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Record W2504092508 · doi:10.1177/000842980903800202

Tantra as a religious category in the Mahābhāgavata Purāna

2009· article· en· W2504092508 on OpenAlexaffvenue
Patricia Dold

Bibliographic record

VenueStudies in Religion/Sciences Religieuses · 2009
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldArts and Humanities
TopicIndian and Buddhist Studies
Canadian institutionsMemorial University of Newfoundland
Fundersnot available
KeywordsTantraNarrativeScholarshipPilgrimageLiteratureHistoryArtAncient historyLawPolitical science

Abstract

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The Mahā bhā gavata Purāna is a late medieval Śākta text with significant links to Kāmarūpa, the pilgrimage site near Gauhati, Assam. This text's inclusive religious vision emphasizes bhakti and explicitly acknowledges Tantra as a legitimate religious category. Implicitly, the Mahā bhāgavata integrates Tantra and bhakti through narratives that depict Tantric practices and principles while demonstrating their compatibility and even their unity with bhakti. This paper examines the treatment of Tantra in the Mahā bh ā gavata and argues that the text gives voice to a variety of concerns about Tantra at Kāmarūpa in the late medieval period. Further, this text, which has so far received little attention in modern scholarship, challenges definitions of Tantra as primarily or essentially transgressive.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.001
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Theoretical or conceptual · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.009
Threshold uncertainty score0.020

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.001
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.002
Science and technology studies0.0090.013
Scholarly communication0.0050.002
Open science0.0010.004
Research integrity0.0010.002
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0030.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.090
GPT teacher head0.347
Teacher spread0.258 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designTheoretical or conceptual
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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Published2009
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