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World Sanskrit Day, also called Sanskrit Diwas or Vishva Sanskrit Diwas, was observed on Friday, 28 August 2026.
The day is fixed to Shravana Purnima, the full-moon day of the Shravana month, so it shifts each year in the Gregorian calendar.
Official observance in India began in 1969, following notifications issued by the Union Ministry of Education to the Central and State governments.
Shravana Purnima is traditionally associated with Upakarma, the annual renewal of Vedic study, which is why this date was chosen.
Government promotion runs through the National Education Policy 2020, the Central Sanskrit Universities Act, 2020 and schemes such as Shastra Chudamani.
Upgrade Sanskrit higher education
Key: Converted three deemed universities into central universities - the Central Sanskrit University, New Delhi; Shri Lal Bahadur Shastri National Sanskrit University, New Delhi; and the National Sanskrit University, Tirupati
Mainstream classical languages in school and higher education
Key: Encourages Sanskrit teaching at all levels and the development of Sanskrit universities as multidisciplinary institutions
Transmit traditional shastric learning to younger scholars
Key: Appoints eminent retired Sanskrit teachers and scholars in Sanskrit institutions, normally for two years extendable by one, to train students in the different shastras
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The full-moon day of the Shravana month in the Hindu lunar calendar, the date to which World Sanskrit Day is fixed.
The traditional annual ceremony marking the renewal of Vedic study, observed on Shravana Purnima in several communities.
Panini's treatise in eight chapters that systematically describes the grammar of classical Sanskrit.