布朗经典系提供博士学位。梵文语言和文学专业，古典文学和梵文博士学位。这条轨道可以让感兴趣的古典主义者将梵文成分添加到他们的博士学位中。梵文课程完全专注于梵文语言及其文学，但其基本的哲学和学术方法与希腊和罗马经典中的该课程相同。在严格研究梵语的基础上，对文本进行了广泛的文化和历史语境的考察和解释。布朗大学从事梵文的研究和教学已有一个多世纪的历史，目前由印度古代宗教，文学和哲学学者James L. Fitzgerald领导，Purandara Das梵文经典教授。梵文文学，印度哲学和法学语法分析学派的学者大卫
The Classics Department of Brown offers a Ph.D. track in Sanskrit Language and Literature and a Classics and Sanskrit Ph.D. track that allows interested classicists to add a Sanskrit component to their Ph.D. The Sanskrit program is focused entirely upon the Sanskrit language and its literatures, but its fundamental philosophy and approach to scholarship is the same as that of the program in Greek and Roman classics. Texts are examined and interpreted within their broad cultural and historical context on the basis of a rigorous preparation in the study of the Sanskrit language. Brown University has engaged in the study and teaching of Sanskrit for over a century and is currently under the leadership of the Purandara Das Professor of Sanskrit in Classics, James L. Fitzgerald, a scholar of ancient Indian religions, literatures, and philosophies. He is joined by Lecturer David Buchta, a scholar of Sanskrit literature, Indian philosophy, and the Pinian tradition of grammatical analysis.