# Āroha Omnis Docs — Machine Index (llms.txt) # Volume I: The Brahma-Vaiṣṇava Methodology (AOC-DOCS-001 v1.0) # Canonical Base: https://arohaomniscorp.com/docs ## PROJECT An address for every line of the tradition. Path: /docs/project-aesthova-arkengine URN: urn:arka:docs:project:v1 Summary: Ārk Engine is permanent citation infrastructure for the Śrī Brahma-Mādhva-Gauḍīya Sampradāya corpus — one lineage, addressed the way scholarly publishing addresses a paper: a resolver, not a search box. ## DOCS-001 Overview Path: /docs/methodology URN: urn:arka:docs:methodology:v1 Confidence Grade: A Summary: Volume I of the Āroha Omnis documentation: The Brahma-Vaiṣṇava Methodology, foundational epistemology, and canonical synthesis. ## §0 How to Read This Document Path: /docs/methodology/how-to-read URN: urn:arka:docs:methodology:how-to-read Confidence Grade: A Summary: Scope, anti-scope, confidence grades, the honesty rule, and editorial conventions across the methodology. ## §1 Two Kinds of Text Path: /docs/methodology/two-kinds-of-text URN: urn:arka:docs:methodology:two-kinds-of-text Confidence Grade: A Summary: Opens with the RV 4.58.2 three-readings failure that CF-02 resolves. The inference chain for apauruṣeyatva, the Type I/II flattening-vs-inflating table, and why other traditions are never adjudicated here (Rule E-01). ## §2 Pramāṇa: The Instrument Set Path: /docs/methodology/pramana URN: urn:arka:docs:methodology:pramana Confidence Grade: A Summary: Three epistemic instruments, the four doṣas, and the atīndriya panel — what is and is not beyond the reach of the senses, which is what §15 later operationalizes. ## §3 Āroha and Avaroha Path: /docs/methodology/aroha-avaroha URN: urn:arka:docs:methodology:aroha-avaroha Confidence Grade: A Summary: Āroha vs avaroha, the paramparā-as-chain-of-custody engineering analogy with its stated limits, and the MBTN warning against unqualified commentary with its three-qualifications table. ## §4 Adhikāra: The Qualified Reader Path: /docs/methodology/adhikara URN: urn:arka:docs:methodology:adhikara Confidence Grade: A Summary: The internal/external objection table that answers the circularity charge, and the three-register worked example on the name Kṛṣṇa. ## §5 The Layer Model Path: /docs/methodology/layers URN: urn:arka:docs:methodology:layers Confidence Grade: A Summary: The four registers — ādhibhautika, ādhidaivika, ādhyātmika, pāramārthika — why they do not compete, and why the ultimate reading is the primary one. ## §6 Samanvaya: The Central Rule Path: /docs/methodology/samanvaya URN: urn:arka:docs:methodology:samanvaya Confidence Grade: A Summary: Vedānta-sūtra 1.1.4 (tat tu samanvayāt) and 1.4.28 (etena sarve vyākhyātāḥ): the universal harmonic coordination of all names and texts. ## §7 Parama-mukhya-vṛtti & Theory of Names Path: /docs/methodology/names URN: urn:arka:docs:methodology:names Confidence Grade: A Summary: Madhva’s doctrine of supreme primary signification: all words — and, at its widest, all sound whatsoever — denote the Supreme Lord. States the conclusion at three widths with the grade each one carries. ## §8 The Mīmāṁsā Toolkit, Subordinated Path: /docs/methodology/mimamsa-toolkit URN: urn:arka:docs:methodology:mimamsa-toolkit Confidence Grade: A Summary: What Vedānta takes from Pūrva-Mīmāṁsā: the six marks of purport (ṣaḍ-vidha-tātparya-liṅga) and the five-part adhikaraṇa structure. ## §9 Mukhya and Gauṇa Meaning Path: /docs/methodology/mukhya-gauna URN: urn:arka:docs:methodology:mukhya-gauna Confidence Grade: A Summary: When a word may be bent: primary vs secondary/metaphorical senses, the default rule, and rigorous licensing conditions. ## §10 Corpus Ranking & Conflict Resolution Path: /docs/methodology/conflict-resolution URN: urn:arka:docs:methodology:conflict-resolution Confidence Grade: A Summary: The Prasthāna-trayī filter, the seven-tier corpus ranking T1–T7, the guṇa classification and its limits, and the eight-step conflict protocol. ## CF-01 CF-01: Indra: The Post vs Occupant Path: /docs/methodology/case-files/cf-01-indra URN: urn:arka:cf:01:indra Confidence Grade: A Summary: Adhikaraṇa resolution of the Indra-passages: Indra is an office, and the office has had different occupants (ŚB 8.1.5, 8.1.18). Where the predicates exceed any officeholder, the name reaches its full extension. ## CF-02 CF-02: Ṛg Veda 4.58.2: Four Horns Path: /docs/methodology/case-files/cf-02-rv-4-58-2 URN: urn:arka:cf:02:rv.4.58.2 Confidence Grade: B Summary: Three famous readings of one verse — sacrificial, grammatical (Patañjali), and devotional (Nīlakaṇṭha). All three stand at three registers, and Patañjali is evidence rather than opposition. ## CF-03 CF-03: Ṛg Veda 1.164.46: Many Names Path: /docs/methodology/case-files/cf-03-rv-1-164-46 URN: urn:arka:cf:03:rv.1.164.46 Confidence Grade: A Summary: The foundational verse "ekaṁ sad viprā bahudhā vadanti", adjudicated against the strongest pūrvapakṣa in Part III: one existent, personally qualified, denoted by many aspectual names — established on ṚV 1.164.46 with BG 15.15. ## CF-04 CF-04: Śvetāśvatara: Rudra & Śiva Path: /docs/methodology/case-files/cf-04-rudra-shiva URN: urn:arka:cf:04:rudra.shiva Confidence Grade: B Summary: The Śvetāśvatara adjudicated on upakrama–upasaṁhāra rather than on etymology, without invoking lakṣaṇā anywhere. Grade B: Madhva did not comment on this Upaniṣad. ## CF-05 CF-05: The Tryambaka Mantra Path: /docs/methodology/case-files/cf-05-tryambaka URN: urn:arka:cf:05:tryambaka Confidence Grade: B Summary: Ṛg Veda 7.59.12: the ādhidaivika reading is not contested. The second line’s request for release from death fails S2 by ŚvU 3.8 and BG 8.16 — Grade B, and it stands or falls with CF-04. ## CF-06 CF-06: Śiva’s Self-Testimony Path: /docs/methodology/case-files/cf-06-shiva-self-testimony URN: urn:arka:cf:06:shiva.testimony Confidence Grade: C Summary: QUARANTINED · Grade C. Two verses whose source we could not trace, retained solely as a worked exercise in anvaya: one line, two parses, nearly opposite meanings. No conclusion depends on them. ## CF-07 CF-07: Durgā: Śakti & Dependence Path: /docs/methodology/case-files/cf-07-durga URN: urn:arka:cf:07:durga.shakti Confidence Grade: A Summary: Śakti is not the independent ultimate cause — established on ŚvU 4.10 and BG 7.14 by direct statement, not on the disputed sūtras. The Śākta metaphysical argument is recorded as unanswered. ## CF-08 CF-08: Mahiṣāsura: Two Slayings Path: /docs/methodology/case-files/cf-08-mahisasura URN: urn:arka:cf:08:mahisasura Confidence Grade: C Summary: A deliberate null result. Two T5 narratives in contradiction are structurally unresolvable at T5; the narrative is admissible under C-01 and probative of nothing. Grade C pending collation. ## CF-09 CF-09: Bṛhad-āraṇyaka 2.4.5 Path: /docs/methodology/case-files/cf-09-bru-2-4-5 URN: urn:arka:cf:09:bru.2.4.5 Confidence Grade: A Summary: Yājñavalkya to Maitreyī: ātman here denotes the Supreme Self — on upakrama–upasaṁhāra, the S2 overflow, the instrumental grammar of the dearness clause, and Madhva’s own Bṛhad-āraṇyaka-bhāṣya. ## §11 The Six Darśanas as One Staircase Path: /docs/methodology/darshanas URN: urn:arka:docs:methodology:darshanas Confidence Grade: A Summary: Each darśana’s question and the question it cannot answer, Rule D-01 on subordination, and why the Sāṅkhya-kārikā’s atheism is stated plainly rather than explained away. ## §12 Puruṣārtha: The Four Aims Path: /docs/methodology/purushartha URN: urn:arka:docs:methodology:purushartha Confidence Grade: A Summary: Dharma, Artha, Kāma, Mokṣa under Rule D-02: technically authoritative within its domain, normatively subordinate — and why the Artha-śāstra and Kāma-sūtra are not sanitized on this platform. ## §13 Nīti-śāstra: Reading Prudential Literature Path: /docs/methodology/niti-shastra URN: urn:arka:docs:methodology:niti-shastra Confidence Grade: A Summary: The four-register reading of the classic “abandon the earth for the ātman” maxim, tied to CF-09, plus house rules NĪ1–NĪ4 for locator discipline. ## §14 Time, History & Itihāsa Claims Path: /docs/methodology/itihasa-time URN: urn:arka:docs:methodology:itihasa-time Confidence Grade: A Summary: Where itihāsa and archaeology actually collide — a four-question table — and Rule H-01: neither merging tradition’s account with the record nor treating absence of confirmation as refutation. ## §15 Science: The Three-Column Ledger Path: /docs/methodology/science URN: urn:arka:docs:methodology:science Confidence Grade: A Summary: The Vaimānika Śāstra worked in full — not airworthy, dated to 1904 (IISc, 1974) — and Bhāgavata cosmography attributed by name to Richard L. Thompson as an L06 inference, never asserted as settled. Rules S1–S7. ## §16 Communication & Narrative-First Register Path: /docs/methodology/communication URN: urn:arka:docs:methodology:communication Confidence Grade: A Summary: The narrative-first model (Govinda Das’s Karṇa on Trial), what’s borrowed from Made to Stick, and why Hooked’s variable-reward mechanic is refused architecturally, not stylistically. ## §17 The Publishing Protocol Path: /docs/methodology/protocol URN: urn:arka:docs:methodology:protocol Confidence Grade: A Summary: The twenty-two steps, in five phases: establish the text, establish the subject, test the reading, test against the corpus, publish. Steps are not optional and are not reordered. ## §18 Catalog of Failure Modes Path: /docs/methodology/failure-modes URN: urn:arka:docs:methodology:failure-modes Confidence Grade: A Summary: The eighteen named failure modes M01–M18 with their detection tests — including the several this document has itself committed in draft and withdrawn. ## §19 Citation, URN & The Ārk Layer Model Path: /docs/methodology/urn-layers URN: urn:arka:docs:methodology:urn-layers Confidence Grade: A Summary: The architecture of deterministic canonical identifiers: urn:arka syntax, the immutability and non-conflation commitments, and the seven-layer separation L01–L07. ## §20 Governance & Open Register Path: /docs/methodology/governance URN: urn:arka:docs:methodology:governance Confidence Grade: A Summary: Four commitments stated so that failure to keep them is visible from outside: no anonymous interpretation, a public open register, reader-visible grades, and dated non-silent corrections. ## App A Appendix A · Glossary Path: /docs/methodology/appendix-a-glossary URN: urn:arka:docs:appendix:glossary Confidence Grade: A Summary: Comprehensive Sanskrit and philosophical terminology with precise technical definitions according to the Brahma-Vaiṣṇava tradition. ## App B Appendix B · Source Register & Sigla Path: /docs/methodology/appendix-b-sigla URN: urn:arka:docs:appendix:sigla Confidence Grade: A Summary: Complete table of canonical abbreviations, standard printed editions, and lineage repositories used across the corpus. ## App C Appendix C · The Working Library Path: /docs/methodology/appendix-c-library URN: urn:arka:docs:appendix:library Confidence Grade: A Summary: The authoritative editions of the Prasthāna-trayī, Mādhva-corpus, Gauḍīya-corpus, and external scholarly apparatus. ## App D Appendix D · The Open Register Path: /docs/methodology/appendix-d-open-register URN: urn:arka:docs:appendix:open-register Confidence Grade: A Summary: Twenty-six actionable entries: quarantined Grade-C citations, open philological and doctrinal disputes, and the dated withdrawals of readings this surface published in earlier drafts. ## App E Appendix E · Build Specification Path: /docs/methodology/appendix-e-build-spec URN: urn:arka:docs:appendix:build-spec Confidence Grade: A Summary: The formal software build specification AOC-DOCS-BUILD-001 v1.0 for the /docs surface, layout, components, tokens, and acceptance gates.