**Shares of Bank of Maharashtra BMBK.NS rise as much as 6.47% to 80.43 rupees apiece, highest since November 2010
**Stock last up 4.7% at 79.1 rupees
**Bank's March-qtr profit rises nearly 35% to 20.14 billion rupees ($215.86 million)
**Multiple brokerages such as ICICI Direct, HDFC Institutional Research and Systematix term the quarterly performance strong, calling all-round credit growth, steady deposit growth and improving asset quarterly positives
**More than 40.7 million shares change hands vs 30-day average of 20.8 million shares
**YTD, stock up 27.2%
($1 = 93.3000 Indian rupees)
(Reporting by Mridula Kumar in Bengaluru)
((Mridula.Kumar@thomsonreuters.com;))