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Jayoti Vidyapeeth Women's University is a private women's university in India.The state legislature of Rajasthan established the university through the Jayoti Vidyapeeth Women's University Act 2008 (Act No. 17 of 2008) under section 2(f)(12 b) of the UGC Act, 1956.
Salgaonkar completed tenth grade. He had a keen interest in astrology from childhood. He wrote Kalnirnay in 1973, selling over 10 million copies in nine languages. [citation needed] Kalnirnay is a yearly almanac of all religions containing details of auspicious dates, festivals and celebrations of Farsi, Jews, Muslims, Christians, Hindu and others. [2]
The university is named after its founder, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, who was instrumental in introducing the Transcendental Meditation technique to the world. [2] Maharishi Mahesh Yogi Vedic Vishwavidyalaya was established by the Madhya Pradesh state legislature (Act #37) in 1995; the Maharishi has been called the "first chancellor of the university".
It was established on 8 October 1962, and the University Grants Commission, granted the status of a deemed university to the Vidyapeetha in November 1987. [1] In March 2020, the Indian Parliament passed the Central Sanskrit Universities Act, 2020 to upgrade it to central university status, along with two other universities Central Sanskrit University and National Sanskrit University.
Yjnayavalkya Lakshminarayan Vidyapeeth (Sanskrit: ... Math Varanasidas and Chhatranath, started teaching Vedas, Nyaya Shastra and Jyotish Shastra. [7]
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi (born Mahesh Prasad Varma, 12 January 191? [Note 1] – 5 February 2008) was the creator of Transcendental Meditation (TM) and leader of the worldwide organization that has been characterized in multiple ways, including as a new religious movement and as non-religious.
The Jyotish caste comprises individuals who traditionally practiced astrology. According to many sources, these individuals were originally considered part of the Brahmin caste . They were said to have originated from Shakadweepa or Sakaldweep , and hence were referred to as Sakaldweepiya or Shakadweepi Brahmans.
Jyotisha, states Monier-Williams, is rooted in the word Jyotish, which means light, such as that of the sun or the moon or a heavenly body. The term Jyotisha includes the study of astronomy , astrology, and the science of timekeeping using the movements of astronomical bodies.