Law Kumar Mishra
Patna, March 17
World’s first Ramayan University, 50 kms north from here, will start academic session from July.
The Ramayan University has been set up under the provisions of the Bihar private universities Act,2013, according to Kishore Kunal, Secretary of the Mahabir Mandir Trust.
Kunal said on Thursday that the temple trust deposited Rs 10.50 lakh before the Principal Secretary of Education Department on Tuesday as caution money and submitted documents to suggest 25 bighas (12.5 acres) of land at Konhara Ghat Mutt for the university. According to Kunal, the university will have five years course on Ramayan and six months courses on Upnishaads and Vedas and Gita.
Syllabus would include astrophysics, astrology, astronomy, Hindu mythology.
Students will learn teachings of Tamil Ramayan by Kamb, Marathi Ramayan by Sant Eknath and Valmiki Ramayan.
Ramayan manuscripts in Thailand, Indonesia and Malaysia would also be parts of the syllabus with Valmiki Ramayan as main foundation course.
Kunal said the university would function as the advanced centre of research on Ramayan and allied subjects and campus will have IT and wifi facilities.
Mahabir Mandir trust us constructing world’s tallest Ram temple at Kesariya in East Champaran district on 110 acres land. It will be larger than the Angkor Wat temple of Cambodia.Kunal said Rs 500 crores is being spent on construction of the temple.
Kunal, a 1972 batch IPS who had taken VRS right years before his scheduled date of retirement was engaged as special officer on Ayodhya and had written 880-page book Ayodhya Revisited during the trial on dispute in Supreme court.
Mahabir Mandir trust runs heart hospital, cancer hospital, children hospital and general hospital at different parts of Patna.
