[INDOLOGY] Announcement of New Publication

[Madhav Deshpande]

Hearty congratulations.!!!

Madhav M. Deshpande
Professor Emeritus, Sanskrit and Linguistics
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
Senior Fellow, Oxford Center for Hindu Studies
Adjunct Professor, National Institute of Advanced Studies, Bangalore, India

[Residence: Campbell, California, USA]


On Sat, Jul 11, 2026 at 10:13 AM Shrikant Bahulkar via INDOLOGY <
indology at list.indology.info> wrote:

> 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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