Mundri

Mundri
village
Mundri
Location in Haryana, India
Mundri
Mundri (India)
Coordinates: 29°46′48″N 76°29′49″E / 29.7800782°N 76.4968371°E / 29.7800782; 76.4968371Coordinates: 29°46′48″N 76°29′49″E / 29.7800782°N 76.4968371°E / 29.7800782; 76.4968371
Country  India
State Haryana
District Kaithal
Languages
 • Official Hindi
Time zone UTC+5:30 (IST)
Telephone code +91-01746-XXXXXX[1]
Vehicle registration HR-05
Website haryana.gov.in

Mundri is a village in Kaithal tehsil of kaithal district of Haryana in India.[2][3] Maharishi Balmiki Sanskrit University was established at Mundri in 2018 by the Government of Haryana is located here.[4]

Education

Maharishi Balmiki Sanskrit University was established at Mundri in 2018 by the Government of Haryana,[4][5] through a legislative bill passed in Haryana Vidhan Sabha.[4][6][7] It is named after the Hindu sage, Balmiki,[7] the celebrated Sanskrit literature author of Ramayana (500 BC to 100 BC),[8][9][10][11][12] who was contemporary of Rama and revered as Ādi Kavi, the first poet, author of Ramayana, the first epic poem. Haryana state has over 24 Sanskrit colleges offering education equivalent to bachelors degree, additionally masters and doctoral level degrees are also offered by the Kurukshetra University and Maharshi Dayanand University.[13]

References

  1. ↑ Mundri STD code
  2. ↑ Area profiler: Mundri.
  3. ↑ Mundri details
  4. 1 2 3 Maharishi Balmiki Sanskrit University to be set up at Kaithal, Business Standard, 15 Mar 2018.
  5. ↑ Haryana announces Sanskrit university, Jagranjosh.
  6. ↑ Sanskrit University to be set up in Kaithal: Manohar Lal Khattar, Times of India, 21 Feb 2017.
  7. 1 2 Khattar announces scholarships, Sanskrit university for SCs, The Hindu, 24 Oct 2015
  8. ↑ "All Indian life is here". The Guardian. 23 August 2008. Retrieved 27 April 2015. Read 5th Paragraph
  9. ↑ "Sri Aurobindo on the Indian Epic Ramayana" (PDF). uwf.edu. University of West Florida. p. 2. Retrieved 27 April 2015. read end paragraph of page 2
  10. ↑ Valmiki, Robert P. Goldman (1990). The Ramayana of Valmiki: An Epic of Ancient India. 1. Princeton University Press. pp. 14–15. ISBN 0-691-01485-X.
  11. ↑ "harking back : Myths and facts of the beginnings of Lahore".
  12. ↑ Goldman, Robert P., The Ramayana of Valmiki: An Epic of Ancient India pp. 23
  13. ↑ Haryana in Sanskrit Studies In India, Rashtriya Sanskrit Sansthan.

See also

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