[INDOLOGY] Announcement of New Publication

[Shrikant Bahulkar]

Sending the announcement again with minor corrections

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 [Professor, Dalai Lama Chair in Nalanda Studies, Somaiya
Vidyavihar University, Mumbai 400 077 ]     &

Maitreyi Tanase [Doctoral Student, University of Oxford]



On Sat, 11 Jul 2026 at 22:27, Shrikant Bahulkar <shrikant.bahulkar at gmail.com>
wrote:

>
> 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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>>> INDOLOGY mailing list
>>> INDOLOGY at list.indology.info
>>> https://list.indology.info/mailman/listinfo/indology
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>>
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