Samrajyalaksmipithika: an imperial tantric manual from Vijayanagara
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Abstract
This thesis examines the Smrjyalakmphik, a tantric manual for kingship created during the rule of the Vijayanagara Empire of early sixteenth-century South India.After establishing the plural, inclusive nature of religion at Vijayanagara in this period, this study identifies two crucial ways in which the text's titular goddess Smrjyalakm rewards kings who correctly propitiate her: firstly, by helping them to actualize god-like status on earth, and secondly, by allowing them to absolve themselves of sin (ppa) without curbing their ability to perform the violence necessitated by their caste affiliation.In this way, Smrjyalakmphik articulates a solution to the classical Indian quandary of kingly dependence upon (and inferiority to) Brahmins, in the process offering kings unprecedented ritual power which translates directly into political power and, ultimately, universal overlordship (smrjya).The text provides another example of how tantric practices can be and were central to Indian society, aiding in statecraft and kingship. RsumCette thse s'intresse au Smrjyalakmphik, manuel tantrique destin la royaut sous l'Empire Vijayanagara du dbut du XVIe sicle en Inde du Sud.Aprs avoir dfini la nature plurielle et inclusive de la religion sous les Vijayanagara, cette tude identifie deux types d'intervention utilises par la desse Smrjyalakm pour rcompenser les rois qui apaisent sa colre: d'abord en les aidant atteindre un statut divin, ensuite en leur permettant de s'absoudre de leurs fautes (ppa) sans limiter leur capacit poser les gestes violents inhrents leurs fonctions.Le Smrjyalakmphik propose une solution au dilemme de la dpendance du roi et de son infriorit aux Brahmans.Il offre un pouvoir rituel innovateur se traduisant par une puissance politique menant potentiellement au pouvoir imprial (smrjya).Voil un nouvel exemple des modalits partir desquelles le pouvoir tantrique fut, et demeure central dans la socit indienne, contribuant aux affaires tatiques et royales. Note on TransliterationFor the most part, this thesis employs standard transliteration for Sanskrit and Tamil words.I have used diacritical marks for the personal names of pre-Colonial figures, as well as for places of mythological significance.
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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) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.004 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.013 | 0.003 |
Machine scores (provisional)
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Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
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machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; both teacher heads agree on what is shown here.
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