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The awards of Certificate of Honour and Maharshi Badrayan Vyas Samman are Indian Presidential honours which are conferred on academics by the President of India once a year on the Indian Independence Day, celebrated on 15 August; in recognition of their substantial contribution in the various fields of languages including Arabic, Kannada, Sanskrit, Malayalam, Oriya, Pali, Persian, Prakrit and the Telugu language.
The awards come under the umbrella of the language division of the Ministry of Education's Department of Higher Education. The award takes its name from Bādarāyaṇa, the founder of the Vedanta system of Philosophy, who wrote the Vedāntasūtra k.a. Brahmasūtra.
Introductory years
The Certificate of Honour for Arabic Persian and Sanskrit languages were introduced in 1958 and certificates for Pali and Prakrit were introduced in 1966.
The Maharshi Badrayan Vyas Samman award was introduced in the 2002 for Arabic Persian and Sanskrit and also for Pali and Prakrit languages. Since the year 2016, both the Certificate of Honourand and the Maharshi Badrayan Vyas Samman have been conferred upon scholars of classical Kannada, classical Malayalam, classical Oriya and the classical Telugu language.
Age criteria and content of award
The Certificate of Honour-i is awarded to selected Indian scholars having an age of 60 years or above. It honour includes a certificate, a memento and one time cash of five hundred thousand Indian rupees. The Certificate of Honour-ii is awarded to selected scholars Overseas Indians and foreigners of non-Indian origin, who aged 60 years or above. The award constitutes a certificate, a memento and one time cash of five hundred thousand Indian rupees.
The Maharshi Badrayan Vyas Samman is conferred upon selected young scholars aged between 30 and 45. It constituted a certificate of honour, a memento and a one time cash of one hundred thousand Indian rupees.
For classical Tamil
The awards for classical Tamil is provided by President of India separately every year. First recognised classical language in 2004. Award was introduced in 2005 and is managed by the Central Institute of Classical Tamil, an autonomous institution under the language division of Ministry of Education's Department of Higher Education. These awards have certain distinctions:
Tholkāppiyar Award (equivalent to Certificate of Honour-i)
Kural Peedam Award (equivalent to Certificate of Honour-ii)
Young Scholar Award (equivalent to Maharshi Badrayan Vyas Samman - age limit: 30–40 years)
Recipients
= Certificate of Honour
=2019
Sanskrit
Sripada Satyanarayanamurthy
Rajendra Nath Sarma
Ramji Thakur
Chand Kiran Saluja
ShriKrishan Sharma
V. Ramakrishna Bhatt
Vidwan Janardana Hegde
Kala Acharya
Harekrishna Satapathy
Pandit Satya Dev Sharma
Shri Banwari Lal Gaur
V.S. Karunakaran
Yugal Kishor Mishra
Manudev Bhattacharya
Subuddhi Charan Goswami
Pali
Uma Shankar Vyas
Prakrit
Kamal Chand Sogani
Arabic
Faizanullah Farooqi
Mohammad Iqbal Husain
Mohd. Samiullah Khan
Persian
Iraq Raza Zaidi
Chander Shekhar
Mohammad Sidiq Niazmand
Classical Kannada
Hampa Nagarajaiah
Classical Telugu
Ravva Srihari
Classical Malayalam
C.P. Achuthan Unny
Classical Odia
Antaryami Mishra
Maharshi Badrayan Vyas Samman
= 2012
=Sanskrit
Sampadananda Mishra
Chandra Bhushan Jha
Malihar Arvind Kulkarni
Narayan Dash
Sasibhushan Mishra
Persian
Asad Ali Khurshid
2013
Sanskrit
Balram Shukla
= 2019
=Sanskrit
Ashok Thapliyal
Sujata Tripathi
Sanju Mishra
Abhijit Hanmant Joshi
Sharachchandra Dwivedi
Pali
Ms. Anoma Shriram Sakhare
Prakrit
Ashish Kumar Jain
Arabic
Fauzan Ahmad
Persian
M. Shahbaz Alam
Classical Kannada
G.B. Harisha
S. Karthik
M. Byrappa
Classical Telugu
Addanki Srinivas
V. Triveni
D.K. Prabhakar
Classical Malayalam
Rajeev R.R.
Santhosh Thottingal
Classical Odia
Subrat Kumar Prusty