Shri Jagannath Sanskrit Vishvavidyalaya - Puri

Shri Jagannath Sanskrit University is a Sanskrit university with its campus at Shree Vihar, Puri, and the third of the eighteen Sanskrit universities of India. Its foundation stone was laid on 07.07.1981 by Dr Janaki Ballav Pattanaik, then Chief Minister of Odisha. It is a teaching cum-affiliating university with eight postgraduate departments on the campus, and it has 167 Upashastri (+2) and 138 Shastri (+3) Sanskrit colleges to its credit, 94 of them under permanent affiliation. It has run a Shikshashtri-B.Ed. course for Sanskrit students since the 2012-2013 academic session.