Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao announced the establishment of the university, which was recently named after Mallinatha Suri
Posted on – Thu, 18 May 23 at 07:18pm
TSCHE Chairman Prof. R Limbadri, Sanskrit Faculty Dean Prof. Neelakantam, Collector Rajarshi Shah, MLA C Madan Reddy were visiting the site at Kulcharam, Medak district on Wednesday.
McDuck: The village of Kulcharam, the birthplace of 14th-century Sanskrit poet and commentator Kolachala Mallinatha Suri, is located in Medak distinct and will be home to the state’s first Sanskrit-language university.
Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao announced the establishment of the university, which was recently named after Mallinatha Suri. The Chief Minister also formed a three-member committee, appointing Naveen Mittal as its chairman, and appointed Ramtek Kavikulaguru Kalidas Sanskrit University Vice Chancellor Prof Penna Madhusudhan and Telangana Sanskrit College Dean Prof K Neelakantam as members.
As part of identifying land suitable for establishing the university, two members of the committee visited with Telangana State Council of Higher Education (TSCHE) Chairman Prof R Limbadri, Vice-Chairman Prof Venkataramana, Collector Rajarshi Shah and Narsapur MLA C Madan Reddy Kulcharam on Wednesday. The collector presented the committee with two sites, 30 and 27 acres in size. Since the land is very close to the road, the visiting team members expressed their satisfaction. The team is expected to submit a report on the visit to the state government within days.
The state government plans to offer initially three Sanskrit courses in the first year – diploma, degree and postgraduate. Even though Kulcharam is the birthplace of Mallinatha Suri, neither the village nor the writer was recognized until the Telangana government brought forward the decision to establish a university in Kulcharam.
MLA Madan Reddy said it was a great honor for the people of the Medak area that the Chief Minister had decided to establish a university in the name of Mallinatha Suri.
Mallinatha Suri was born in what is now the village of Kulcharam, then known as Kolichelma, a few kilometers from the Hyderabad-Medak road. Suri was born in 1346 AD and died in 1440 AD at the age of 96. According to inscriptions found, he was patronized by Rachakonda King Singa Bhupala, who venerated the Sanskrit writer as Mahamahopadhya for his commentary on Kalidasa’s writings.
The remains of the house where Mallinatha Suri lived nearly 700 years ago are still in Kulcharam. The land was bought by the state government from Suri’s descendants in 1981 to open a Vedic school in the village. However, so far, nothing has materialized. A statue of Su Rui carved in 1981 remained idle until 2012. In 2012, the villagers finally placed it in the newly built library in the village.
