Introduction; Chapter 1 Text and Transmission; Chapter 2 R?s-pañc?dhy?y?: Text and Translation; Chapter 3 The Tradition Reinterpreted; Conclusion;

Concerned with the process in Hinduism of reinterpreting classical texts and imbuing them with new inspiration. An example par excellence is Hariram Vyas's Ras-pancadhyayi, the earliest known Braj Bhasa version of the five chapters of Bhagavatapurana on Krsna's Dance with the Gopis.