Goa Universitywill soon offer a master’s degree in , vice-chancellor Harilal Menon said. He said that any graduate will be able to pursue this MA, provided they studied Sanskrit in school and have basic knowledge of the language.
The programme will be offered by the university’s School of Sanskrit and Indic Knowledge Systems, and Menon said that plans are also afoot to introduce a postgraduate programme in ayurveda. GU has already begun the process to recruit faculty for the MA in Sanskrit, and added that Sanskrit and ayurveda are complementary fields.
Goa already has an All India Institute of Ayurveda, recently established at Dhargalim in Pernem, and the programmes in Sanskrit and ayurveda at GU are expected to help boost mutual research.