| The Life of a Text |
| Acknowledgments |
| A Note on Transliteration |
 | One The Text and the Research Context |
| Two The Text in Recitation and Song |
| Three The Text Expounded: The Development of Manas-Katha |
| Four The Art of Manas-Katha |
| Five Words Made Flesh: The Text Enacted |
| Six The Text in a Changing Society |
| Glossary of Names with Transliteration |
| Bibliography |
 | Index |
| • | A |
| • | B |
| • | C |
| • | D |
| • | E |
| • | F |
| • | G |
| • | H |
| • | I |
| • | J |
| • | K |
| • | L |
| • | M |
| • | N |
| • | O |
| • | P |
| • | R |
| • | S |
| • | T |
| • | U |
| • | V |
| • | W |
| • | Y |