A structured home for the indexed literature, sources, research questions, and scholarly resources that sit behind the public website.
Public pilot
These examples show the direction of the repository: a source, its context, evidence status, and the next scholarly or scientific question should remain connected.
A source record connecting the Sanskrit verse, textual location, interpretive notes, and questions about how Vedic literature conceptualizes order, truth, causation, and emergence.
Evidence status: Source cited • interpretation separated from science
Open source →A classical medical passage describing sleep in relation to strength, nourishment, knowledge, well-being, and longevity. The modern research question is not whether Caraka “discovered sleep science,” but which observations can be mapped responsibly to contemporary sleep research.
Evidence status: Text located • modern mapping remains a hypothesis
Open source →A research scaffold linking the living performance tradition to terminology, practitioner expertise, cognitive tasks, candidate controls, and questions for future behavioral or neuroimaging studies.
Evidence status: Open question • collaborators invited
Open related record →Critically annotated scientific and scholarly records organized by theme, study type, evidence strength, and whether their relationship to an IKS topic is direct, component-based, or analogical.
Explore the Evidence Library →Structured references to Sanskrit texts and passages, with room for editions, translations, notes, traditional context, themes, and links to related research.
Schema establishedQuestions generated from textual study and interdisciplinary scholarship, linked to evidence status, feasibility, related literature, projects, and future studies.
Repository scaffoldedCurated institutions, journals, archives, digital tools, educational pathways, conferences, fellowships, and other resources useful to the IKS community.
Curation in progressBiomedical and scientifically investigable observations from Sanskrit literature, kept distinct from modern evidence and linked to testable research questions.
Explore SBKB →Versioned scholarly documents with stable metadata, downloadable PDFs, explicit review status, and links to later formal publications when available.
Working-paper framework →The public interface will be released incrementally. The underlying data model comes first so that search, multilingual pages, bibliographies, working papers, and research projects can eventually draw from the same source of truth.