Brahmavidya
A Mysuru-based institution preserving and teaching Bharatanatyam, Karnāṭaka Saṅgīta, and Indological research through the authentic gurukula tradition.
Fondazione Giorgio Cini
Brahmavidya has entered into a Memorandum of Understanding with the prestigious Fondazione Giorgio Cini for the dissemination of knowledge contained in the Indological manuscripts collection preserved at the Foundation.
This association brings archival materials into a living scholarly context through study, interpretation, teaching, and carefully prepared digital access.
Practice, texts, and transmission
Brahmavidya is dedicated to Musicology and Indology. Its work joins rigorous training in the performing arts with manuscript study, textual interpretation, and the preservation of traditional knowledge.
Saṅgīta and Nāṭya
The institution offers sustained training in Bharatanatyam and Indian classical music to a community of more than one hundred students. Its pedagogy treats theoretical understanding (lakṣaṇa) as essential to refined and authentic performance (lakṣya).
Musicology and Indology
The Upayukta Bhārata gurukula project develops an interdisciplinary curriculum embracing music, dance, yoga, traditional theatre, modern choreography, research, recreation, and contemporisation, supported by books, manuscripts, an instrumentarium, and research equipment.
Śrīvidyā, Tantra, Veda–Vedāṅga
Śrīvidyā,the knowledge that bestows śrī,is approached through its scriptural, ritual, philosophical, and contemplative dimensions. Study extends to Tantra, the Vedas, and the Vedāṅgas within their historical and living traditions.
Teachers and the gurukula
Knowledge is transmitted through close, sustained engagement between teacher and student. Brahmavidya honours its teachers and lineages while providing a disciplined setting in which practice, reflection, and research continually inform one another.
Indological manuscripts
Brahmavidya is building a repository of Indological and Musicological textual treatises. The programme includes identification, cataloguing, digitisation, critical study, and the publication of research articles by resident faculty and visiting scholars. The aim is to preserve primary materials while making them more useful to students, researchers, and readers across languages.
Texts that can be read, searched, and translated
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EyM Sanskrit OCR
Digital tools that assist the recognition and preparation of Sanskrit textual material for scholarship.
Research repository
A developing home for digitised treatises, catalogues, annotated resources, and faculty research.
विद्या ददाति विनयं विनयाद् याति पात्रताम्।
पात्रत्वाद् धनमाप्नोति धनाद् धर्मं ततः सुखम्॥Knowledge gives humility; humility leads to worthiness, and worthy action to enduring well-being.