Preferred Citation: Lutgendorf, Philip. The Life of a Text: Performing the Ramcaritmanas of Tulsidas. Berkeley:  University of California Press,  1991. http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/ft796nb4pk/


 

P

Padma purana[*] , 126

Pandey, Gyan, 377

Pandey, Ramji, 156 , 175 , 234 , 328 -29;

photo, 303 ;

at Ramnagar Ramlila , 302 -3, 307 -8

Paramanand, 383

Parashuram, 221 -22, 335 -36, 357 -58

Parayan[*]path[*] , 54 , 266 . See also Path[*]

Parvati, 217 -18

Path[*] , 39 -40;

akhand[*]path[*] , 74 -79;

contemporary popularity of, 427 -28;

defined, 54 ;

literacy as encouraging, 63 ;

melodies used in, 69 ;

Ramlila chanting as, 301 -2;

relation to Katha , 331 ;

ritual applications of, 70 -72

Pathak, Kashinath, 288

Pathak, Shivlal, 139 , 142 -44, 321 ;

royal patronage, 137

Pathak, Shrinivas, 202 -3

Pathak, Vandan, 147 -48, 151 , 231 ;

anecdote on virtuosity, 187 n. 38;

sankavali[*] text, 177

Patronage: of Katha , 160 -61, 164 ;

of Manas , 420 ;

by Marwari community, 420 -26;

of Ramlila , 269 , 282 -85

Pauranika[*] , 124


466

Performance, theory of, 33 -37, 340 ;

technique of framing, 18

Phagua . See Holi

Phalsruti: defined, 38 ;

encouragement of recitation in, 117 ;

use in Puranas, 57 -58

Phulvari , 7 ;

in Kajli singing, 105 , 109 ;

in Ramnagar Ramlila , 332 ;

temple tableau of, 94

Pith[*] . See Vyaspith[*]

Piyush Goswami, 174 , 202 -3

Poddar, Hanuman Prasad, 62 , 368

Poetic signature, 10 -11, 17 -18

Pollock, Sheldon, 346 , 351 , 354 -55, 394

Possession, of expounder by Hanuman, 199

Postman, Neil, 431

Praman[*] , 159 , 187 , 379

Prasang[*] , 17

Pravacan , 160 , 178

Prayagdas, 319 -20

Premchand, 268

Publishing: early Manas editions, 61 -62;

impact of, 62 -63.See also Literacy

Puja-path[*] , 54

Puranas: recitation tradition, 57 -59;

role of oral expounder, 124 -27

Pushti Marg, 275


 

Preferred Citation: Lutgendorf, Philip. The Life of a Text: Performing the Ramcaritmanas of Tulsidas. Berkeley:  University of California Press,  1991. http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/ft796nb4pk/