{"id":11034,"date":"2016-07-15T11:27:52","date_gmt":"2016-07-15T11:27:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/globalpress.hinduismnow.org?p=11031&amp;preview_id=11031"},"modified":"2016-07-15T11:27:52","modified_gmt":"2016-07-15T11:27:52","slug":"punjabs-only-sanskrit-school-charges-no-fee-provides-free-accommodation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/?p=11034","title":{"rendered":"Punjab\u2019s only Sanskrit school charges no fee, provides free accommodation | HT"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"div_storyContent\">The 200 skin heads who wear white dhoti-kurta and recite <i>shlokas <\/i>at Kartarpur, about 12 kilometres from here, aren\u2019t from ancient university Nalanda but Punjab\u2019s only Sanskrit school, founded in 1970.Guru Virjanand Gurukul Mahavidyalaya attracts students from Uttar Pradesh, Odisha, Madhya Pradesh, Bihar, Delhi, Himachal Pradesh, and all over Punjab. Affiliated to Gurukul Kangari University, Haridwar, the Kartarpur college gives them free lessons and hostel. Sanskrit is the medium of conversation here.<\/p>\n<p>The day at the college starts with at 4am yoga and \u2018<i>yagna<\/i>\u2019, followed by regular classes from 8am to 2pm. \u201cThe starting class has become so good that now they even quarrel in Sanskrit,\u201d principal Udyan Arya said pointing to a Class-6 student. A boy from Bihar said in Sanskrit that he always wanted to study the language. The institution has 15 teachers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSanskrit creates its words, while other languages acquire them,\u201d said the principal. \u201cWe say \u2018chalwaak\u2019 for mobile and \u2018antarjaal\u2019 for the internet. It\u2019s a myth that studying Sanskrit will kill Punjabi, when Punjabi originated from Sanskrit.\u201dAsked to explain the shaved heads of students, Arya said: \u201cThey are required to do this at admission, to keep their focus on studies.\u201d A Sanskrit student, he said, will never commit suicide.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSanskrit is value education. Studying the language makes you strong psychologically, so our students never fall into drugs.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The intake is through an entrance examination. This year, the college had 300 applicants, of which 30 got through. Four students are from Nepal.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 200 skin heads who wear white dhoti-kurta and recite shlokas at Kartarpur, about 12 kilometres from here, aren\u2019t from ancient university Nalanda but Punjab\u2019s only Sanskrit school, founded in 1970.Guru Virjanand Gurukul Mahavidyalaya attracts students from Uttar Pradesh, Odisha, Madhya Pradesh, Bihar, Delhi, Himachal Pradesh, and all over Punjab. Affiliated to Gurukul Kangari University, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11034"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11034"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11034\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}