Samskrita School – Shri Mahaganapati Samskrita Pathashala

 

 

  • The Academy is operating a Samkrita School named Shri Mahaganapati Samskrita Pathashala, Hegde (“Pathashala”) which enables pupils to enroll for a Samskrita School to pursue their education in the line of Veda & Samskrita.
  • The said pathashala is conducting classes for Samskrita Prathama Class as approved by the Directorate of Samskrita Education of Karnataka Samskrita University, Bengaluru.
  • The students of Pathashala are appearing for the yearly exam conducted for Samskrita Prathama by Directorate of Samksrita Education and producing good results.
  • The Society was renamed as “Veda Samskrita Academy” from “Veda Samskrita Prasaranee Sabha” at its special meeting of the society held on 3rd January, 2011 vide passing unanimous resolution to that effect.
  • The Academy represents through its Directors in various conferences and seminars to accelerate the knowledge of Samskrita around the globe. Dr. Gopalkrishna Hegde, Director of the Academy had been the Chairman of International Samskrita Conference on the subject of Shodhasatra of Jyotisha Shastra held at Vijnana Bhavan at New Dehli on 23rd and 24th August, 2013.

· Peer-Reviewed Research Journal (Accredited with ISSN)

  • The Academy is accredited with National Institute of Science and Information Resource (“NISCAIR”), New Dehli, through issuance of International Standard Serial Number (“ISSN”) number in the year 2011. The Trust publishes Journal of Veda Samskrita Academy (“Journal”) since year 2013 which consists of Research Papers of Research Scholars of various Universities.
  • University Grant Commission (“UGC”) in the year 2009 has enumerated under its rules that the Ph.D. Research Scholars shall ensure that their Article related to the research to be published in a Research Journal (accredited with ISSN) before the final submission of the papers to the Universities.

·Iinformation regarding our Journal :

  • Name of our Journal is “Journal of Veda Samskrita Academy” and registered under Indian National Centre for ISSN, C/O NISCAIR in 2011.
  • The Journal has its own website. Its details are as follows : www.vedasamskritaacademy.org
  • This website is being used as mentioned in https. This website is not a copy of anyother website. It is independent.

Aims and Scope:

  • One of the Aims of the Journal, is to encourage researchers, scholars and teachers to publish the results of their research in the form of a research paper in Samskrita / English / Hindi / Kannada. Accordingly, contributions from scholars working in different fields like Samskrita Language and linguistics, Language and literature, Indian Philosphy, all branchs of Vedas, Vedangas, Darshanas, Scientific Literature in Samskrita, Creative writings, Commentaries, Bookreviews, Ayurveda, Art and Architecture, Modern Samskrita Literature and Shiksha Shastras (Education) and so-on are highly appreciated. However, good and original but brief creative writing in Samskrita in the form of poetry, prose, stories etc. would also get equal importance. Regular issue of the Journal will contain research papers and small literary articles, book reviews, discussions and comments on research publications.
  • The Academy would also invite high standard research papers from wellknown eminent scholars. Other research papers submitted by research scholars are reviewed and refereed by eminent scholars / experts of the Editorial team. Only research papers reviewed by referees will be finally accepted for publication.
  • This paper is specially prepared for research students. In this case, teaching and non-teaching staff employed in colleges and universities are also beneficial.
  • It is no mistake that research papers like this are very rare especially in Karnataka.

ISSN:

This Journal has ISSN number.It is 2250-1711, In this regard, We have attached the copy of the proposal sent by us to Niscare in 2011 and the copy of the order for allotment of ISSN number to us.

Publishing Schedule:

  • The Journal will be published twice a year. Its period is January to June, July to December. This will be announced on our website usually in April and October.
  • The fact that interested parties can submit articles within this period is paramount. Articles not submitted within this period will not be eligible for publication.
  • It is planned to publish the articles dedicated to the seminars on special occasions with their consent.
  • It also plans to bring out a special volume on the merits of distinguished dignitaries who have rendered special service to the Vedas or Sanskrit or Indian culture.
  • A volume of soft copy is usually taken out near the Academy. But Academy is not responsible for any loss due to virus attack or other reasons. There will be a system of keeping it as safe as possible.

Copyright :

  • The full copyright of the articles published in this journal belongs to Academy, especially the Editor in Chief of the academy. But when the articles are published, the related responsibility lies with the author. Neither the academy nor the director nor the advisory board is responsible for it. Articles should not contain content that abuses any caste or demeans any caste or is controversial. The subjects should be within the criteria contained in the paper.

Peer-Review :

  • Contributors must submit articles as per our above rules. Word file and PDF file thus both files have to be submitted within the stipulated time.
  • Article should not exceed 5 pages in A4 size. Font may be 11 or 12. There should be 1.5 line alignment.
  • Sanskrit or Hindi articles should be in Unicode. It is good to have Sanskit 2003 font or Mangala font.
  • English articles would be better if they were in Times New Roman font. It is good to have Kannada articles in Nudi software.
  • After the articles are received by the Editor-in-Chief, they are first proposed to the Advisory Board for approval.
  • Then set in our format, its hard copy will be sent to the author for correction. They have to send hard copy back to the academy within the stipulated period.
  • Those articles are then sent to subject matter experts who are not members of the advisory board. They will check it and forward the report to the Academy with their opinion.
  • Contributors’ names will be kept confidential when sending articles to subject matter experts who are not members of the Advisory Board.
  • Then there is a system of issuing acceptance letters to the authors if they wish.
  • Decisions to publish or not to publish articles are taken by the Editor-in-Chief. There is no room for arguments in this matter.
  • The decision of the Editor-in-Chief will be final. Authors have to accept this.
  • There is no room for raga-dveshadis here. The Editor-in-Chief does not take extra judicial decisions.
  • Since inception till now there is no complaint from any reader.
  • Articles should not be plagiarized. Must be their own. You can use snippets of other people’s articles in your own articles. In such a case the name of the author, year of publication etc. should be mentioned. There may be put notes at the end of articles.
  • Contributors must mention their place of employment, contact number and e-mail address and address of their original positions. This is very necessary.
  • Research students are required to mention the name of their mentor and the topic sanctioned by the universities.

 

Ownership and Management :

  • This Journal is officially registered as Veda Sanskita Academy functioning under the NGO. The academy has separate management.
  • The day-to-day operations are managed by the director.
  • Every year the financial affairs are officially audited. The relevant documents will be submitted to the office of the concerned Registrar of Societies and a letter of recognition will be received from them.

 

Advisory Board:

  • There is a separate advisory board for this journal. It has subject wise members. All of them are great achievers in their fields.
  • The list of Advisory Board members is published in every journal. Apart from that, the introduction of the members of the advisory board has been given separately.

Editorial Team:

  • The journal mainly has one main Editor. He himself is mentioned as the editor-in-chief.
  • Most of the time the members of the advisory board are members of the editorial team.

 

Author Fees:

  • At present, 1500 Rs. will be collected separately fromauthors as journal processing charge. This includes postal charges, printing charges etc.
  • When the author sends handwritten articles rather than typed articles, the typing charge for that article will be collected by the author himself.
  • Journal processing charge will be revised from time to time. The decision is taken by the editor-in-chief of the journal.
  • A copy will be sent free of charge by registered post after publication of the book to authors who have paid the journal processing charge.
  • Those who want an extra copy will be able to send them the requested quantity if they pay the cost and postage charges to the Academy.

 

Other Revenue:

  • Our journal does not have any other sources of revenue. The cost will be maintained in journal processing charges paid by the authors.
  • There is no subscription to the journal. Anyone who can help this paper in any way will be gratefully received.
  • Journal processing charge has to be credited to our academy account. Whatever it is, it should be through a bank account. It is the overall opinion of the Academy that the financial system should be transparent.