VRISHVARDHAN SHARMA — PRESS KIT
vrishvardhan.in/press/   ·   hello@vrishvardhan.in

Everything in this archive may be used in coverage of his work without
seeking permission. Credit "Vrishvardhan Sharma" where a credit line is
required. The biographies below are written to be used as they stand.

------------------------------------------------------------------
FIFTY WORDS
------------------------------------------------------------------
Vrishvardhan Sharma is a nine year old Sanskrit scholar and self taught
developer from India. In March 2026 he took first place in Astadhyayi
Kanthapatha at the 63rd Akhil Bharatiya Shastrotsav, competing against
university students. He has written four free applications and built two
working hardware readers for the texts he has memorised.

------------------------------------------------------------------
A HUNDRED WORDS
------------------------------------------------------------------
Vrishvardhan Sharma is a nine year old Sanskrit scholar, application
developer and hardware builder from India, educated at home. He memorised
the complete Bhagavad Gita at five by self study, and Panini's Astadhyayi,
some four thousand sutras, at eight. In March 2026 he took first place in
Astadhyayi Kanthapatha at the 63rd Akhil Bharatiya Shastrotsav, his third
consecutive year on the national podium, in a competition open to all ages
whose field was aged eighteen to twenty five. He has since written four
free offline applications and built two voice activated hardware readers
by hand. He intends to become a research scientist.

------------------------------------------------------------------
TWO HUNDRED AND FIFTY WORDS
------------------------------------------------------------------
Vrishvardhan Sharma is a nine year old Sanskrit scholar, application
developer and hardware builder from India. He is educated at home, and the
two halves of his day are Sanskrit and science.

He memorised the complete Srimad Bhagavad Gita, all seven hundred verses,
at the age of five, by self study and without being set the task. At eight
he memorised Panini's Astadhyayi, roughly four thousand sutras, with the
grammar and the meaning rather than the sound alone, and the Amarakosa in
all three kandas. He recites Ghana Patha, the most intricate of the Vedic
recitation patterns, including Ghanapathi of Sri Rudram. He has handwritten
the complete Gita in eleven Indian scripts, three separate times, the first
finished at seven, and in June 2026 composed a prashasti of ten Sanskrit
verses of his own.

In March 2026 he took first place in Astadhyayi Kanthapatha at the 63rd
Akhil Bharatiya Shastrotsav at Sri Chandrasekharendra Saraswathi Viswa
Mahavidyalaya, Kanchipuram. It was his third consecutive year on the
national podium, after second places at Ayodhya in 2024 and Haridwar in
2025. Sanskrit competition of this kind is open rather than graded by age;
the field he won was aged eighteen to twenty five.

So that the texts he holds in memory would be reachable by people who do
not, he wrote GitaVardhan, Kannada Vardhan, Tamil Vardhan and Telugu
Vardhan, all free, offline, and carrying no advertising or tracking, and
built two voice activated Gita readers by hand around an ESP32 core,
neither of which connects to a network. He speaks Hindi, English, Sanskrit,
Spanish, Kannada and Marwari, and intends to become a research scientist in
nuclear fusion and space technology.

------------------------------------------------------------------
NATIONAL AND STATE PLACEMENTS
------------------------------------------------------------------
March 2026    First, national   63rd Akhil Bharatiya Shastrotsav,
                                Astadhyayi Kanthapatha. Sri Chandrasekharendra
                                Saraswathi Viswa Mahavidyalaya, Kanchipuram.
March 2025    Second, national  62nd Akhil Bharatiya Shastrotsav, Bhagavad
                                Gita Kanthapatha. Patanjali University, Haridwar.
March 2024    Second, national  61st Akhil Bharatiya Shastriya Spardha,
                                Bhagavad Gita Kanthapatha. Central Sanskrit
                                University, Ayodhya.
January 2026  First, state      Rajasthan, Astadhyayi Kanthapatha. Central
                                Sanskrit University, Jaipur.
January 2024  First, state      Karnataka, Bhagavad Gita Kanthapatha.
                                Karnataka Samskrit University, Bengaluru.

Certificate scans for these are in certificates/ and the full record, with
certificate numbers, is at vrishvardhan.in/achievements/

------------------------------------------------------------------
A NOTE ON NAMING
------------------------------------------------------------------
The name is written Vrishvardhan Sharma, one word. In Devanagari it is
वृषवर्धनः शर्मा. The competition is the Akhil Bharatiya Shastrotsav, held by
Central Sanskrit University. It is open rather than graded by age, which is
the fact that makes the 2026 result what it is, and it is worth stating
plainly rather than in the language of prodigy.
