Upanishads

Situated membership

Membership is assessed against identified evidence rather than inferred solely from a title or subject.

1. Which collection, catalogue, textual attestation, or tradition identifies this work as an Upanishad? provenance
2. Does that evidence establish membership within one named collection or support a broader claim? boundary

Title-to-work resolution

Title matching remains distinguishable from demonstrated textual identity.

1. What incipit, colophon, passage sequence, or catalogue evidence identifies the work behind this title? definition
2. Do differently titled resources represent the same work, related textual forms, or distinct works? boundary

Affiliation evidence

An affiliation claim carries its supporting source and the kind of relationship asserted.

1. What source supports the claimed Vedic or branch affiliation of this Upanishad? provenance
2. Is the relationship textual embedding, transmitted association, or a later classification? definition

Historical claim separation

Historical assessments specify which textual stage or attributed role they concern.

1. Does the proposed date concern composition, redaction, a surviving witness, or a documented citation? definition
2. What evidence supports the date or attribution, and which competing assessments remain unresolved? provenance

Reading support

A quoted reading can be traced to a witness or edition and assessed for relevant uncertainty.

1. Which witness or edition supplies this reading, and what textual basis does it disclose? provenance
2. Are missing passages, conjectural restorations, or variant readings material to the proposed interpretation? boundary

Verifiable passage correspondence

Passage correspondence is checked through textual content and declared reference conventions.

1. Which division and numbering system locates this passage, and what wording disambiguates it? definition
2. How much of the selected passage corresponds across the compared resources, including omissions or additions? measurement

Context-bound teaching claims

A teaching claim specifies who speaks, what is asserted, and the textual extent supporting the reading.

1. Who presents this statement, to whom, and is it instruction, a question, an objection, or a reported position? definition
2. What evidence justifies extending this statement beyond its passage to the work or wider Upanishadic corpus? boundary

Interpretation source links

Meaning claims retain the wording and interpretive sources on which they depend.

1. How does this translation or commentary interpret the relevant term in this particular passage? definition
2. Which textual, grammatical, or commentarial evidence supports that reading and any recorded alternatives? provenance

Quotation and translation readiness

A proposed presentation identifies its source passage and discloses transformations affecting meaning.

1. Can the quotation be verified against a named edition and passage rather than an unattributed saying? provenance
2. What attribution and labelling are needed for an existing translation, an agent-produced translation, or a paraphrase? action

Use-specific eligibility

Reuse decisions refer to the selected resource and proposed action rather than the age of the underlying work alone.

1. What licence, rights statement, or access condition applies to this specific resource? provenance
2. Do the documented conditions support the proposed quotation, redistribution, adaptation, or computational processing? action

Kinds and varieties

Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.

1. Which of these kinds and varieties hold for the sense of Upanishads this model covers, and on what evidence? provenance

Identifiers and schemes

Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.

1. Which of these identifiers and schemes hold for the sense of Upanishads this model covers, and on what evidence? provenance

Standards and regulation

Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.

1. Which of these standards and regulation hold for the sense of Upanishads this model covers, and on what evidence? provenance

Real-world use

Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.

1. Which of these real-world use hold for the sense of Upanishads this model covers, and on what evidence? provenance

Typical measurements

Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.

1. Which of these typical measurements hold for the sense of Upanishads this model covers, and on what evidence? provenance

Failure modes and hazards

Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.

1. Which of these failure modes and hazards hold for the sense of Upanishads this model covers, and on what evidence? provenance

Regional variation

Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.

1. Which of these regional variation hold for the sense of Upanishads this model covers, and on what evidence? provenance

Neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart

Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.

1. Which of these neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart hold for the sense of Upanishads this model covers, and on what evidence? provenance