[INDOLOGY] Announcement of New Publication

Shrikant Bahulkar shrikant.bahulkar at gmail.com
Sat Jul 11 16:57:07 UTC 2026


Thanks, Lauren, for your quick and positive response.

On Sat, 11 Jul 2026 at 22:14, Lauren Bausch <lauren.bausch at drbu.edu> wrote:

> Dear Prof. Bahulkar,
>
> Congratulations on your new book! I am very happy to receive this
> publication announcement and look forward to seeing the book in print.
> Prof. Hahn would be very happy.
>
> maitrīcittena,
> Lauren
>
> Lauren Bausch
> Professor
> Dharma Realm Buddhist University
>
> *sarveṣām eva śarma bhavānīti* | *Gopathabrāhmaṇa* 1.1.28
>
>
> On Sat, Jul 11, 2026 at 9:31 AM Shrikant Bahulkar via INDOLOGY <
> indology at list.indology.info> wrote:
>
>> Dear list members,
>>
>> We are delighted to announce the publication of the first complete
>> English translation of Jñānaśrimitra’s Vṛttamālāstuti, ‘A Garland of
>> Metres: In Praise of Mañjuśrī’. This book is a joint publication by
>> Deshana: An Institute of Buddhist and Allied Studies, Pune and Aditya
>> Prakashan, New Delhi.
>>
>> For those of you who are not familiar with the text, the Vṛttamālāstuti
>> is a 154-verse eulogy to the Bodhisattva Mañjuśrī and is simultaneously,
>> also a treatise on prosody with150 out of the 154 verses composed in a
>> different metre. Jñānaśrimitra is well-known as a philosopher of the
>> Yogācāra school of Buddhism, and this is his only known non-philosophical
>> work. Our translation is based on the 2016 edition of the text and its
>> commentary by Michael Hahn, Shrikant Bahulkar, Lata Deokar and Mahesh
>> Deokar. The translation will appeal to those interested in Sanskrit
>> literature and prosody as well as Buddhist philosophy and iconography.
>>
>> The book will be available to purchase on Amazon in the next few weeks.
>> In the meantime, it can also be purchased directly from the publishers by
>> writing to them at bibliaimpex at gmail.com.
>>
>> Best wishes,
>>
>> Shrikant Bahulkar[     ]     &    Maitreyi Tanase [Doctoral Student,
>> University of Oxford]
>>
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