Appendices knock where the code ends

Claim (verbatim)

Within the Rigveda's family books (mandalas 2–7), hymns run in deity series ordered by descending hymn length — an arrangement that works as an integrity code: an insertion either obeys the ordering and stays invisible or breaks monotonicity and is flagged. Whoever added material under such a code faced the choice all interpolators face, and the path of least resistance is the same everywhere: attach at the boundaries, where the code has no grip. The Rigveda's apocrypha should therefore knock at the series doors, and internal order-violations should mark the interior breaches. Prediction: hymns violating length-monotonicity within their deity series in mandalas 2–7 will sit at series-final positions at a rate at least twice uniform expectation, and at least 80% of the khila attachment points recorded in the transmission will fall at series or mandala boundaries rather than series interiors (primary clause: the twofold series-final clustering of violations; the verdict follows it). Exact computation: from the freely downloadable van Nooten–Holland metrically restored Rigveda text, compute hymn lengths, detect within-series monotonicity violations, and map their positions; take khila attachment points from Scheftelowitz's edition. Kill: the van Nooten and Holland metrically restored electronic Rigveda (openly distributed) and Scheftelowitz's Die Apokryphen des Rgveda (1906, public domain) for the khilani.

Prediction clause (verbatim)

Prediction: hymns violating length-monotonicity within their deity series in mandalas 2–7 will sit at series-final positions at a rate at least twice uniform expectation, and at least 80% of the khila attachment points recorded in the transmission will fall at series or mandala boundaries rather than series interiors (primary clause: the twofold series-final clustering of violations; the verdict follows it). Exact computation: from the freely downloadable van Nooten–Holland metrically restored Rigveda text, compute hymn lengths, detect within-series monotonicity violations, and map their positions; take khila attachment points from Scheftelowitz's edition.

Kill-dataset (verbatim)

Kill: the van Nooten and Holland metrically restored electronic Rigveda (openly distributed) and Scheftelowitz's Die Apokryphen des Rgveda (1906, public domain) for the khilani.

Novelty / leakage triage

anticipated in the literature — this exact test has never been run

The descending-length arrangement of the Rigveda's family-book deity series is Oldenberg's classic principle, and the boundary-attachment of the khilani is known (Scheftelowitz), so the framework is established; but the specific test (monotonicity-violating hymns clustering series-final at >=2x expectation; >=80% of khila attachment points at boundaries) was not located.

• H. Oldenberg, Prolegomena (1888) / Die Hymnen des Rigveda; J. Scheftelowitz, Die Apokryphen des Rgveda (1906)

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