Textual traditions and variant readings

Drafted — awaiting review

A Veda is received in śākhās. The Ṛgveda you meet here is the Śākala saṃhitā unless a record names another. Śukla and Kṛṣṇa Yajurveda are indexed as two families, not as one flattened book.

Itihāsa and Gītā prints often follow a vulgate. Critical editions (Baroda Rāmāyaṇa, BORI Mahābhārata) sometimes number the same story differently. When we open a verse, we name the edition. We do not silently move a number to look tidy.

The Muktika list of one hundred and eight Upanishads is one beloved canon. Other catalogues exist. They are allowed to exist. This room does not scold them.

Where scholars still argue — the standing of the Uttarakāṇḍa, a Kashmiri Gītā extra line, a Paippalāda hymn — the index can carry the name while the argument stays visible in a note. That is hospitality toward the tradition, not indecision.