs and five Certificate of Proficiency (CoP) courses in Sanskrit, Pali, Sanskrit Computational Linguistics, Yoga Philosophy and Vedic Culture.
Sanskrit Computational Linguistics Lab
The School has a strong focus on Computational Sanskrit, integrating traditional linguistic insights with modern technological tools. To support this vision, it houses a dedicated Sanskrit Computational Linguistics Lab that facilitates advanced research and model training. The lab is equipped with 20 computers and 2 GPUs specifically used for machine learning and deep learning applications. The school maintains a robust server infrastructure comprising five powerful servers named after eminent Sanskrit grammarians and philosophers: Pāṇini, Patañjali, Kātyāyana, Bhartṛhari and Nāgeśa. These computational resources play a vital role in supporting ongoing research in speech technology, natural language processing, manuscript digitization and machine translation for Sanskrit and other Indian languages.
