Notes

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Keeping Mythology and History Apart

A working note on the editorial line this archive draws between story, tradition, archaeology, and history.

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Karma Across Traditions

A comparative look at how Hindu, Buddhist, and Jain thought each use the word "karma" to mean genuinely different things.

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Self and Not-Self

A comparative note on the deepest fault line in Indian philosophy — traditions that affirm an innermost self against the Buddhist analysis that questions it.

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Many Roads to Liberation

A comparative note on how different traditions describe liberation — what it releases, and from what — using related but non-identical concepts.

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Devotion Across Traditions

A comparative note tracing bhakti as it recurs, in genuinely different forms, across Vaishnava, Shaiva, and Sikh devotional poets separated by centuries and social position.

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Reading Sacred Geography

A methodological note on how this archive approaches place pages, separating devotional significance, narrative tradition, and documented history at sites where all three frequently overlap.

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