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browse_work Read-only

Walk a work's structure in order: a work gives its sections, a section its chapters, a chapter its verses (label and translation, in pages). Use it when the user wants to read a chapter or a book through, asks what comes after a verse, or what a book contains; search_texts cannot do that. Three steps, each named in the reply of the one before: `work` alone lists the sections; add `section` for its chapters; add `chapter` (the `index` from the listing) for its verses. Every reply carries `next`, the arguments of the call that continues. To quote a verse, call get_verse with its `unit_id`: it returns the citation and version hash.

workstring, required

A work slug, as list_works gives it.

pageinteger

Which page of a section's chapters. Default 1.

limitinteger

Verses per page. Default 20, at most 50.

offsetinteger

Where in the chapter to start, counting verses from 0. Default 0.

chapterinteger

The chapter's `index` in the section's listing; it opens that chapter's verses.

sectionstring

A section slug from the work's listing (a parva, a canto, an upaniṣad).

languagestring

Preferred language of the translations returned. Not a filter: works that exist only in Russian are returned in Russian, and each result says which language it is actually in. Default: en.

page_sizeinteger

Chapters per page. Default 50, at most 100.

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browse_work Read-only

workstring, required

A work slug, as list_works gives it.

pageinteger

Which page of a section's chapters. Default 1.

limitinteger

Verses per page. Default 20, at most 50.

offsetinteger

Where in the chapter to start, counting verses from 0. Default 0.

chapterinteger

The chapter's `index` in the section's listing; it opens that chapter's verses.

sectionstring

A section slug from the work's listing (a parva, a canto, an upaniṣad).

languagestring

Preferred language of the translations returned. Not a filter: works that exist only in Russian are returned in Russian, and each result says which language it is actually in. Default: en.

page_sizeinteger

Chapters per page. Default 50, at most 100.

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browse_work

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Argument	Type	Description
page	integer	Which page of a section's chapters. Default 1.
work*	string	A work slug, as list_works gives it.
limit	integer	Verses per page. Default 20, at most 50.
offset	integer	Where in the chapter to start, counting verses from 0. Default 0.
chapter	integer	The chapter's `index` in the section's listing; it opens that chapter's verses.
section	string	A section slug from the work's listing (a parva, a canto, an upaniṣad).
language	string	Preferred language of the translations returned. Not a filter: works that exist only in Russian are returned in Russian, and each result says which language it is actually in. Default: en.
page_size	integer	Chapters per page. Default 50, at most 100.

Input schema (JSON)

{
  "type": "object",
  "$schema": "http://json-schema.org/draft-07/schema#",
  "required": [
    "work"
  ],
  "properties": {
    "page": {
      "type": "integer",
      "maximum": 9007199254740991,
      "minimum": 1,
      "description": "Which page of a section's chapters. Default 1."
    },
    "work": {
      "type": "string",
      "minLength": 1,
      "description": "A work slug, as list_works gives it."
    },
    "limit": {
      "type": "integer",
      "maximum": 50,
      "minimum": 1,
      "description": "Verses per page. Default 20, at most 50."
    },
    "offset": {
      "type": "integer",
      "maximum": 9007199254740991,
      "minimum": 0,
      "description": "Where in the chapter to start, counting verses from 0. Default 0."
    },
    "chapter": {
      "type": "integer",
      "maximum": 9007199254740991,
      "minimum": 1,
      "description": "The chapter's `index` in the section's listing; it opens that chapter's verses."
    },
    "section": {
      "type": "string",
      "minLength": 1,
      "description": "A section slug from the work's listing (a parva, a canto, an upaniṣad)."
    },
    "language": {
      "enum": [
        "ru",
        "en",
        "es",
        "hi",
        "zh"
      ],
      "type": "string",
      "description": "Preferred language of the translations returned. Not a filter: works that exist only in Russian are returned in Russian, and each result says which language it is actually in. Default: en."
    },
    "page_size": {
      "type": "integer",
      "maximum": 100,
      "minimum": 1,
      "description": "Chapters per page. Default 50, at most 100."
    }
  }
}

find_similar_verses

Given a verse, find other passages in the library that say something close to it — by meaning, not by shared words. Start here when you already have a verse; when you only have words, a question or a term, use search_texts. Use it to check whether a teaching appears elsewhere before presenting it as the tradition's position, to gather parallel places, or to see how different works treat one subject. Set `exclude_same_work` when you want an independent witness: the next verse of the same chapter is nearly always similar and proves nothing. An empty result is a real answer — it means the library says this in one place only.

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Argument	Type	Description
limit	integer	Passages to return. Default 8.
verse*	string	A citation ("BG 2.47") or a `unit_id` from an earlier result.
language	string	Preferred language of the translations returned. Not a filter: works that exist only in Russian are returned in Russian, and each result says which language it is actually in. Default: en.
exclude_same_work	boolean	Skip passages from the same work, so what comes back corroborates rather than repeats. Default false.

Input schema (JSON)

{
  "type": "object",
  "$schema": "http://json-schema.org/draft-07/schema#",
  "required": [
    "verse"
  ],
  "properties": {
    "limit": {
      "type": "integer",
      "maximum": 20,
      "minimum": 1,
      "description": "Passages to return. Default 8."
    },
    "verse": {
      "type": "string",
      "minLength": 1,
      "description": "A citation (\"BG 2.47\") or a `unit_id` from an earlier result."
    },
    "language": {
      "enum": [
        "ru",
        "en",
        "es",
        "hi",
        "zh"
      ],
      "type": "string",
      "description": "Preferred language of the translations returned. Not a filter: works that exist only in Russian are returned in Russian, and each result says which language it is actually in. Default: en."
    },
    "exclude_same_work": {
      "type": "boolean",
      "description": "Skip passages from the same work, so what comes back corroborates rather than repeats. Default false."
    }
  }
}

get_vaishnava_calendar

Ekadashi fasts, festivals and the appearance and disappearance days of the acharyas in the Gaudiya Vaishnava calendar, computed for one place. Call it for any question about when an Ekadashi or a festival falls, or when to break a fast. The place is required and matters: the fast day is decided by the tithi at local sunrise, and the time to break the fast is minutes wide and different in every city. Ask the user where they are rather than guessing. Every observance links to a page with its story and the verses behind it.

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Argument	Type	Description
days	integer	How many days ahead, from today at the place. Default 30.
language	string	Preferred language of the translations returned. Not a filter: works that exist only in Russian are returned in Russian, and each result says which language it is actually in. Default: en.
latitude*	number	Latitude of the place, degrees.
timezone*	string	IANA timezone, e.g. "Europe/Moscow".
longitude*	number	Longitude of the place, degrees.
place_name	string	The place's name, echoed back.

Input schema (JSON)

get_verse

Fetch one verse whole: the Sanskrit in Devanāgarī and IAST, the word-by-word breakdown with the meaning each word carries in this passage, the literary translation, the commentary, and optionally the surrounding verses. Call it after search_texts when you are going to quote, and whenever the user names a verse. The word-by-word table is what lets you explain or re-translate a line honestly instead of trusting a finished translation. Accepts citations as people write them, not only internal ids. To read a chapter or a whole book in order, use browse_work. To read on around one verse, call this again with `context` 5 and then with the `unit_id` of the last neighbour marked "after"; each reply carries the five verses on either side with their translations.

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Argument	Type	Description
verse*	string	A citation — "BG 2.47", "Бхагавад-гита 2.47", "Mahabharata 1.1.1", "Upanishads Mundaka 2.2.8" — or a `unit_id` from an earlier result.
context	integer	Verses to include either side, within the same chapter. Use 1–2 when the argument depends on what surrounds the verse. Default 0.
language	string	Preferred language of the translations returned. Not a filter: works that exist only in Russian are returned in Russian, and each result says which language it is actually in. Default: en.

Input schema (JSON)

{
  "type": "object",
  "$schema": "http://json-schema.org/draft-07/schema#",
  "required": [
    "verse"
  ],
  "properties": {
    "verse": {
      "type": "string",
      "minLength": 1,
      "description": "A citation — \"BG 2.47\", \"Бхагавад-гита 2.47\", \"Mahabharata 1.1.1\", \"Upanishads Mundaka 2.2.8\" — or a `unit_id` from an earlier result."
    },
    "context": {
      "type": "integer",
      "maximum": 5,
      "minimum": 0,
      "description": "Verses to include either side, within the same chapter. Use 1–2 when the argument depends on what surrounds the verse. Default 0."
    },
    "language": {
      "enum": [
        "ru",
        "en",
        "es",
        "hi",
        "zh"
      ],
      "type": "string",
      "description": "Preferred language of the translations returned. Not a filter: works that exist only in Russian are returned in Russian, and each result says which language it is actually in. Default: en."
    }
  }
}

list_authors

List the authors the tradition names, grouped by period, each with a short note and the books credited to them. Call it when the user asks who wrote something, or wants the works of one acharya; pass the author's `id` to list_works to see the books. Filter by `era`: shruti, classical, caitanya, successors, modern.

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Argument	Type	Description
era	string	Only the authors of this period.
language	string	Preferred language of the translations returned. Not a filter: works that exist only in Russian are returned in Russian, and each result says which language it is actually in. Default: en.

Input schema (JSON)

{
  "type": "object",
  "$schema": "http://json-schema.org/draft-07/schema#",
  "properties": {
    "era": {
      "enum": [
        "shruti",
        "classical",
        "caitanya",
        "successors",
        "modern"
      ],
      "type": "string",
      "description": "Only the authors of this period."
    },
    "language": {
      "enum": [
        "ru",
        "en",
        "es",
        "hi",
        "zh"
      ],
      "type": "string",
      "description": "Preferred language of the translations returned. Not a filter: works that exist only in Russian are returned in Russian, and each result says which language it is actually in. Default: en."
    }
  }
}

list_works

List the works with their sizes, shelf, author and available languages. Call it at the start of a conversation about scripture, or when you need work slugs for filtering. The list is short by default: no descriptions. Narrow it with `category` (a shelf: itihasa, purana, upanishad, vedanta, samhita, shastra, kavya, shruti, smriti; `shruti` is the upanishad shelf, `smriti` the itihasa and purana shelves) or with `author` (an id from list_authors). Set `include_descriptions` for a paragraph on each work. It also tells you what is not translated: several works exist only in Russian. Check `languages` before promising the user an English text.

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Argument	Type	Description
author	string	Only the works credited to this author id (see list_authors).
category	string	Only the works on this shelf.
language	string	Preferred language of the translations returned. Not a filter: works that exist only in Russian are returned in Russian, and each result says which language it is actually in. Default: en.
include_descriptions	boolean	Add a paragraph describing each work. Default false.

Input schema (JSON)

{
  "type": "object",
  "$schema": "http://json-schema.org/draft-07/schema#",
  "properties": {
    "author": {
      "type": "string",
      "minLength": 1,
      "description": "Only the works credited to this author id (see list_authors)."
    },
    "category": {
      "enum": [
        "itihasa",
        "purana",
        "upanishad",
        "vedanta",
        "samhita",
        "shastra",
        "kavya",
        "shruti",
        "smriti"
      ],
      "type": "string",
      "description": "Only the works on this shelf."
    },
    "language": {
      "enum": [
        "ru",
        "en",
        "es",
        "hi",
        "zh"
      ],
      "type": "string",
      "description": "Preferred language of the translations returned. Not a filter: works that exist only in Russian are returned in Russian, and each result says which language it is actually in. Default: en."
    },
    "include_descriptions": {
      "type": "boolean",
      "description": "Add a paragraph describing each work. Default false."
    }
  }
}

lookup_sanskrit_term

Look up a Sanskrit word: its spellings across scripts, the meanings it carries in this corpus, how many verses gloss it, and examples of where it occurs. Built from the word-by-word breakdowns of some 30 000 verses, so these are the meanings translators actually assigned to the word in these texts — not a lexicon's list of everything it could mean. Use it before translating a term yourself, and whenever the user asks what a word means.

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Argument	Type	Description
term*	string	In IAST (śeṣa, diacritics optional) or Devanāgarī (शेष). A word written in another script is not in this dictionary — the headwords are Sanskrit — but search_texts will still find it in the prose.
examples	integer	Verses to cite as examples. Default 5.
language	string	Preferred language of the translations returned. Not a filter: works that exist only in Russian are returned in Russian, and each result says which language it is actually in. Default: en.

Input schema (JSON)

{
  "type": "object",
  "$schema": "http://json-schema.org/draft-07/schema#",
  "required": [
    "term"
  ],
  "properties": {
    "term": {
      "type": "string",
      "minLength": 1,
      "description": "In IAST (śeṣa, diacritics optional) or Devanāgarī (शेष). A word written in another script is not in this dictionary — the headwords are Sanskrit — but search_texts will still find it in the prose."
    },
    "examples": {
      "type": "integer",
      "maximum": 20,
      "minimum": 0,
      "description": "Verses to cite as examples. Default 5."
    },
    "language": {
      "enum": [
        "ru",
        "en",
        "es",
        "hi",
        "zh"
      ],
      "type": "string",
      "description": "Preferred language of the translations returned. Not a filter: works that exist only in Russian are returned in Russian, and each result says which language it is actually in. Default: en."
    }
  }
}

search_texts

Search the Vedaword library of Sanskrit scripture by meaning as well as by wording, so a paraphrased question works and a Sanskrit term reaches passages written in another script. This is the first thing to call for any factual question about what the scriptures say. Start here when you have words: a question, a phrase, a term. When you already have a verse and want its parallels, use find_similar_verses instead; to read a known verse whole, use get_verse; to read a chapter or a book in order, use browse_work. Returns passages with an exact citation, a URL and the version hash of the text quoted. Read `confidence` before using the results. "none" means the library has no answer and the result list is empty — report that to the user instead of reaching for something related. "low" means the passages are leads, not answers. `matched_by` says how each was found: a passage found only by "vector" shares no words with the query.

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Argument	Type	Description
limit	integer	Passages to return. Default 8.
parts	array	Which part of a verse to search: `verse` is the Sanskrit source text, `translation` the literary translation, `word_by_word` the gloss table, `commentary` Vedaword's own exposition, `bhashya` an ācārya's original commentary. Omit to search all.
query*	string	A question, a phrase, a Sanskrit term, or a citation such as "BG 2.47". Any language, and Sanskrit in Devanāgarī or IAST. Quote the string to require the exact wording.
works	array	Restrict to these works by slug — see list_works. Omit to search all.