Darshana Graph: A Parallel Commentary Corpus for Comparative Indian Philosophy, with Stylometric and Exploratory Graph Analyses
arXiv:2606.18222v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We introduce Darshana Graph, a corpus of over 125,000 text records spanning classical Hindu, Buddhist, and Jain philosophical traditions, drawn from public-domain and openly licensed translations of sources including the Bhagavad Gita, Brahma Sutras, principal Upanishads, the Pali Canon, and core Jain texts. Its distinctive contribution lies in a structurally unique subset of roughly 8,500 Hindu and Jain records in which the same root verse or sutra is aligned across eighteen historical commentators representing five schools of Vedanta and other
The proliferation of digital humanities projects and advanced computational linguistics tools enables the creation of large-scale, intricate textual corpora like Darshana Graph.
This development is important for strategic readers because it provides a foundational data set for AI to engage with complex, multi-lingual philosophical traditions, potentially influencing how AI models understand and process nuanced cultural and historical information.
The availability of Darshana Graph changes the landscape for AI research in digital humanities by offering a richly annotated, cross-commentary corpus, allowing for new stylometric and comparative analyses of Indian philosophical texts.
- · AI researchers in digital humanities
- · Computational linguists
- · Scholars of Indian philosophy
- · Traditional, manual comparative philosophy methods
Immediate access to a vast, structured dataset for Machine Learning models to analyze ancient philosophical traditions.
Development of specialized AI models capable of nuanced textual analysis and cross-cultural comparison in philosophical domains.
Potential for AI to contribute to new interpretations or syntheses within humanistic studies, challenging existing paradigms via data-driven insights.
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