Pillar 12 · Serve, belong, know

Gyan Kosh

A manuscript viewer with transcription and translation panes, and the national research network behind it.

Claims, labelled

Every claim in the corpus carries exactly one of four labels. Filter by label and watch what happens to the count — that asymmetry is not a flaw in the archive, it is the honest state of the field, and hiding it is what turns a research institution into an apologetics factory.

Manuscript viewer

Bhagavata Purana · Skandha III · f.42r

Telugu script · palm leaf · c. 17th century · OCR confidence 0.91 · CC BY-SA

Evidence labels

Counted separately, shown separately

Traditional doctrine What the text asserts 2,841

Practitioner experience What practitioners report 1,206

Philosophical interpretation What commentators argue 1,974

Tested evidence What study has established 312

Tested evidence is 5% of the corpus. Saying so out loud is what makes the other 95% credible as what it actually is — text, practice and argument, recorded faithfully and not dressed up as proof.

Bharat Gyan Kosh

National open corpus

Manuscripts imaged 48,200

Transcribed 11,940

Critical edition prepared 9,158

Translated into 4+ languages 16,388

Imaging is the easy part and it is nearly done. Transcription, critical editions and translation are the decade of work that follows, and the bars are drawn to show that rather than flatter it.

Shared instrumentation

Electron microscope · Pune Booked 4 Nov · open to any Indian laboratory

Manuscript imaging rig · Thanjavur Queue: 11 days

Bookable by any Indian lab, which is what lets a small group at a state university reach equipment it could never buy.