Brahma presents Indian cultural and devotional material as structured knowledge for study and practice. This page explains what our records can establish, what remains under review, and how to report a correction. It does not claim that every record has the same level of source, translation, rights, or editorial evidence.
1. What a Brahma record may contain
A record may include original-script text, transliteration, a translation or explanation, a named source or source URL, language information, relationships to other records, and lifecycle or review metadata. We publish only the fields actually present for that record; missing authors, editions, reviewers, dates, and citations are not invented for display or structured data.
2. Original text, transliteration, and translation
These are separate evidence layers. Transliteration helps a reader pronounce a script but is not itself a translation. A translation or explanation is presented separately from the source verse. When a layer is unavailable, the page should state or reflect that gap rather than silently substitute generated text.
3. Sources and provenance
Source names, URLs, editions, passage locations, and record relationships are shown only when the underlying record contains them. A link between two records is not presented as a verified textual claim unless its supporting source or verification data is also present. Catalog records without edition or hierarchy evidence remain catalog records; they are not labelled as verified book editions.
4. Review status and subject-matter claims
Some records are still pending human editorial review. Brahma does not convert a technical validation status into a claim of theological, historical, linguistic, or scholarly approval. Where a reviewer and review date are absent from the record, we do not add a fictional reviewer or date to the page or its Schema.org markup.
5. AI-assisted material
AI-assisted descriptions or imported summaries may help identify records that need enrichment, but they are not treated as traditional authority or human-reviewed scholarship by default. We exclude unverified AI-generated claims from public structured data and avoid using them as the sole factual description when their source or fit cannot be established.
6. Images and rights
Traditional texts may be public domain while a modern translation, recording, illustration, photograph, or edition has separate rights. When image or media rights are unclear, that asset is not used as a claim of licensed provenance in search markup. Rights status should be resolved record by record.
7. Language and cultural context
Brahma serves an Indian audience across English, Hindi, Sanskrit, and other Indian-language traditions. We preserve original script where available and distinguish language values in the record. We do not publish hreflang alternatives unless a genuinely equivalent page exists at a separate language URL.
8. Corrections and contributions
If you find a textual, transliteration, translation, source, attribution, relationship, or rights error, email hello@brah.ma. Include the page URL, the exact passage or field, the proposed correction, and a reliable source where possible. Material changes should update the affected record and its public metadata together.
9. Scope
Brahma is a cultural technology platform, not a substitute for qualified religious, historical, linguistic, legal, or medical advice. Practices and interpretations can differ across sampradayas, regions, languages, and lineages; a page should make that context clear when the underlying evidence supports it.