Pramāṇa · Why you can trust this

Why you can trust this

Curated sources, lineage, human review where available, and transparent confidence. AI is the interface; trusted knowledge remains the source.

Parampara is Jigyasa's name for how wisdom is curated, field-reviewed, and shown with honest confidence — process honesty for the MVP, not a public scholar free-for-all or certification theater.

What Parampara ships today

Early review rails turned internal process into demoable Trust Graph tooling. Seekers see honest badges and methodology. Advisors use invite-gated tools. Premium guided journeys package reviewed paths — Ask Saarthi stays free; sacred text is never the paywall.

  • Field-scoped badges

    Dated reviews list which fields were checked. Pending stays Pending — no vanity “fully verified” theater.

  • Invite-gated console lite

    Invited reviewers digitize the advisor packet into a ReviewPass. Not public scholar signup.

  • Advisor onboarding

    Invite link → Trusted Wisdom Network copy → first field-scoped digital review. Recruit attempts log on-device.

  • Guided journeys + premium unlock

    Packaged multi-step paths with free preview. Payment Link or unlock code for the full path. Ask stays free.

Guided journeysAdvisor onboardingConsole lite

Console and onboarding stay invite-gated. Links above open the gate UI — they are not open scholar signup.

Four states

  • Curated corpus

    A human-selected entry with source, reference, commentary, and practice. Keyword retrieval can ground a Sutra in that entry. On matched Trust Pack journeys, lineage may also show as source-detail fields (original, translation, commentary, application) — empty fields are omitted, never invented.

  • Model composition

    When enrich runs, understanding, wisdom, and reflection may be rewritten from the matched entry. Source, practice, citations, and source-detail fields stay locked to the corpus. Separate chips say when AI composition happened.

  • Not yet field-reviewed

    Most corpus rows — and four of twelve Trust Pack entries — have no dated field-scoped human review yet. That is not rejection; it means no scoped badge.

  • Field-reviewed

    A dated review lists which fields were checked. Today that is often source, reference, commentary, and application on a subset of the Trust Pack. It never means the full entry, full Trust Pack, or full corpus is verified. Thin original/translation concept labels are not claimed as verse-level review.

What badges mean

Example: Reviewed · source, reference, commentary, application · 2026-07-23Credit on current badges: Platform review (external advisor shortfall documented).

  • Date — when the field review was recorded.
  • Fields — only those listed were reviewed; other fields may still be pending.
  • Optional credit — e.g. platform review, or an advisor with consent.
  • Never “fully verified” unless every claimable field for that entry is listed.
  • Concept-label original/translation text is shown as lineage when present, but is not treated as verse-level review unless those fields appear on the badge.

Curated-vs-AI chips are a different vocabulary from field-review badges. They answer different questions.

Trust Pack scope

The front-door Trust Pack is a small Ready set of 12 entries with precise references. A CI / build guard fails if any pack id lacks a non-empty reference. Field reviews currently cover 8 of 12 pack entries (cold-demo lock 5 plus three more). Unreviewed pack entries stay Not yet field-reviewed — no vanity Reviewed chrome.

Source detail (lineage)

Matched journeys can show “Where this came from” with source, reference, and omit-empty lineage fields. That block answers where the answer came from; the dated badge answers which fields a human actually checked. Empty lineage fields are omitted — never padded with Pending theater.

How reviews happen

Reviews start from the advisor packet (entry id, fields checklist, claim boundaries), then additive corpus metadata. Cadence 6 ships an invite-gated console lite and advisor onboarding that digitize that checklist to a device-local ReviewPass and downloadable JSON patch — still not open scholar signup, and still not a live council on every answer. The shared packet lives in docs/ADVISOR_REVIEW_PACKET.md. Until an external advisor completes a pass, badges credit platform review honestly. Invited reviewers: /console/onboard · /console.

Claim boundaries

  • Curated is not the same as field-reviewed.
  • AI composition is not scholar approval.
  • One field reviewed is not a fully verified entry.
  • Eight of twelve pack badges is not a fully verified Trust Pack.
  • The Trust Pack is not the full corpus.
  • Source detail on a journey is corpus lineage — not an extra review claim.
  • There is no live Wisdom Council validating every answer.
  • Parampara MVP is invite-gated Trust Graph rails — not an open scholar marketplace or invented network scale.
  • Reviews today are platform-credited; invited advisors use invite-gated console lite (not public signup).

Digital Nalanda

Foundation · Wisdom OS — Knowledge Graph, Trust, Sources, Relationships, AI readiness

Digital Nalanda does not store answers. It builds WisdomNodes — trusted units with sources, relationships, and lineage — that power every experience on Jigyasa. Nalanda in the footer is the Reviewed Ask corpus browse — separate from Digital Nalanda, the Wisdom OS. Parampara is the Trust & Provenance layer on that foundation.

See it on a live Sutra: open the Trust Panel scholar row, or try Saarthi. For a packaged path, open guided journeys.