Vytis Vidūnas

Vytis Vidūnas is a lecturer in Sanskrit at Vilnius University, Lithuania. He studied classical philology at Vilnius University and Sanskrit the Vedic Language and Ancient Indian Literature at the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow. In 1993, he co-founded the Center of Oriental Studies at Vilnius University thus reviving Sanskrit studies at the University and in Lithuania in general. He also founded Hindi Studies and Indian Studies at Vilnius University, started a public initiative “Sanskrit of the Rivers,” and published Sanskrit-Lithuanian Etymological Dictionary (2016). In 2023, he was nominated for the Lithuanian-Indian Forum award “For the Merit to the Friendship between Lithuania and India.”