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Methodology & corrections

How every page here is written, what its status means, how we tell tradition from documented history, and every correction we have made.

What this site is

Hindu History tells the history of Hindus and Bharat from the Vedic rishis to the present day, together with the sacred texts, temples and traditions that carry it. Every entity page lists the sources it was written from.

How pages are written

Pages are drafted with AI assistance, working from the sources named on each page: inscriptions, excavation reports, chronicles, standard reference works and the texts themselves. Drafts are then checked in passes against those sources; facts that could not be confirmed are left out or listed for review rather than invented.

A large part of the site has not yet been reviewed line by line by a subject expert, and every page says so honestly. Open questions are kept in an internal review list and worked through over time.

What a page’s status means

AI-drafted: written with AI assistance from the listed sources; not yet reviewed line by line by an expert. This is the default, and no page is marked otherwise without a real review.

Checked: the facts on the page have been checked against the listed sources.

Expert-reviewed: a subject expert has reviewed the page.

Tradition and documented history

Itihasa and Purana are told with reverence as the tradition records them and are never called myth. Where a date comes from the tradition’s own count it is marked “traditional reckoning”; dates from inscriptions, coins and excavation are given with their evidence.

Contested history is stated plainly with its sources and the year it happened, without hatred toward anyone living today. Where traditions or scholars differ, the page says so rather than choosing silently.

Texts, images and films

Complete texts in the reader come from Wikisource (CC BY-SA) and other named public-domain editions; the source of every chapter is linked on its page. Chapter summaries and verse meanings are our own, written with AI assistance from those texts. Old English translations shown beside the text (for example M. N. Dutt’s Ramayana, 1891 to 1894) are public domain.

Summaries report what each text says, in the text’s own voice (“the text holds…”), including passages that are harsh or sectarian, such as a Purana ranking one deva above another or rules of varna. Reporting a passage is not endorsing it, and nothing is softened or left out to make a text more agreeable.

Photographs are free-licensed files from Wikimedia Commons, credited on each page. Films are embedded from official channels and play from YouTube.

Corrections

When an error is found it is corrected, and corrections to the record are listed here with their date.

  1. 1 Nov 2026Chandogya Upanishad 8.1.6 and 8.8.4: the source text had lost a negative (अननुविद्य), which reversed the teaching. Restored to the standard reading.
  2. 1 Nov 2026Valmiki Ramayana, Aranya Kanda, sarga 16: the Wikisource page carried the text of sarga 14. Replaced with the correct sarga 16.
  3. 1 Nov 2026Ramcharitmanas: modern Hindi commentary that had entered the verse text (Ayodhya Kanda 44, 51, 277; Bala Kanda 288) removed; the damaged Lanka Kanda 106 restored after a full proofread against other editions.
  4. 1 Nov 2026Rigveda: sukta headers (rishi, devata, metre) corrected where the source repeated the next sukta’s header (1.20, 1.39, 1.99, 7.65, 7.81).
  5. 1 Nov 2026Places: Gurdwara Sis Ganj Sahib was listed twice; the two records were merged and the old address forwards.
  6. 1 Nov 2026Mahabharata: Udyoga Parva adhyaya 116 and Shanti Parva 25ब, missing from the source edition, added. Brahma Sutra 4.4.15: missing first letter restored.
  7. 30 Oct 2026Mahabharata: editor’s commentary notes that had entered 8 verses of the Bhishma and Shalya Parvas removed.