This course is considered equivalent to the Intermediate education and those passing out are directly eligible for undergraduate course. Vedas are taught alongside modern education, with subjects like mathematics, science and computers etc., in the seven-year “Veda Vibhushan” course. The school is affiliated to ujjain based Maharshi Sandipani Rashtriya Veda Vidya Pratishtan, which functions under the Union Ministry of Human Resources Development. Sadly enough, 98 of the 100 branches (Shakas) of Atharva Veda have been lost and only Shownik and Pippala shakas are practiced, that too in some pockets of Odisha and Gujarat. Sridhar Acharya, founder president of Navajeevan group of Charitable Institutions told The Hindu. It is this alarming situation that propelled the idea of starting an exclusive Patasala, “K.
There are just around 10 qualified scholars and 100 – 120 learners of Atharva Veda in India, in sharp contrast to the thousands available for the other three. While most such Patasalas teach Rigveda, Yajurveda, Samarveda too, Navajeevan Atharvana Veda Patasala in Tiruchanur is determined to make a difference by taking up only Atharva Veda, which is learnt or taught only by a handful in the entire country. Here is a Veda Patasala that deals exclusively with “Atharva Veda”, the most endangered of all the four Vedas. There are very few scholars who can teach this veda in the country at present.
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