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sacred rivers and gatherings of ascetic orders, religious teachers and pilgrims.", "scope_statement": "This model owns Kumbh Mela as a recurring Hindu pilgrimage and gathering tradition, including the identity, ritual programme, participating communities and temporary arrangements of particular editions; it distinguishes the tradition from any single edition or host city.", "in_scope": [ "Identification of an edition through its host location, recognised designation, dates and supporting authorities", "Ritual bathing, processions, religious assemblies and their locally recognised significance", "Participation by pilgrims, ascetic orders, religious teachers, service providers and organising authorities", "Temporary accommodation, circulation, river access and essential services supporting the gathering", "Edition-specific operating conditions, restrictions, incidents and restoration obligations" ], "out_of_scope": [ "Hindu theology and pilgrimage traditions beyond what is needed to interpret this observance", "Permanent governance, infrastructure and everyday life of host cities", "Comprehensive biographies or institutional models of participating religious orders", "River-basin ecology and water management beyond their interfaces with the gathering", "Other religious fairs and bathing festivals as independently modelled events" ], "distinguishing_features": [ "An edition is identified as Kumbh Mela through attributable religious, local or organising recognition; crowd size or river bathing alone does not establish identity.", "An edition's identity joins a host sacred geography with a recognised calendrical occasion, rather than merely specifying an annual fair at a religious site.", "Ritual bathing and the participation of religious communities must be interpreted within the Kumbh tradition; similar activities occur at other pilgrimages.", "The recurring tradition remains distinct from an individual edition, bathing date, procession or temporary settlement.", "Labels such as Kumbh, Ardh Kumbh and Maha Kumbh require contextual attribution rather than automatic treatment as interchangeable or universally standardised." ], "characteristics": [ { "name": "Edition identity and designation", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Recorded title, local-language names, host location and attributed edition classification", "why_it_matters": "Prevents merging different editions or treating disputed labels as settled classifications." }, { "name": "Sacred geography", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Edition linked to named river, confluence, bathing ghats, processional routes and religious camps", "why_it_matters": "Connects ritual meaning to the actual places where participation occurs." }, { "name": "Calendrical basis and programme", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Announced dates linked to calendrical explanations, issuing authorities and programme revisions", "why_it_matters": "Separates the religious basis of an occasion from its 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"Describes the edition's ritual activities without assuming that all pilgrims share one purpose or practice.", "findings": [ { "id": "situated-ritual-meaning", "name": "Situated ritual meaning", "description": "Attribute accounts of bathing, darshan, teaching and other observances to the communities or authorities that explain them.", "questions": [ { "text": "What significance do participating communities assign to bathing at the named place and occasion?", "kind": "definition", "id": "situated-ritual-meaning-q01" }, { "text": "Which activities are available to an ordinary pilgrim, and what locally recognised conditions govern participation?", "kind": "action", "id": "situated-ritual-meaning-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "orders-processions-and-precedence", "name": "Orders, processions and precedence", "description": "Captures participating ascetic orders and the edition-specific organisation of their public ritual activities.", "findings": [ { "id": "recognised-processional-arrangements", "name": "Recognised processional arrangements", "description": "Treat procession terminology, order, routes and bathing access as attributed arrangements that may vary by edition.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which akharas or other religious bodies participate, and who confirms their roles and procession arrangements?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "recognised-processional-arrangements-q01" }, { "text": "Which ritual decisions belong to religious bodies, and which route or access decisions belong to administrators?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "recognised-processional-arrangements-q02" }, { "text": "How should a disputed or revised procession arrangement be verified before an agent advises pilgrims?", "kind": "action", "id": "recognised-processional-arrangements-q03" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "pilgrim-movement-and-temporary-settlement", "name": "Pilgrim movement and temporary settlement", "description": "Models how pilgrims reach bathing places, stay near the gathering and obtain essential 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"time-specific-pilgrim-access-q02" }, { "text": "What assistance or route adaptations are available for pilgrims with limited mobility or accompanying dependants?", "kind": "action", "id": "time-specific-pilgrim-access-q03" } ] } ] }, { "id": "camps-services-and-assistance", "name": "Camps, services and assistance", "description": "Locates accommodation and essential services within the edition's occupied area.", "findings": [ { "id": "service-reach-and-responsibility", "name": "Service reach and responsibility", "description": "Record who provides each service, whom it serves and whether its location and availability have been verified.", "questions": [ { "text": "Where can pilgrims obtain verified drinking water, sanitation, medical assistance and lost-person reunification support?", "kind": "action", "id": "service-reach-and-responsibility-q01" }, { "text": "Which camp or service operator is responsible for the identified need, and what evidence confirms that responsibility?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "service-reach-and-responsibility-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "operating-conditions-and-accountability", "name": "Operating conditions and accountability", "description": "Assesses changing conditions at the gathering and records the evidence needed to evaluate attendance, incidents and restoration.", "rationale": "Religious significance does not establish present access conditions, and headline scale does not demonstrate successful operation.", "layers": [ { "id": "river-and-crowd-conditions", "name": "River and crowd conditions", "description": "Connects observed river, weather and crowd conditions to authoritative operating decisions.", "findings": [ { "id": "evidence-for-operating-decisions", "name": "Evidence for operating decisions", "description": "Keep measurements, official advisories and resulting restrictions distinct, with explicit locations and validity times.", "questions": [ { "text": "What current evidence describes water conditions, river 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it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "kind-and-parents-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the kind of a Kumbh Mela is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] }, { "id": "distinguishing-features", "name": "Distinguishing features", "description": "What separates a Kumbh Mela from the things most often confused with it.", "questions": [ { "id": "distinguishing-features-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a Kumbh Mela, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "distinguishing-features-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about what distinguishes a Kumbh Mela, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "distinguishing-features-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once what distinguishes a Kumbh Mela is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "state-and-lifecycle", "name": "State and lifecycle", "description": "The states a Kumbh Mela passes through and the events that move it between them.", "rationale": "Most decisions about a thing depend on what state it is in now, which is a claim with a time on it, not a property.", "layers": [ { "id": "lifecycle-stages", "name": "Lifecycle stages", "description": "From coming into existence to ceasing to be one of these.", "findings": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions", "name": "Stages and transitions", "description": "The stages worth naming and what moves a Kumbh Mela between them.", "questions": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a Kumbh Mela, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the lifecycle of a Kumbh Mela, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the lifecycle of a Kumbh Mela is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "observations-and-status", "name": "Observations and current status", "description": "What is observed about a Kumbh Mela, how often and by whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "observation-record", "name": "Observation record", "description": "How an observation of a Kumbh Mela is recorded so that it can be superseded rather than overwritten.", "questions": [ { "id": "observation-record-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes an observation of a Kumbh Mela, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "observation-record-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about an observation of a Kumbh Mela, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "observation-record-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once an observation of a Kumbh Mela is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "process-and-outcome", "name": "Process, inputs and outcome", "description": "How a Kumbh Mela proceeds, what it needs and what it leaves behind.", "rationale": "An activity is known by its steps and its results, and both have to be recordable while it is still running.", "layers": [ { "id": "steps-and-sequence", "name": "Steps and sequence", "description": "The steps of a Kumbh Mela, their order and what may run in parallel.", "findings": [ { "id": "steps-and-preconditions", "name": "Steps, preconditions and completion", "description": "What has to be true before each step of a Kumbh Mela and what marks it done.", "questions": [ { "id": "steps-and-preconditions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a step of a Kumbh Mela, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "steps-and-preconditions-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about a step of a Kumbh Mela, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "steps-and-preconditions-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once a step of a Kumbh Mela is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "inputs-and-results", "name": "Inputs, resources and results", "description": "What a Kumbh Mela consumes and what it produces.", "findings": [ { "id": "inputs-and-outputs", "name": "Inputs, outputs and side effects", "description": "The resources a Kumbh Mela takes and the results it leaves, wanted or not.", "questions": [ { "id": "inputs-and-outputs-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the inputs and results of a Kumbh Mela, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "inputs-and-outputs-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the inputs and results of a Kumbh Mela, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "inputs-and-outputs-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the inputs and results of a Kumbh Mela is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "definitions-in-contest", "name": "Definitions and who holds them", "description": "What Kumbh Mela is taken to mean, and by whom.", "rationale": "When a field disagrees about a concept, the disagreement is the content. A model that picks one definition silently destroys the information.", "layers": [ { "id": "competing-definitions", "name": "Competing definitions", "description": "The main readings and the traditions behind them.", "findings": [ { "id": "definition-map", "name": "Definitions and their holders", "description": "Each definition with the school or body that holds it.", "questions": [ { "id": "definition-map-q01", "text": "Which definitions of Kumbh Mela are in use, and which tradition or body holds each?", "kind": "definition" }, { "id": "definition-map-q02", "text": "What turns on the difference between them in practice?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] }, { "id": "operationalisation", "name": "Operationalisation", "description": "How it is measured or applied when it has to be.", "findings": [ { "id": "operational-record", "name": "Measures and proxies", "description": "Instruments and indicators used to stand in for it.", "questions": [ { "id": "operational-record-q01", "text": "How is Kumbh Mela operationalised or measured in practice, and by what instrument?", "kind": "measurement" }, { "id": "operational-record-q02", "text": "What does that operationalisation leave out, and when does that matter?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "instances-and-use", "name": "Instances, use and consequence", "description": "What counts as an instance of Kumbh Mela and what follows from calling something that.", "rationale": "Applying a concept is an act with consequences, so a model must say what the label licenses and what it does not.", "layers": [ { "id": "instances", "name": "What counts as an instance", "description": "Clear cases, borderline cases and non-cases.", "findings": [ { "id": "instance-tests", "name": "Tests for an instance", "description": "What would settle whether something falls under it.", "questions": [ { "id": "instance-tests-q01", "text": "What would settle whether something is an instance of Kumbh Mela?", "kind": "boundary" }, { "id": "instance-tests-q02", "text": "Which borderline cases are argued about, and on what grounds?", "kind": "definition" } ] } ] }, { "id": "consequence", "name": "Consequence of application", "description": "Rights, duties or decisions that follow from the label.", "findings": [ { "id": "consequence-record", "name": "What the label licenses", "description": "What an agent may do once something is classified this way.", "questions": [ { "id": "consequence-record-q01", "text": "What follows practically once something is treated as Kumbh Mela?", "kind": "action" }, { "id": "consequence-record-q02", "text": "What must an agent not infer from the label alone?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "provenance-and-evidence", "name": "Provenance, evidence and time", "description": "Where every claim about a Kumbh Mela came from and when it held.", "rationale": "A claim without a source and a time cannot be superseded, only overwritten, and an agent that overwrites loses the ability to explain itself.", "layers": [ { "id": "source-and-authority", "name": "Source and authority", "description": "Who said it, on what evidence, and how strongly.", "findings": [ { "id": "claim-provenance", "name": "Claim provenance and confidence", "description": "The authority behind each claim about a Kumbh Mela and how confident it is.", "questions": [ { "id": "claim-provenance-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a Kumbh Mela, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "claim-provenance-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about a claim about a Kumbh Mela, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "claim-provenance-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once a claim about a Kumbh Mela is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "time-and-versions", "name": "Time, versions and supersession", "description": "When a claim was true, when it was learnt, and what replaced it.", "findings": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession", "name": "Validity period and supersession", "description": "How an old claim about a Kumbh Mela is retired without being erased.", "questions": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a Kumbh Mela, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the validity of a claim about a Kumbh Mela, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the validity of a claim about a Kumbh Mela is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "statistics": { "bundles": 6, "layers": 12, "findings": 14, "questions": 38 } } } }