The Department of Sanskrit of Burdwan Raj College began its journey with the inception of College in 1881 and the Honours Course was started from 1962 under The University of Burdwan. With a glorious heritage of 143 years, the Department has an outstanding legacy.

In fact, Sanskrit has a golden treasure of humanity because it is famous for having traditional eighteen Vidyāsthānas (Stream of Learning) viz. four Vedas, six Vedāṅgas; four Upāṅgas and four Upavedas. These Vidyāsthānas help the readers make them the valued human beings. However, since our university syllabi cover most of these Vidyāsthānas, through these educational feats, students’ journey from grossness to the subtleties begins. Hence, we ensure that students not only become educated individuals but also transform into learned and valued human beings.

We also try to encourage students so as to contribute better parts of their life in societal needs thereby serving the broader human community.

By studying Sanskrit our students know that other than teaching, they can secure jobs in wide array of fields such as Manuscriptolgy and Museology by reading Brahmi scripts and different Inscriptions, and Epigraphy etc. They can also get placements in Project AYUSH e.g. Ayurveda, Yoga, Unani, Siddha, and Homaeopathy thereby showing a novel connect with the medical treatment, Allopathy. In this way the students can achieve the job in this project.

The main priority of our department is to teach Sanskrit language better, so that the students can grasp the nuances of the text on each Vidyāsthāna in higher studies in future. In this way, they will achieve four Purușārthas (Human necessities) – Dharma (Righteousness or Moral Values), Artha (Economic Values), Kāma (Psychological Values) and Mokșa (Self Actualization or Spiritual Values). To achieve these, our students have to read Āyurveda, Upanișads, Gītā, Grammar and different Philosophical treatises etc. in different Semesters.

Besides having a good collection of text and reference materials in the repository of the College Central library catering to the diverse needs of the Sanskrit student, the Department also has a Seminar Library of its own. Students can borrow books according to their needs from there to enhance their subject skills.

The Department also makes different WhatsApp student- teacher groups for each Semester separately for wider communication. These groups help solve the students’ problems by posting various matters.

The teachers are ready to help the students solve University questions after the completion of the syllabus both inside the class and outside.

• Tutorial classes are held for special training in Sanskrit Language.
• Top ranking students deliver lectures on the classroom dais on syllabus-oriented topics.
• Teacher-Student-Guardian Meets are held as per schedule.