The Life of a Text
  Acknowledgments
  A Note on Transliteration

 expand sectionOne  The Text and the Research Context
 collapse sectionTwo  The Text in Recitation and Song
 •The Varieties of Recitation
 •Spreading the Word: The Puranic Recitation Model
 collapse sectionThe Rites of Recitation
 •The Samput
 •The Arti
 •Practitioners Of Mas Parayan
 •Manas As Marathon
 •A Family Celebrates Divali
 •Path as Protection/Propitiation
 expand sectionThe "Great Sacrifice" of MANAS Recitation
 expand sectionThe Pleasures of Manas Singing
 expand sectionThree  The Text Expounded: The Development of Manas-Katha
 expand sectionFour  The Art of Manas-Katha
 expand sectionFive  Words Made Flesh: The Text Enacted
 expand sectionSix  The Text in a Changing Society

  Glossary of Names with Transliteration
 expand sectionBibliography
 expand sectionIndex
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