Namm?lv?r. A Hundred Measures of Time: Tiruviruttam, Archana Venkatesan (Trans.) : book review
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Abstract
Namm?ḻv?r is perhaps best known to most audiences through A.K. Ramanujan's translation of selections from his monumental poem Tiruv?ymoḻi, published in Hymns for the Drowning (1981). The compendium of writings attributed to the Tamil Vaiṣṇava bhakti saints (?ḻv?rs), the N?l?yira Tivviyap Pirpantam (The Divine Collection of Four Thousand), contains a total of four poems attributed to the poet known variously as Namm?ḻv?r, Caṭakōpaṉ, or M?ṟaṉ. These are the Tiruv?ymoḻi, the longest and perhaps most well known and highly regarded among the poems, the Tiruviruttam, the Tiruv?ciriyam, and the Periya Tiruvant?ti. Within the Śrīvaiṣṇava theological context, these four poems are identified with the four Vedic saṃhit?s, with the Tiruviruttam and the Tiruv?ymoḻi representing the Ṛk and S?ma texts. The coupling of the Tiruviruttam and the Tiruv?ymoḻi as texts that hold pride of place extends well beyond this powerful allegoric identification. Indeed, one could argue that it is near impossible to understand the massive thousand verse Tiruv?ymoḻi - in all its exegetical and theological fullness - without reference to the Tiruviruttam, which until now, has remained rather inaccessible to the scholarly world.
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Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.006 | 0.001 |
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.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
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".