Bibliographic record
Abstract
This dissertation is a literary analysis of the Harivaṃśa that examines the text's portrayal of its protagonist, Kṛṣṇa, in contrast to the portrayal of Kṛṣṇa among other Sanskrit narratives—particularly the Mahābhārata and Bhāgavata Purāṇa. The study explores heterogeneity among conceptions of deity within Sanskrit literature by comparing each text's portrayal of the same figure and contrasting the narrative logic of each work. It puts forward a fourfold model by which Harivaṃśa and its portrayal of Kṛṣṇa can be contextualized. This model situates the text across four axes or dimensions: 1) the historical dimension, 2) the inter-textual dimension, 3) the narrative dimension, and 4) the theological dimension. The Harivaṃśa can thus be indexed as 1) the oldest known Sanskrit narrative to offer an origin story for the figure known as Kṛṣṇa, 2) a commentarial appendix to the Mahābhārata, 3) an actualization narrative of Kṛṣṇa, and 4) a text that asserts a unique theology to the much more popular Bhāgavata Purāṇa. This research contributes to a growing body of scholarship on comparative Sanskrit literature and to the study of the Harivaṃśa, more specifically. Future research may focus on historical elements of this project (early Kṛṣṇa worship), homogeneity among portrayals of Kṛṣṇa in other works, or applying the fourfold model to other works.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
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 | 0.005 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 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.
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".