Plan of Action

The plan in four stages

The work divides into four stages. They are thematic rather than strictly sequential — collection continues while the lexicon is built, and the lexicon deepens while the applications are written.

Where the work stands

The plan is deliberately granular. Each unit carries a permanent number, a definition of done, and its dependencies — so progress is a matter of record rather than impression.

Unit numbers (SVU-001 onward) never change and never encode a stage, so work can be resequenced without renumbering. The same discipline governs every identifier in the project: an identifier records what a thing is, never where it currently sits.

The working groups

The work is owned by group, not unit by unit, so new work inherits a group instead of waiting to be allocated. Each group has a convener who is answerable for its units. The Tech Team is not a further group — it carries the units whose deliverable is software.

Data sources

The corpus is assembled from the Foundation's own digitised holdings, the open Sanskrit lexical corpora, and a Pāṇinian derivation engine that generates grammatical forms rather than storing them.

The corpus, division by division

Every division of the corpus, what is held in it, and what the seventy-two volume plan still requires. This table is generated from the corpus register itself and is rebuilt whenever the holdings change, so it reports the present position rather than an intention.

Veda mūla — 30 held, 30 still to source

The Saṃhitā text itself, accented. Of what is held, 26 can enter the pipeline as it stands and 4 needs recognition or conversion first.

Padapāṭha — 7 held, 0 still to source

The word-by-word recitational text. Of what is held, 7 can enter the pipeline as it stands and 0 needs recognition or conversion first.

Bhāṣya — 94 held, 30 still to source

Commentary — Sāyaṇa, Bhaṭṭa Bhāskara and others. Of what is held, 47 can enter the pipeline as it stands and 46 needs recognition or conversion first.

Vedāṅga — 63 held, 21 still to source

The six auxiliary disciplines. Of what is held, 43 can enter the pipeline as it stands and 16 needs recognition or conversion first.

Śrauta prayoga — 29 held, 26 still to source

Ritual manuals and their sequence. Of what is held, 29 can enter the pipeline as it stands and 0 needs recognition or conversion first.

Śāstra — 4 held, 75 still to source

Mīmāṃsā, Nyāya, Vedānta, Vyākaraṇa. Of what is held, 4 can enter the pipeline as it stands and 0 needs recognition or conversion first.

Lexical sources — 63 held, 0 still to source

The kośa collections held for corroboration. Of what is held, 63 can enter the pipeline as it stands and 0 needs recognition or conversion first.

Derivation sources — 5 held, 0 still to source

Inputs to the Pāṇinian generator. Of what is held, 5 can enter the pipeline as it stands and 0 needs recognition or conversion first.

Kāvya, Itihāsa, Purāṇa — 0 held, 60 still to source

The surrounding literature. Of what is held, 0 can enter the pipeline as it stands and 0 needs recognition or conversion first.

Miscellany — 4 held, 61 still to source

Everything not yet classified. Of what is held, 0 can enter the pipeline as it stands and 4 needs recognition or conversion first.

Pending uploads

Every held artefact is classified by what stands between it and the pipeline. Nothing has been loaded to the production corpus yet — the schema is still under scholarly review — so the whole holding is queued.

Acquisition gaps

The seventy-two volume plan names 390 distinct works. Reconciling that requirement against the holdings shows precisely what has still to be sourced.

Where the gaps concentrate

The holdings are strongest in Veda mūla, bhāṣya and vedāṅga — the Foundation's own scholarly territory — and thinnest in the darśana, purāṇa, kāvya and applied-śāstra divisions. Acquisition is therefore sequenced by what the volumes actually require, not by what is easiest to obtain.

Project tasks

Four stages, 160 units. Stage numbering is thematic; several stages run concurrently. Items marked Awaiting decision are held pending a scholarly determination and are deliberately not started, because the determination may change the work.

Stage 0 · Foundation & Governance — 14 units, 6 complete

Infrastructure, schema, governance and the registers that everything else is tracked against.

Stage 1 · Collect & Load the Corpus — 30 units, 6 complete

Encoding the accent correctly, then loading the text — mūla, pada-pāṭha, bhāṣya and the ancillary śāstras — with provenance intact.

Stage 2 · Pada Kośa — 38 units, 3 complete

The lexical foundation: the conventional vocabulary drawn from the kośas, the Vedic vocabulary drawn from pada-pāṭha and bhāṣya, and the compositional vocabulary generated from Pāṇini's rules.

Stage 3 · Synthesis, Models & Applications — 60 units, 0 complete

Cross-referencing, translation, the generative engines, and the reading application built on top of them.

Stage 4 · Presentation & Outreach — 18 units, 0 complete

Publication, the researcher interface, and bringing the material to a general audience.