The US-based academician Robert P Goldman who translated epic Valmiki Ramayan into English and noted indologist George Cardona were today given certificates of honour by President Pranab Mukherjee for their contribution to Sanskrit at a function here today.
Goldman and Cardona were among 57 proponents of Sanskrit, Pali/Prakrit, Arabic and Persian who were conferred certificates of honour and 'Maharishi Badrayan Vyas Samman to young scholars' for the years 2012 and 2013 by the President at a function at Rashtrapati Bhavan here today.
The recipient of certificates of honour for 2012 for Sanskrit included Sadguru Krishnayaji, Krishnanand Jha, Manisha Pathak, Ravindra Kumar Nagar, Ambaram Manishankar Joshi, Rameshwar Dutt Sharma, Harish Chandra Renapurkar, K Chandra Sekharan Nair, Chande Pankaj Trimbak, Pandit Gobinda Chandra Mishra, Swami Nigambodh Teerth (Radhakrishna), Pushkar Dutt Sharma, Pazhaveri Chakravarthy Satakopachariar, Sudhanshushekhar Shastri and Jaidev Vedalankar.
Professor emeritus of linguistics at the University of Pennsylvania, Cardona was conferred certificate of honour for 2012 for his scholarly work Sanskrit grammar and contribution to the research in the ancient language.
The certificate of honour for the year 2013 was conferred on Goldman who translated epic poem Valmiki Ramayan into English in a massive project involving American and Canadian scholars.
Certificates of honour for the year 2012 in Persian were conferred on to Hafiz Abdul Mannan, Hafiz Shah Taqi Anwar, Khan Mohammad Atif while for Arabic the recipient included Maulana Mufti Hakim Ahmad Hasan Khan, Sayed Kafeel Ahmad Qasmi and Shams Tabrez Khan.
Sudarshan Lal Jain was recipient of certificate for Pali/Prakrit.
