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The bundle is a syllabus you can weigh
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Claim (verbatim)
A large share of South Asian manuscripts are multi-text bundles — several works copied together in one pothi — and what travels together was studied together: the bundle fossilizes a teacher's or owner's working set. Aggregated over thousands of manuscripts, co-occurrence should reveal curricular modules — the actual paths students took through the literature — as network communities, something normative curriculum lists cannot provide because those lists are prescriptive rather than behavioural. The structure is testable: if bundles are syllabi, community boundaries should follow disciplines and study-stages, not sects or centuries. If it holds, we obtain the first behavioural map of Sanskrit education, and the works that bridge communities identify the interdisciplinary hinges of the tradition.
Prediction clause (verbatim)
In the NGMPP/NGMCP catalogue, the co-occurrence network of works appearing together in multi-text manuscripts will show community structure with modularity significantly above degree-preserving random baselines, and at least 70% of co-bundled work-pairs will belong to the same discipline as classified in the Pandit database, with discipline predicting community membership better than religious affiliation does. Primary clause: the same-discipline share of co-bundled pairs is at least 70%.
Kill-dataset (verbatim)
Multi-text manuscript records in the NGMPP/NGMCP catalogue with work-discipline labels from the Pandit database; network statistics computed on the resulting co-occurrence graph.
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- Place & era tags — Assigned
- South Asia; Medieval Tagged by claude-sonnet-5 + claude-fable-5 (gate)
- Dating — Phenomenon
- Dated c. 800 CE – 1850 CE South Asian/Nepalese Sanskrit manuscript record (NGMPP/NGMCP colophon corpus), earliest securely dated exemplars c.9th c. CE, through the corpus's 1850 bound. Tagged by claude-sonnet-5 + claude-fable-5 (gate)
- Subject — Not yet reviewed
- Finer subject topic — Assigned
- Manuscript and scribal production Tagged by earlier curation lane (link provenance on record)
- Claim level — Assigned
- Record claim Tagged by earlier curation lane (link provenance on record)
- Method — Not yet reviewed
- Evidence source — Assigned
- Union catalogues Tagged by earlier curation lane (link provenance on record)
- Research stage — Idea — no test designed
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Provenance
Run: Fresh agent generation · model: claude-fable-5
Generated blind in a single Write with no reads, web access, or database queries; this is the second attempt for wave W14 after a prior instance died to a network error before writing its packet.
Novelty / leakage triage
anticipated in the literature — this exact test has never been run
Multi-text 'composite' manuscripts as fossilized working sets are recognized, and co-occurrence/network methods for texts exist, but extracting behavioural curricular modules (modularity above random; >=70% same-discipline co-bundling) from NGMPP multi-text records is un-run. Thin field.
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