Following in the steps of the ancient Gurukul tradition, Varanasi-based Panini Kanya Mahavidyalaya is a unique institution that instructs girls in the Vedas, Vedangas, Sanskrit grammar and Indian philosophy. Besides teaching them regular subjects like English and Mathematics, the Vidyalaya imparts to the girls a high-level learning classical music. Led by Acharya Nandita Shastri Chaturvedi, the students – T Janhavi, Dharmavati Arya, Mahima Shastri, Sanjeevani Anand, P Saujanya, Kasturi Arya, Priyanka Bharati and Pratibha Shastri – will present selected suktas and mantras from the four Vedas:

a) Ghanpatha of the mantras of Shraddha sukta, Rig Veda, in the Dakshinatya style
b) Swasti mantras of the Yajur Veda in the North Indian style
c) Rkpatha and Samagana from Sama Veda in the Samagayan tradition
d) Ghanpatha of the Shanti Sukta in the Atharva Veda style