This article records tradition as it has been passed down and reported. Its sources are not yet part of the atlas's verified catalogue.
UNESCO's Representative List entry for Sankirtana, the Vaishnava ritual singing, drumming and dancing tradition of Manipur, documents the practice's actual community structure, its performance occasions across the ritual year, and the transmission methods that carry it from one generation of practitioners to the next, an official, publicly maintained record rather than a secondhand description.
That kind of institutional documentation matters for a sacred dance entry because it gives a checkable, dated account of who currently performs a tradition, on what occasions and under what recognized transmission method, distinct from and a useful complement to an older textual or devotional description of the same dance's religious meaning.
A sacred dance entry therefore records, where such documentation exists, a dance's current recognized status, its performing community and its transmission method, alongside its stated religious purpose, since the Sankirtana listing shows a living dance tradition's present day practice is itself a documented, citable fact worth recording rather than assumed to continue unchanged from an older textual account. Not every sacred dance the atlas records carries this kind of institutional documentation, and an entry says plainly when it does not.