List of Sahitya Akademi Award winners for Sanskrit

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Year	Portrait	Author	Book	Category
1956[4]		P. V. Kane	History of Dharma Sastra, Vol. IV	Research
1961[4]	—	Giridhar Sharma Chaturvedi	Vaidika vijñāna aura bhāratīya saṃskṛti	Research
1963[4]		B. N. Krishnamurti Sharma	History of the Dvaita School of Vedanta and its Literature	Research
1964[4]		Gopinath Kaviraj	Tāṃtrika vāṅmaya meṃ śākta dṛṣṭi	Treatise
1966[4]	—	V. Raghavan	Bhoja's Sringara Prakasa	Aesthetics
1967[4]	—	Ramaroop Pathak	Citrakāvya-kautukam	Poetry
1968[4]		Satyavrat Shastri	śrīgurugovindasiṃhacaritam	Poetry
1970[4]	—	V. Subramanya Sastri	śabdataraṅgiṇī	Treatise on verbal cognition
1973[4]		M. S. Aney	śrītilakayaśonarṇava	Epic
1974[4]	—	Dr. S.B. Warnekar	śrīśivarājyodayam	Epic poem
1977[4]	—	Shanti Bhikshu Shastri	buddhavijayakāvyam	Poetry
1979[4]		K.N. Ezhuthachan	keralodayaḥ	Epic
1980[4]	—	P. C. Devassia	Kristubhagavatam	Epic
1981[4]	—	Jagannath Pathak	kāpiśāyanī	Poetry
1982[4]		P. K. Narayana Pillai	viśvabhānu	Epic
1983[4]		Pandharinathacharya Galagali	śrī śaṃbhuliṃgavijaya caṃpū	Biography
1984[4]	—	Shrinath S. Hasurkar	siṃdhu kanyāḥ	Historical novel
1985[4]	—	Vasant Trimbak Shevde	vindhyavāsinivijayamahākāvyam:	Epic
1986[4]	—	Kalika Prasad Shukla	śrīrādhācaritamahākāvyam	Epic
1987[4]	—	Biswanarayan Shastri	avināśi	Novel
1988[4]	—	Abhiraj Rajendra Mishra	ikṣugaṃdhā	Short stories
1989[4]	—	Ram Karan Sharma	saṃdhyā	Poetry
1990[4]	—	Ogeti Parikshit Sharma	śrīmatpratāparāṇāyanaṃ mahākāvyam	Poetry
1991[4]		Rewa Prasad Dwivedi	svātaṃtryasaṃbhavam	Poetry
1992[4]	—	Hari Narayan Dikshit	bhīṣmacaritam	Epic
1993[4]	—	Jaggu Alwar Iyengar	jayantīkagadyakāvya	Prose Romance
1994[4]	—	Radhavallabh Tripathi	saṃdhānam	Poetry
1995[4]	—	Rasik Vihari Joshi	śrīrādhāpaṃcaśatī	Poetry
1996[4]	—	Keshab Chandra Dash	Isha	Poetry
1997[4]	—	Shyam Dev Parashar	Triveni	Poetry
1998[4]	—	Bachchoolal Awasthi	Pratanini	Poetry
1999[4]	—	Srinivas Rath	Tadeva Gaganam Saivadhara	Poetry
2000[4]	—	S. Srinivasa Sarma	Jagadguru Sri Chandrasekharendra - Saraswati Vijayam	Poetry
2001[4]		Pullella Sriramachandrudu	Ko Vai Rasah	Essays
2002[4]	—	Kashinath Mishra	Harsacarita-Manjari	Poetry
2003[4]	—	Bhaskaracharya Tripathi	Nirjharini	Poetry
2004[4]		Devarshi Kalanath Shastry	Akhyana Vallari	Fiction
2005[4]		Swami Rambhadracharya	Sribhargavaraghaviyam	Epic
2006[4]		Harshadev Madhav	Tava Sparshe Sparshe	Poetry
2007[4]	—	Hari Dutt Sharma	Lasallatika	Poetry
2008	—	Om Prakash Pandey[5]	Rasapriya-Vibhavanam	Poetry
2009	—	Prashasya Mitra Shastri[6]	Anabheepsitam	Short stories
2010		Mithila Prasad Tripathi[7][8][9]	Bharqviyam	Poetry
2011	—	Harekrishna Satapathy[10][11]	Bharatayanam	Poetry
2012		Ramji Thakur[12]	Laghupadyahprabandhatrayi	Poetry
2013	—	Radhakant Thakur[13]	Chaladuravani	Poetry
2015	—	Ram Shankar Awasthi	Vanadevi	Epic
2016	—	Sitanath Acharya[14]	Kavyanirjhari	Poetry
2017	—	Niranjan Mishra[15][16]	Gangaputravadanam	Poetry
2018		Rama Kant Shukla[17]	Mama Janani	Poetry
2019[4]		Madhusudan Penna	Prajnachakshusham	Poetry
2020[4]		Mahesh Chandra Sharma Gautam[18]	Vaishali	Novel
2021[4]	—	Vindeshwariprasad Mishra 'Vinay'[19]	Srijati Shankhnadam Kil, Kavita	Poetry
2022[4]	—	Janardan Prasad Pandey ‘Mani’[1]	Deepmanikyam	Poetry
2023[4]	—	Arun Ranjan Mishra	Shunye Meghaganam	Poetry
2024	—	Dipak Kumar Sharma[20]	Bhaskaracaritam	Poetry
2025		Mahamahopadhyaya Sadhu Bhadreshdas [21][22]	Prasthanacatustaye Brahmaghosah	Poetry

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(No Awards in 1955, 1957, 1958, 1959, 1960, 1962, 1965, 1969, 1971, 1972, 1975, 1976, 1978 and 2014.^[4])

The Sahitya Akademi also awards a "Bal Sahitya Puraskar", for children's literature. Winners of this award for Sanskrit include:

Books published by an author of the age of 35 and below.

The Sahitya Akademi introduced the Bhasha Samman in 1996 to honor writers, scholars, and translators who have significantly contributed to unrecognized languages in India. It also acknowledges work in classical and medieval literature. Recipients receive a plaque and a monetary prize of ₹1,00,000.^[36]

Following is the list of recipients of Sahitya Akademi translation prizes for their works written in Sanskrit. The award, as of 2019, consisted of ₹50,000.^[38]