Evidently a manuscript of the Maitrāyaṇī-Prātiśākhya was in the private possession of Shridhar Shastri Ware of Nasik, but after he passed away, the whereabouts of the manuscripts in his possession is not clear. I think Yudhishthir Mimamsak tried to find it but was not able to find it. I was told that some of those manuscripts were given to the Nasik Nagar Vachanalaya. Several years ago, I visited this place. I looked through the rough list of their manuscript holdings, but did not find this particular text. Vidhata Mishra probably had access to a different source.

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 Sun, May 3, 2026 at 1:57 PM Harry Spier <vasishtha.spier@gmail.com> wrote:
1)  V. Mishra in his bibliography does list the maitrāyaṇīya prātiśākhya as a source (but without bibliographic info) under books. See page 236

2)  Vishal Agrawal in this online article https://www.indica.today/long-reads/svadhyaya-studying-our-holy-books-part-vii/
says "Several others [ prātiśākhyas]  known to exist till recent centuries have been lost. A manuscript of Maitrāyaṇīya Prātishākhya existed till a few decades back for instance".

3) This blog post by I think Detlef Eichler 
https://detlef108.blogspot.com/2014/11/#:~:text=Maitr%C4%81ya%E1%B9%87%C4%ABya%20Pr%C4%81ti%C5%9B%C4%81khya%20(978),http%3A%2F%2Fpeterffreund.com%2FVedic_Literature%2Fatharva_veda_pratishakhya.htm
 lists a Maitrāyaṇīya Prātiśākhya (978) . I don't know what the (978) refers to , a bibliographic entry?

Harry Spier


On Sun, May 3, 2026 at 4:26 PM Hock, Hans Henrich via INDOLOGY <indology@list.indology.info> wrote:
I would be interested in this too.

Hans Henrich Hock


> On May 3, 2026, at 12:57, Madhav Deshpande via INDOLOGY <indology@list.indology.info> wrote:
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> Dear Colleagues,
>
> On p. 20 of his book "Sanskrit Phonetics," Vidhata Mishra lists the Maitrāyaṇī Prātiśākhya and briefly refers to its contents.
>  o<image.png>
>      This makes me wonder if he had access to this as yet unpublished work. If anyone has any information on this work, I would like to know. Thanks.
>
> 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
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