Sri Venkateswara Vedic University is a

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located at

Tirupati Tirupati () is a city in the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh. It is the administrative headquarters of the Tirupati district. The city is home to the important Hindu shrine of Tirumala Venkateswara Temple and other historic temples and is refe ...

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Andhra Pradesh Andhra Pradesh (, abbr. AP) is a state in the south-eastern coastal region of India. It is the seventh-largest state by area covering an area of and tenth-most populous state with 49,386,799 inhabitants. It is bordered by Telangana to the ...

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. It was established in 2006 by the

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, sponsored by the

Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanams Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanams (TTD) is an independent trust which manages the temples including the Tirumala Venkateswara Temple in Andhra Pradesh. The trust oversees the operations and finances of the richest and the most visited religious cent ...

(TTD), and focuses on Vedic studies.

History

Sri Venkateswara Vedic University establishment follows a decision taken by the

(TTD) board in 1992 to establish a

Vedic upright=1.2, The Vedas are ancient Sanskrit texts of Hinduism. Above: A page from the '' Atharvaveda''. The Vedas (, , ) are a large body of religious texts originating in ancient India. Composed in Vedic Sanskrit, the texts constitute the ...

university at

. Following

Rameshwar Thakur Rameshwar Thakur (28 July 1925 – 15 January 2015) was a senior Indian National Congress politician and former union minister of India, he was the Governor of Madhya Pradesh from 2009 to 2011 and Governor of Odisha from 2004 to 2006, Andhra Pra ...

assuming charge as

Governor of Andhra Pradesh This is a list of governors of Andhra, including Andhra State and United Andhra Pradesh, in office from 1953 to the present date. The official residence of the governor is the Raj Bhavan, situated in Vijayawada. E. S. L. Narasimhan is the lon ...

in January 2006, he started a process which culminated in an Act for the establishment of the university, passed in September 2006.

Faculties

The institute has seven faculties: * Faculty of Veda Adhyayana * Faculty of Agama Adhyayana * Faculty of Paurohitya Adhyayana * Faculty of Vedabhashya * Faculty of Vedaangas * Faculty of Research & Publication * Faculty of Modern Subjects

References

External links

* Universities in Andhra Pradesh Educational institutions established in 2006 2006 establishments in Andhra Pradesh Universities and colleges in Tirupati Sanskrit universities in India {{AndhraPradesh-university-stub