Sources
Every record on the map names where it comes from. This page gathers those namings in one place — the primary texts first, then the working library. Where sources disagree, the map says so on the record itself rather than smoothing it here.
Named on the map
Collected from the one hundred and forty-seven records, grouped by the system that cites them. A text appears once per system even when many records lean on it.
The tattva spine
- Ashtavakra Gita (absence of phalashruti); structural comparison with closing conventions
- Ashtavakra Gita (jivanmukta chapters); Bhagavad Gita II.54–72 (sthitaprajna with marks)
- Ashtavakra Gita (rejection of sadhana); cf. Yoga Sutra, Hathayogapradipika
- Ashtavakra Gita (waves, rope-snake); Advaita; Trika (appearance as real)
- Ashtavakra Gita (witness passages); Samkhya Karika (kaivalya as isolation)
- Ashtavakra Gita Ch. 1; cf. Bhagavad Gita (paths), Yoga Sutra (angas)
- Ashtavakra Gita Ch. 1–2; Vedantich dispute on krama-mukti vs sadyo-mukti
- Ashtavakra Gita Ch. 2 and later Janaka chapters; cf. Bhagavad Gita's sustained asymmetry
- Ashtavakra Gita; modern wellbeing reception
- Ashtavakra Gita; the graded-path reading as commentarial convention
- Ashtavakra Gita; the quietist reading as a documented reception pattern
- BPHS Ch. 11 (bhavas), Ch. 12–23 (significations); Bhava Chalit / Shripati: alternative house division
- BPHS Ch. 12–23 (bhava significations); ayurdaya / longevity material, Ch. 46 onward
- BPHS Ch. 12–23; Jaimini Sutra (chara karakas, Ch. 32 in the BPHS mapping — number not confirmed against a critical edition)
- BPHS Ch. 12–23; Ketu as mokshakaraka: commentarial and modern, not BPHS
- BPHS Ch. 12–23; arishta material; melothesia via Greek and European medical astrology
- BPHS Ch. 12–23; arudha padas, BPHS Ch. 29 (Jaimini system)
- BPHS Ch. 12–23; digbala; Jaimini profession method
- BPHS Ch. 12–23; karaka doctrine
- BPHS Ch. 12–23; karaka doctrine, Sun and the ninth
- BPHS Ch. 12–23; upachaya and bhavat bhavam counting
- BPHS Ch. 12–23; upachaya classification
- BPHS Ch. 12–23; ayurdaya material and its commentarial cautions
- Mahabharata (Ashtavakra); Brihadaranyaka Upanishad (Janaka); dating of the Ashtavakra Gita: contested
- Samkhya Karika (indriya as subtle power, not organ)
- Samkhya Karika (karmendriyas and their elemental pairings)
- Samkhya Karika (mahat/buddhi); Taittiriya Upanishad II (mahat as foundation)
- Samkhya Karika (manas as eleventh indriya); Vedanta (antahkarana); Nyaya (manas as anu)
- Samkhya Karika (plurality of purushas); Advaita (atman = brahman); Trika (Shiva as agent)
- Samkhya Karika (prakriti as avyakta, dualism); Advaita and Trika (non-dual closure)
- Samkhya Karika (tanmatra→mahabhuta, accumulation); Vedanta (panchhikarana)
- Samkhya Karika (three gunas); Charaka Samhita (rajas and tamas as manasa doshas)
- Samkhya Karika (threefold antahkarana); Taittiriya Upanishad II; later Vedanta (fourfold with chitta)
- Samkhya Karika; Bhagavad Gita Ch. 14, 17–18; Charaka Samhita
- Samkhya Karika; Bhagavad Gita Ch. 14; Trika (contraction as divine act)
- Taittiriya Upanishad II (mahat); Samkhya Karika (mahat/buddhi)
- Taittiriya Upanishad II; Advaita commentarial tradition; cf. Ashtavakra Gita
- Taittiriya Upanishad II; Charaka Samhita (vata subtypes); Hathayogapradipika
- Taittiriya Upanishad II; Samkhya Karika (antahkarana); mapping: modern harmonisation
- Taittiriya Upanishad II; sharira-traya mapping: later Vedantich commentary
- Tantraloka; Malinivijayottara; Sadashiva as the ichha-dominant tattva
- Tantraloka; Malinivijayottara; Ishvara as the jnana-dominant tattva
- Tantraloka; Malinivijayottara; Shuddhavidya as the kriya-dominant tattva
- Tantraloka; Pratyabhijnahridaya of Kshemaraja; Malinivijayottara Tantra
- Tantraloka; Pratyabhijnahridaya sutras 4–9; contrast: Advaita’s maya
- Tantraloka; Pratyabhijnahridaya; Svachhanda Tantra
- Tantraloka; Pratyabhijnahridaya; comparative: Rig Veda 10.129.4
- Tantraloka; Ishvarapratyabhijnakarika of Utpaladeva; Yoginihridaya 1.56–57 on vimarsha
- Trika (kanchukas); Advaita (maya as anirvachaniya); Samkhya Karika (no maya)
- Trika 36-tattva scheme; Samkhya Karika (25 tattvas)
- Shrichakra / Shaiva bindu; Amritasiddhi (bindu as substance); Samkhya Karika (no bindu)
The five elements
- Samkhya Karika (accumulation, tamas); Bhagavad Gita Ch. 14; Trika (contraction)
- Samkhya Karika; Charaka Samhita (agni); Hathayogapradipika; BPHS (elemental classification)
- Samkhya Karika; Charaka Samhita (dosha composition)
- Samkhya Karika; Charaka Samhita (vata); Taittiriya Upanishad II and Hathayogapradipika (vayus)
- Samkhya Karika; Vaisheshika Sutra (akasha as eternal substance)
Jyotisha
- BPHS Ch. 3 (Graha-guna-svarupa); Brihat Jataka 2; Saravali 4 — number not confirmed against a critical edition [BPHS references follow the 97-chapter Santhanam recension]
- BPHS Ch. 3 (chhaya grahas), Ch. 46 — number not confirmed against a critical edition; exaltation and co-rulership: post-classical, authority-dependent | element assignment: practitioner extension — not given a tattva by BPHS Ch. 3 v. 20, which assigns only the five grahas from Bhauma onward [BPHS references follow the 97-chapter Santhanam recension]
- BPHS Ch. 3 (exaltation degrees); comparative: Hellenistic exaltations
- BPHS Ch. 3 (exaltation, mulatrikona), Ch. 4
- BPHS Ch. 3 (exaltations), Ch. 4
- BPHS Ch. 3 (graha natures), 3.31 (dhatu), the graha-bala chapters (combustion — chapter not confirmed); Jaimini Sutra (chara karakas) | element assignment: practitioner extension — not given a tattva by BPHS Ch. 3 v. 20, which assigns only the five grahas from Bhauma onward [BPHS references follow the 97-chapter Santhanam recension]
- BPHS Ch. 3 v. 31 [97-chapter Santhanam recension]; contrast: Charaka Samhita and Sushruta Samhita on the sapta-dhatu
- BPHS Ch. 3, 3.31 (dhatu), Ch. 46 (Vimshottari) | element assignment: practitioner extension — not given a tattva by BPHS Ch. 3 v. 20, which assigns only the five grahas from Bhauma onward [BPHS references follow the 97-chapter Santhanam recension]
- BPHS Ch. 3, 3.31, Ch. 26 (drishti); Brihat Jataka; Jaimini Sutra [BPHS references follow the 97-chapter Santhanam recension]
- BPHS Ch. 3, 3.31, Ch. 26 (drishti); sade sati by transit [BPHS references follow the 97-chapter Santhanam recension]
- BPHS Ch. 3, 3.31, Ch. 46 — number not confirmed against a critical edition; Charaka Samhita (sapta-dhatu) [BPHS references follow the 97-chapter Santhanam recension]
- BPHS Ch. 3, 3.31, the graha-bala chapters (combustion — chapter not confirmed); Brihat Jataka [BPHS references follow the 97-chapter Santhanam recension]
- BPHS Ch. 3, Ch. 39 (nichabhanga) — number not confirmed against a critical edition, Ch. 4
- BPHS Ch. 3, Ch. 46 — number not confirmed against a critical edition; mokshakaraka: commentarial and modern, not BPHS | element assignment: practitioner extension — not given a tattva by BPHS Ch. 3 v. 20, which assigns only the five grahas from Bhauma onward [BPHS references follow the 97-chapter Santhanam recension]
- BPHS Ch. 3, verse 20 (agni-bhumi-nabhas-toya-vayavah — the tattvas of the five grahas from Bhauma onward); karaka doctrine, BPHS bhava chapters (Ch. 12–23) [BPHS references follow the 97-chapter Santhanam recension]
- BPHS Ch. 3–4 (Kalapurusha); developmental reading: interpretive, modern presentation
- BPHS Ch. 3–4; Ketu co-rulership: living-tradition convention, not BPHS
- BPHS Ch. 3–4; Yavanajataka; comparative: Hellenistic triplicity scheme
- BPHS Ch. 3–4; comparative: Hellenistic rulership order
- BPHS Ch. 3–4; galactic-centre ayanamshas: twentieth-century, post-classical
- BPHS Ch. 3–4; outer-planet rulerships: Western, post-1781, not adopted in Jyotisha
- BPHS Ch. 3–4; upachaya classification
- BPHS Ch. 4, Ch. 26 (drishti); Jaimini Sutra (rashi drishti)
- BPHS Ch. 4; Brihat Jataka Ch. 1 [BPHS references follow the 97-chapter Santhanam recension]
- Navagraha mandala as used in pratishtha and navagraha-shanti ritual; Brihat Samhita on directional attribution; Vastu texts on the dik-palas
- Taittiriya Samhita 4.4.10 (27 mansions); Atharvaveda 19.7 (28, with Abhijit); BPHS; Surya Siddhanta
Ayurveda
- Ashtanga Hridaya (ashraya-ashrayi, vata-asthi as viruddha)
- Charaka Samhita (agni states)
- Charaka Samhita (agni states); cf. manasa doshas
- Charaka Samhita (agni states); modern diagnostic pairings: post-classical
- Charaka Samhita (agni states, ama); 'toxins' rendering: modern
- Charaka Samhita (malas and their functions)
- Charaka Samhita (malas, dhatu-malas)
- Charaka Samhita (mutra); mutra pariksha / taila bindu: medieval development
- Charaka Samhita (ojas); the ojas-tejas-prana triad as a set: largely modern systematisation
- Charaka Samhita (shukra, ojas); BPHS 3.31; Amritasiddhi (bindu)
- Charaka Samhita, Chikitsasthana 15 (thirteen agnis); Ashtanga Hridaya; Hathayogapradipika (navel fire)
- Charaka Samhita, Chikitsasthana 15; Ashtanga Hridaya, Sutrasthana 12
- Charaka Samhita, Chikitsasthana 15; BPHS 3.31 (snayu)
- Charaka Samhita, Chikitsasthana 15; Sushruta Samhita, Sutrasthana 14 (poshana nyaya)
- Charaka Samhita, Chikitsasthana 15; Samkhya Karika (mahabhuta); Vedanta (panchhikarana)
- Charaka Samhita, Chikitsasthana; Sushruta Samhita, Sutrasthana 14 (dhatu poshana nyaya)
- Charaka Samhita, Sutrasthana 17; Sushruta Samhita, Sutrasthana 15
- Charaka Samhita, Sutrasthana 1; Vaisheshika Sutra (samanya, vishesha as padarthas)
- Charaka Samhita, Sutrasthana; Ashtanga Hridaya, Sutrasthana 1; comparative: Amritasiddhi
- Charaka Samhita, Vimanasthana (prakriti); Samkhya Karika (prakriti as avyakta)
- Charaka Samhita; Ashtanga Hridaya (ashraya ashrayi); BPHS 3.31
- Charaka Samhita; Ashtanga Hridaya; comparative: Samkhya Karika, Trika tattva scheme
- Charaka Samhita; Ashtanga Hridaya; comparative: Samkhya tejas as element
- Charaka Samhita; Ashtanga Hridaya; comparative: prana-vayu in the yogic corpus
- Charaka Samhita; BPHS 3.31 (majja → Mars)
- Charaka Samhita; BPHS 3.31 (vasa/medas → Jupiter)
- Charaka Samhita; Sushruta Samhita (rakta); Ashtanga Hridaya Su. 1; BPHS 3.31
- Charaka Samhita; Sushruta Samhita (rakta); Ashtanga Hridaya, Sutrasthana 1
- Commentarial literature on dhatu poshana nyaya
- Sushruta Samhita (khavaigunya); commentarial discussion of causation
- Sushruta Samhita, Sutrasthana (bheda)
- Sushruta Samhita, Sutrasthana (sammurchhana)
- Sushruta Samhita, Sutrasthana (vyakti)
- Sushruta Samhita, Sutrasthana (shatkriyakala)
- Sushruta Samhita, Sutrasthana (shatkriyakala); Charaka Samhita (different organisation)
- Sushruta Samhita, Sutrasthana 14
- Sushruta Samhita, Sutrasthana 14; commentarial harmonisations
- Sushruta Samhita, Sutrasthana 14; commentarial literature on dhatu poshana
- Sushruta Samhita, Sutrasthana; khavaigunya as constraint
- Sushruta Samhita, Sutrasthana; khavaigunya, dosha-dushya sammurchhana
Yoga
- Charaka Samhita (apana); Hathayogapradipika Ch. 3 (mudras, reversal of apana)
- Charaka Samhita (samana, agni); Hathayogapradipika; Shat-chakra-nirupana (manipura)
- Charaka Samhita (vyana); Upanishadich prana material
- Hathayogapradipika (svara / nostril alternation); interpretive framework distinguished from observation
- Hathayogapradipika; Amritasiddhi (bindu, no kundalini, no chakras)
- Hathayogapradipika; Shiva Samhita (nadi counts); autonomic identification: twentieth-century
- Taittiriya Upanishad II; Charaka Samhita (vata subtypes); Hathayogapradipika Ch. 2
- Upanishadich prana material; Charaka Samhita (udana); Hathayogapradipika
- Yoga Sutra I.2, II.7–8
- Yoga Sutra II.1, II.32, I.24 (ishvara); commentarial dispute on ishvara's status
- Yoga Sutra II.29–30 (anga, mahavrata); staircase reading: commentarial and modern
- Yoga Sutra II.3–5; Advaita (avidya as superimposition); Buddhist (avidya as first nidana)
- Yoga Sutra II.46–48; Hathayogapradipika; Gheranda Samhita; twentieth-century development: Krishnamacharya and Indian physical culture
- Yoga Sutra II.49–52; Hathayogapradipika Ch. 2; Amritasiddhi
- Yoga Sutra II.54–55; Samkhya Karika (indriyas)
- Yoga Sutra II.6; Samkhya Karika (ahamkara as tattva)
- Yoga Sutra II.7; Trika (raga as kanchuka)
- Yoga Sutra II.9; commentarial reading as evidence of prior existence
- Yoga Sutra III.1–4 (samyama); I.17–18 (samprajnata / asamprajnata)
- Yoga Sutra III.2; comparative: Buddhist dhyana / chán / zen
- Yoga Sutra III.3, III.37, IV (kaivalya); Advaita (non-dual liberation)
- Shat-chakra-nirupana (16th c.); Avalon 1919; Leadbeater 1927; Hills 1977; Amritasiddhi (no chakras)
- Shat-chakra-nirupana (six centres); varying counts across the tantric corpus
- Shat-chakra-nirupana; Hathayogapradipika (khechari); Samkhya Karika (tattva order)
- Shat-chakra-nirupana; Hathayogapradipika Ch. 4 (nada); Amritasiddhi (bindu)
- Shat-chakra-nirupana; Hathayogapradipika; Gheranda Samhita; Charaka Samhita (agni)
- Shat-chakra-nirupana; Leadbeater 1927; Hills 1977
- Shat-chakra-nirupana; chakra-dosha mapping: modern synthesis, no classical source
Vastu
- Brihat Samhita (vastu chapters); Mayamata and Manasara (shilpa literature); vastu-purusha-mandala
- Brihat Samhita; Mayamata; Manasara — differing assignments
- Brihat Samhita; Vedic Nirriti; shilpa literature on the mandala
- Brihat Samhita; vastu-purusha-mandala; cf. Shrichakra bindu, Samkhya purusha
- Brihat Samhita; shilpa literature; the practical reading: modern reconstruction
- Puranich and ritual dikpala literature; Brihat Samhita (vastu application)
- Puranich dikpala literature (Kubera); Brihat Samhita
- Puranich dikpala literature (Yama); Brihat Samhita; the 'inauspicious' rendering: modern
- Vedic Varuna (rita, later waters); dikpala literature; Brihat Samhita
The senses
- Samkhya Karika (accumulation of tanmatras)
- Samkhya Karika (gandha, accumulation); the olfaction parallel: modern resonance, not classical claim
- Samkhya Karika (rupa as tanmatra); Buddhist Abhidharma (rupa-skandha)
- Samkhya Karika (tanmatra sequence); Mimamsa (shabda as eternal, apaurusheya Veda)
- Samkhya Karika; Charaka Samhita (rasa dhatu, six rasas); Natyashastra (rasa in aesthetics); rasashastra (mercury)
Editions and libraries
Sanskrit texts are checked against the GRETIL archive and the Muktabodha Indological Research Institute's IAST library before a chapter-and-verse citation is locked; the Ashtavakra Gita's Devanagari was transliterated from the sanskritdocuments ITX source. Brihat Parashara Hora Shastra references follow the received Parashari corpus — "classical" for BPHS means within that corpus, not demonstrably ancient, and the map marks the difference wherever it matters. Chart computation runs on the Swiss Ephemeris with the Lahiri ayanamsha, the Indian national standard; why that is a choice rather than a fact is the Fork.
How claims are tagged
Three tags run through the whole site. Classical — the claim stands in a named text, cited. Later addition — a modern overlay presented honestly as one, however popular. Sources differ — the tradition itself holds more than one account, and the record reports the disagreement instead of resolving it. The deeper you read, the more the records separate this from that rather than declaring this is that.
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Yoga → Amritasiddhi · Shiva · Udana-vayu · Dhyana · Khechari
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