"This is the single best effort to date on the whole issue of mantra." —Paul R. Courtright, University of North Carolina at Greensboro "I know of nothing in its field that approaches this collection in scope and quality. Superior both in objectivity and in command of Sanskrit, its contributors represent the new grade of excellence in Asian studies produced in half a century of academic maturation in America. In this continent, no better selection could have been made." —Norvin J. Hein, Yale University