I am happy to announce the publication of "The Satsangijivanam by Śatananda : The life and teachings of Swaminarayan : An English summary of contents with index", edited by Jaydev A. Jani and Peter Schreiner, which is available as ebook and/or as paper copy (hardbound).

Swami Sahajānanda (1781-1830), the founder of the Swaminarayan Movement let his immediate disciple Śatānanda write the Satsaṅgijīvanam in order to guarantee that his teaching and influence continue to live among his followers. The content of this extensive work, composed in metrical Sanskrit, is here presented in an English summary, supplemented by an index of names and motifs. The text describes the biography of Swami Sahajānanda and is a revealing document for the religious situation of Hinduism in the Gujarat of its period. As a Dharmashastra it prescribes the customs to be observed during festivals and the norms and values to be followed in private and public life, norms that should replace and reform practices considered as improper (like animal sacrifice).

The book is available for free download as pdf-file from CrossAsia-eBooks. --
      http://dx.doi.org/10.11588/xabooks.185.247
A paper copy (hardbound, 612 p.) can be ordered for 44.90 Euros.

Along with the summary the digitized transliteration of the complete Sanskrit text is made available in two formats (input format and conventional text format) through the link on the CrossAsia-eBooks repository for research data
       http://dx.doi.org/10.11588/data/10095 

The Sanskrit text is also deposited in the textarchive of the Institute of Indology at Zürich where the Satsaṅgijīvanam project was carried out by Prof. Jaydev A. Jani and myself.        
       http://www.aoi.uzh.ch/en/indologie/textarchive.html

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