The descent of scripture: a history of the Kamikagama
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Abstract
This dissertation centers on a reception historical study of the Kmikgama-or Kmika for short-which is frequently cited as a primary source for carrying out rituals associated with the worship of iva in the major Hindu aiva temples of Tamilnadu.In so doing, the dissertation traces the Kmika's evolution from its earliest attestations down to the present day with a specific focus on the processes through which the text came to be regarded as authoritative, and in more recent times came to be elevated and stabilized, especially in the context of aivasiddhnta, a dominant Hindu tradition in contemporary Tamilnadu.In particular, it develops an account of scripturalization to argue that the Kmika's evolution as scripture involved an open-ended process of composition, which reflected historical developments in theology and practice, and over time supported a range theological viewpoints, ritual practices, and social configurations.In addition to providing a philologically grounded account of the Kmika's textual evolution, this dissertation offers a deeper understanding of the historical contexts through which it came to prominence.It presents the first longue-dure study of the Kmika (indeed, the first such study of any aiva gama) and raises key questions about the textualized constitution of religious authority and its reproduction over time.More broadly, it contributes to the study of religious texts and the historical processes through which texts come to be regarded as authoritative.1 Rishi Thondunathan, "Saiva Agama Collection Arrives in Jaffna, Sri Lanka" (Kauai, HI: Kauai's Hindu Monastery, 2013), https://www.
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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
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| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
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.
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