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‘Bhagavatham’, a treasure trove of knowledge
-Photo: K.V. Poornachandra Kumar
For culture: Sadguru Kandukuri Sivananda Murty delivering a lecture at the conference on ‘Srimad Bhagavatam’ in Tirupati on Saturday. SVU V-CN. Prabhakara Rao and Shanta Biotech Managing Director K.I.Varaprasad Reddy are also seen.
Sri Venkateswara University’s Oriental Research Institute conducted an international conference on ‘Srimad Bhagavatam’ last week, in association with Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanams and Hyderabad-based Shanta Biotech. The objective of the three-day event was to promote ‘Bhagavatham’ as a feast for literary lovers and a treasure trove of knowledge for information seekers and holding the essence of ‘Bhakti’ for the spiritual-minded, i
rrespective of rich or poor, educated or illiterate.
Visakhapatnam-based spiritualist and orator, Sadguru Kandukuri Sivananda Murty, who took part in the inaugural session, saw ‘Bhagavatham’ not as a mere religious script, but a guide that transcends all barriers to unravel the mysteries behind the concept of creation. He called upon the scientists to browse through the epic to study the solar system, the formation of time measures like solar year and lunar year etc. Shanta Biotech Managing Director K.I. Varaprasad Reddy and Vice-Chancellors N. Prabhakara Rao (SVU) and Hare Krishna Satapathy (Rashtriya Sanskrit Vidyapeetha) were among the speakers. ORI Director V.Venkatramana Reddy explained the essence of the meet.
Seventy five papers were presented on the second day of the meet, where the technical sessions were held simultaneously at five places. Academicians Dr.Ananta Padmanabha Rao, V.V.Subrahmanya Sarma, Ratnakaram Balaraju, Govindaswamy Naidu, Harihara Sarma, Sampath Kumaracharya and Thummapudi Koteswara Rao presided the various sessions, where the intricacies in both Telugu and Sanskrit versions of ‘Bhagavatham’ were discussed.
The meet concluded that ‘Bhagavatham’ is all about the life of Sri Krishna, one of the ten incarnations of Lord Vishnu.
Peta Srinivasulu Reddy, Dean (Media) at SVU spoke on ‘Sri Krishna in Indian folklore’ where he spoke on how the verses in ‘Bhagavatham’ gave rise to literary snippets, adages and sayings.
In the valedictory session, SVU Rector K.Ratnaiah explained the glory of ‘Pothana Bhagavatham’, while Professors P.Narasimha Reddy, Rama Suryanarayana (RSVP), Lalitha Kumari, Kasireddy Venkat Reddy and others spoke on how physical, geological, scientific and other modern sciences had a reference in ‘Bhagavatam’.
AD Rangarajan,
in Tirupati
UoH
The University of Hyderabad (UoH) signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Westfaliche Wilhelms-Universitat (WWU) Munster, Germany to collaborate in academic activities and towards internationalisation of higher education.
According to a press note, the collaboration includes exchange of faculty members, students, publications and joint research programmes. In line with this MoU, UoH and WWU will establish the first Indo-German International Research Training Group (Graduate School) in the area of Molecular and Cellular GlycoSciences (MCGS).
D.V.L.PADMA PRIYA,
in Hyderabad
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