Krsna's Round Dance Reconsidered

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Concerned with the process in Hinduism of reinterpreting classical texts and imbuing them with new inspiration.

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Acknowledgments
Preface
Introduction	p. 1
Hariram Vyas's Life	p. 2
Hariram Vyas's Works	p. 9
Text and Transmission	p. 13
Introduction	p. 13
Collation	p. 18
Stemma Codicum	p. 31
Recensio	p. 37
Technical Observations: Metre and Oral Formulae	p. 48
Linguistic Features	p. 57
Ras-pancadhyayi: Text and Translation	p. 73
The Tradition Reinterpreted	p. 163
Radha and Love-in-Union (Sambhoga Srngara)	p. 165
Playing down Krsna's Majesty (Aisvarya)	p. 169
Philosophy Shunned	p. 172
Poetic Artistry (Kavya) Discarded	p. 175
A New Portrait of the Gopis	p. 176
Conclusion	p. 181
List of References	p. 183
Appendix A: Word Index of Ras-pancadhyayi	p. 191
Appendix B: Parallel Passages in Vyas's and Bhagavatapurana's Version	p. 227
Index	p. 240
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