{"id":14784,"date":"2025-07-10T04:40:21","date_gmt":"2025-07-10T04:40:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.pgihs.ac.lk\/?page_id=14784"},"modified":"2025-07-10T04:42:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-10T04:42:09","slug":"postgraduate-diploma-in-sanskrit-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/web.pgihs.ac.lk\/index.php\/postgraduate-diploma-in-sanskrit-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Postgraduate Diploma in Sanskrit"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"14784\" class=\"elementor elementor-14784\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-df6c722 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"df6c722\" data-element_type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-76462e6 elementor-widget__width-initial elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"76462e6\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<style>\/*! elementor - v3.22.0 - 26-06-2024 *\/\n.elementor-widget-text-editor.elementor-drop-cap-view-stacked .elementor-drop-cap{background-color:#69727d;color:#fff}.elementor-widget-text-editor.elementor-drop-cap-view-framed .elementor-drop-cap{color:#69727d;border:3px solid;background-color:transparent}.elementor-widget-text-editor:not(.elementor-drop-cap-view-default) .elementor-drop-cap{margin-top:8px}.elementor-widget-text-editor:not(.elementor-drop-cap-view-default) .elementor-drop-cap-letter{width:1em;height:1em}.elementor-widget-text-editor .elementor-drop-cap{float:left;text-align:center;line-height:1;font-size:50px}.elementor-widget-text-editor .elementor-drop-cap-letter{display:inline-block}<\/style>\t\t\t\t<p>The Postgraduate Diploma in Sanskrit is designed to provide foundation knowledge in Sanskrit for those who have interests in pursuing higher studies in Sanskrit language and literature. The aims of the programme are: to provide a general knowledge in Sanskrit literature from Vedic to the modern classical period, to develop the ability to read, understand and appreciate Sanskrit prose and poetical works while being familiar with Sanskrit dramatic and rhetoric theories, to provide opportunities to learn classical Sanskrit grammar which will enable them to translate from and to Sanskrit and to write short essays in Sanskrit.<\/p><p>Courses offered:<\/p><table width=\"612\"><tbody><tr><td width=\"97\"><p><strong>Course Code\u00a0 <\/strong><\/p><\/td><td width=\"371\"><p><strong>Course Title <\/strong><\/p><\/td><td width=\"66\"><p><strong>Credits <\/strong><\/p><\/td><td width=\"78\"><p><strong>Status\u00a0 <\/strong><\/p><\/td><\/tr><tr><td width=\"97\"><p>SKT 501<\/p><\/td><td width=\"371\"><p>Sanskrit Poetry I<\/p><\/td><td width=\"66\"><p>3<\/p><\/td><td width=\"78\"><p>C<\/p><\/td><\/tr><tr><td width=\"97\"><p>SKT 502<\/p><\/td><td width=\"371\"><p>Sanskr<strong>i<\/strong>t Drama and Dramaturgy<\/p><\/td><td width=\"66\"><p>3<\/p><\/td><td width=\"78\"><p>C<\/p><\/td><\/tr><tr><td width=\"97\"><p>SKT 503<\/p><\/td><td width=\"371\"><p>Sanskrit Rhetorics<\/p><\/td><td width=\"66\"><p>3<\/p><\/td><td width=\"78\"><p>C<\/p><\/td><\/tr><tr><td width=\"97\"><p>SKT 504<\/p><\/td><td width=\"371\"><p>Sanskrit Grammar<\/p><\/td><td width=\"66\"><p>3<\/p><\/td><td width=\"78\"><p>C<\/p><\/td><\/tr><tr><td width=\"97\"><p>SKT 505\u00a0<\/p><\/td><td width=\"371\"><p>Sanskrit Prose<\/p><\/td><td width=\"66\"><p>3<\/p><\/td><td width=\"78\"><p>C<\/p><\/td><\/tr><tr><td width=\"97\"><p>SKT 506<\/p><\/td><td width=\"371\"><p>Translation and Composition<\/p><\/td><td width=\"66\"><p>3<\/p><\/td><td width=\"78\"><p>C<\/p><\/td><\/tr><tr><td width=\"97\"><p>SKT 507\u00a0<\/p><\/td><td width=\"371\"><p>Sanskrit Poetry II<\/p><\/td><td width=\"66\"><p>3<\/p><\/td><td width=\"78\"><p>C<\/p><\/td><\/tr><tr><td width=\"97\"><p>SKT 508<\/p><\/td><td width=\"371\"><p>History of Sanskrit Literature<\/p><\/td><td width=\"66\"><p>3<\/p><\/td><td width=\"78\"><p>C<\/p><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><p>Apart from the above courses, students are required to complete courses equivalent to 6 credits from other disciplines. 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