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.