About us
The city of Kota, on river Chambal, situated in the south east of Rajasthan, is a well known education city of the country. Hailed as the Nalanda of Rajasthan, Kota is a confluence of ancient and modern education streams. The conventional education, committed to ideal acculturation and surpassing refinement, has especially earned recognition in this Hadoti area, comprising the districts of Kota, Bundi, Baran and Jhalawar. Having been ruled by the Hada dynasty for long, this area was called Hadoti with Kota city being the capital of the state of Hadoti.
During the dominion rule, the Vitthalnath Sanskrit Pathshala was established for the promotion and proliferation of the Sanskrit language in 1896 by the first head of the seat of the Vallabha sect in the Mathuradheesh temple. The institution successively graduated to Acharya (PG) College and then it was widely recognised as Shri Vitthalnath Acharya Sanskrit College.
The college was run as an aided institution up to July 8, 1999 after which it was taken over by the state government on July 9, 1999. It is the only Acharya level Sanskrit college of Hadoti catering to the needs of the students of the area and those of the neighbouring state of Madhya Pradesh. Since January 27, 2011, the college has been running in the newly constructed state building at Rawatbhata Road, Tagore Nagar, Kota.
To sum up, this more than a century old only Acharya (PG) level Sanskrit college of Hadoti has been committed to bolstering and blossoming of the oriental studies of Jyotish, Dharma, Darshan and Vangmaya. Abundant books and manuscripts for the researchers are available in the rich and well heeled library of the college. The college provides education for the students at the Shastri level in the classical subjects of Jyotish Ganit/ Phalit, Sanskrit literature, Navya Vyakarana and Jain Darshan (the last two under SFS) and in the modern subjects of English literature, Hindi literature and Political Science, besides the compulsory subjects prescribed by the university. At the Acharya (PG) level, the subjects of Jyotish and Sanskrit literature are available.
Concomitant to establishing the dev vani (language of the gods) Sanskrit as the lok vani (lingua franca), the institution incorporates contemporary ambience too. In accordance to the needs of the modern world, the study in commensurate subjects like Computer Education, Physical Education, Environment Studies is also available to prepare the students as the responsible and enlightened citizens of tomorrow.
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