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The HINDU
Tuesday, Jan 29, 2002
KBA to release 'Samagra Vachana'
By Our Staff Reporter
BANGALORE, JAN. 28. With the help of a special grant of Rs. 20 lakh from the
Department of Kannada and Culture, the Kannada Book Authority (KBA) is all
set to release its ambitious 15-volume compilation of "Samagra
Vachana" here
on Wednesday.
The KBA Chairman, Mallepuram Venkatesh, told presspersons on
Monday that the book was scheduled to be released by the Chief Minister, S.M. Krishna.
The Chief Editor of the book, M.M. Kalburgi, the Minister of State for Kannada Culture,
Rani Satish, and the Chairman of the Kannada Development Authority,
Baragur Ramachandrappa, would participate in the function.
The KBA printed 5,000 copies of the compilation, and it had already received a
print order for 2,800 copies. Each 15-volume set would be sold at the cost price
of Rs. 850, he said. But for the financial assistance extended by the Department
of Kannada and Culture, the KBA would not have been able to implement its ambitious
project. The KBA had a number of important projects in mind, but the funds crunch was
preventing them from being implemented, he said.
Explaining the KBA's achievements in the past six months, Prof. Venkatesh said it had
successfully implemented some of its programmes such as book exhibitions, book festivals
and sales at the district and the taluk level all over the State except the Hyderabad
Karnataka region. It was worth noting that people had purchased Rs. 16 lakh worth of
books published by the KBA. Of the KBA's 183 published titles, 15, including the recently
released prose version of ``Pampa Bharata'', were sold out. The KBA was likely to reprint
"Pampa Bharata" as it was in demand. The authority was also planning to reprint the English
version of three of Kuvempu's plays translated by Prabhushankar, he said.
The KBA would organise a four-day book festival from February 21 to 25 in Gulbarga
city with the focus on youth, he added.
The HINDU
Saturday, Apr 08, 2006
HUBLI: As a step towards preserving religion and disseminating information on religious thinking,
a religious university named "Veerashaiva Vidyapeeth" has been established at Hirekalmath in
Honnali of Davangere district, Chandrashekhar Shivacharya Swamiji, seer of Kashi Peeth, has said.
Addressing presspersons here on Friday, the swamiji, who is the first Vice-Chancellor of the
religious university, said branches of the vidyapeeth would be set up at the village, taluk
and district-level.
The seers of the "Panch Peeth" would be the vice-chancellors of the university by turns for a
period of five years. The seers of various maths in the districts would be made the Registrars
and teachers in those districts would be made the convenors of the examination centres, the
swamiji said. He said examinations would be conducted by the Vidyapeeth on religious subjects.
The process of framing the curriculum had begun and within would be finalised in three months.
Those interested in learning about religion and practising them irrespective of their age can
appear for the examination. Those who pass in the examination will be given certificates and
three best students would be felicitated by the seers of "Panch Peeth," he said.
The swamiji said several Veerashaiva Maths have contributed to the development of education.
But along with that spreading the religious thoughts also is important and so Vidyapeeth has
been established.
He said that the curriculum of for the various examination would be basically the Veerashaiva
tenets in the "Siddhanth Shikhamani" and those propounded by the various Shivasharanas.
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