The awards of Certificate of Honour and Maharshi Badrayan Vyas Samman are Indian Presidential honours which are conferred on academics by the

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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

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, Oriya,

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and the

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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

and

languages were introduced in 1958 and certificates for

and

were introduced in 1966. The Maharshi Badrayan Vyas Samman award was introduced in the 2002 for Arabic Persian and Sanskrit and also for

and

languages. Since the year 2016, both the Certificate of Honourand and the Maharshi Badrayan Vyas Samman have been conferred upon scholars of classical

, classical

, classical Oriya and the classical

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

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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.

For classical Tamil

The awards for classical

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is provided by

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

Recipients

Certificate of Honour

2019

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 Sampadananda Mishra ( or, ସମ୍ପଦାନନ୍ଦ ମିଶ୍ର, born 17 November 1971) is a Sanskrit scholar from Odisha, specializing in grammar. Mishra was awarded the Maharshi Badrayan Vyas Award for Sanskrit in 2012 by the Preside ...

*Chandra Bhushan Jha *Malihar Arvind Kulkarni *Narayan Dash *Sasibhushan Mishra

Persian

*Asad Ali Khurshid

2013

Sanskrit

Balram Shukla Balram Shukla ( hi, बलराम शुक्ल; born 19 January 1982) is an academician, poet and author based in New Delhi. He is a self-taught scholar of Sanskrit and Indian literature. He works as a professor of Sanskrit at the Univers ...

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

Classical Telugu

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

Classical Malayalam

* Rajeev R.R. * Santhosh Thottingal

Classical Odia

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References

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