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B) Foundation of Prakrit Bhavan Building. The main building of National
Institute of Prakrit Studies and Research constructed with the financial support of the Govt. of Karnataka and Shrutakevali Education Trust, Shravanabelagola. Dr. Shankar Dayal Sharma, the then President of India, inaugurated the 'Prakrit Bhavan' and the institution NIPSAR in 1993. The text of the foundation stone is as under.
C) Aims and objectives :
It shall be the aim of the Institute to open in Shravanabelagola and other places schools and colleges, institutions for imparting technical education, cultural education and agricultural education, training centers, colleges in medicine, development of technology institutes for development of Prakrit, Apabhramsa, Sanskrit, Kannada and other Indian languages and literature shall also be opened measures for the Social, Literary, economic and religious improvement shall also be undertaken through appropriate schools and colleges, University. Any Institution originally started for the development of such things and now become sick for any reason and are not run properly shall be taken over by the Institute. The Institute is solely a research and educational Institution dedicated to the study of Prakrit and Jainological studies and to cultivate and practice high ideals of Nonviolence, Truth, Anekanth, Peaceful, Coexistence and Non-attachment for the welfare of humanity on Universal level.
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