I am pleased to forward to the list the message below from the co-publisher and distributor of this volume (Krešo Krnic).

John Brockington

Dear Colleagues,

It is our pleasure to announce that the Proceedings of the fifth Dubrovnik International Conference on the Sanskrit Epics and Purāṇas (DICSEP) are now available. Entitled On the Growth and Composition of the Sanskrit Epics and Purāṇas. Relationship to Kāvya. Social and Economic Context, ed. by Ivan Andrijanić and Sven Sellmer with Mislav Ježić as general editor, it contains 19 contributions accompanied by two long introductory articles and two exhaustive indices of cited passages and of names and subjects. The contributors are Greg Bailey, Anna Bonisoli Alquati, Horst Brinkhaus, Johannes Bronkhorst, Danielle Feller, Klara Gönc Moačanin, Oliver Hellvig, Alf Hiltebeitel, Mislav Ježić, Leonid Kulikov, Patrick Olivelle, Tiziana Pontillo, Sven Sellmer, Renate Söhnen-Thieme, Lidia Sudyka, Przemysław Szczurek, McComas Taylor, Kenneth R. Valpey and Yaroslav Vassilkov.

The volume contains XXXVI+534 pages. It is hard bound with purple book cloth and gold print in a glossy dust jacket.

The price of the volume is US$ 60 plus delivery costs of between US$ 10 and 13, depending on the delivery address, and it is available from Ibis grafika, its co-publisher and distributor. Please send inquiries to info@ibis-grafika.hr for an exact price quote (book + delivery) and bank account details (payment only by money transfer).

Professor J. L. Brockington

Emeritus Professor of Sanskrit, University of Edinburgh

Vice President, International Association of Sanskrit Studies

Interim Academic Director, Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies