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The awards of Certificate of Honour and Maharshi Badrayan Vyas Samman are Indian Presidential honours which are conferred on academics by the President of India once a year on the Indian Independence Day, celebrated on 15 August; in recognition of their substantial contribution in the various fields of languages including Arabic, Kannada, Sanskrit, Malayalam, Oriya, Pali, Persian, Prakrit and the Telugu language.
The awards come under the umbrella of the language division of the Ministry of Education's Department of Higher Education. The award takes its name from Bādarāyaṇa, the founder of the Vedanta system of Philosophy, who wrote the Vedāntasūtra k.a. Brahmasūtra.