Sārasvati Susamā established in 1942 and published quarterly, the Sārasvati Susamā has long been considered the premier journal of Sanskrit

Sanskrit

Sanskrit , is a historical Indo-Aryan language and the primary liturgical language of Hinduism, Jainism and Buddhism.Buddhism: besides Pali, see Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit Today, it is listed as one of the 22 scheduled languages of India and is an official language of the state of Uttarakhand...

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Origin

Sārasvati Susamā was initially published from Government Sanskrit College, Benares

Varanasi

-Etymology:The name Varanasi has its origin possibly from the names of the two rivers Varuna and Assi, for the old city lies in the north shores of the Ganga bounded by its two tributaries, the Varuna and the Asi, with the Ganges being to its south...

 in 1942. The editors were:

• Dr. Mangal Dev Shastri
• Tribhuvan Prasad Upadhyay
• Kubernath Shukla

Reputation

During 1958, this college merged into Sampurnanand Sanskrit University

Sampurnanand Sanskrit University

Sampurnanand Sanskrit University is an institution of higher learning in Asian learning, Sanskrit allied areas, etc. that is located in Benares , Uttar Pradesh, India.- History :...

. Thereafter this journal was published by the Director, Research Institute, Sampurnanand Sanskrit University, Varanasi, India..

Editors

From 1957 editors of the journal are

S.No.	Name of Editor	Period	No. of Years
1.	Kshetresa Chandra Chattopadhyaya Kshetresa Chandra Chattopadhyaya Kshetresa Chandra Chattopadhyaya was a distinguished scholar of Sanskrit from India. A scholar of Sanskrit, Veda, grammar, Pali, Prakrit and philology, he was born on October 27, 1896 in village Nimta of North 24 Parganas in what was then Bengal. He came from an illustrious family of Kulina...	1957-1965	8
2.	Baldev Upadhyaya Baldev Upadhyaya Pandit Baldev Upadhyaya was a renowned Hindi, Sanskrit scholar, literary historian, essayist and critic. He penned numerous books, collections of essays and a historical outline of Sanskrit literature. He is noted for discussing Sanskrit literature in the Hindi language...	1966-1968	2
3.	Badarinath Shukla	1968-1970	2
4.	Dr. B.P.T. Vagish Shastri Vagish Shastri Vagish Shastri is an international Sanskrit grammarian, eminent linguist, Tantric and yogi. He was born in the city of Khurai, in Madhya Pradesh in 1934. His primary education was in Khurai, followed by his education in Vrindavan and Benaras...	1970-1996	26
5.	Dr. Adya Prasad Mishra	1996-1997	1
6.	Dr. Shrikant Pandey	1997-1998	1
7.	Dr. Rahas Bihari Dwevedi	1999-2000	1
8.	Dr. Rajaram Shukla	2001 onwards till date	6

Nature of Publication

Sārasvati Susamā publishes articles on the following topics..

• Research articles on oriental learnings.
• Research articles on Pali
  Páli
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  , Prakrit
  Prakrit
  Prakrit is the name for a group of Middle Indic, Indo-Aryan languages, derived from Old Indic dialects. The word itself has a flexible definition, being defined sometimes as, "original, natural, artless, normal, ordinary, usual", or "vernacular", in contrast to the literary and religious...
  
  , Apabhramsa and Culture
  Culture
  Culture is a term that has many different inter-related meanings. For example, in 1952, Alfred Kroeber and Clyde Kluckhohn compiled a list of 164 definitions of "culture" in Culture: A Critical Review of Concepts and Definitions...
  
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• Unpublished small manuscripts edited by scholars.
• Criticism of the books.
• Continuation work on Purana Index.
• Other treaties.