Māheśvara-sūtras
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Māheśvara-sūtras are a foundational set of phonological aphorisms in Sanskrit grammar, traditionally said to have been revealed by the god Śiva and used by Pāṇini to systematize the sounds of the language.
All labels observed (1)
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| Māheśvara-sūtras canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T21907940 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Māheśvara-sūtras Context triple: [Śiva-sūtras (phonological inventory), hasAlternativeName, Māheśvara-sūtras]
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Śrīmālādevī Siṃhanāda Sūtra
The Śrīmālādevī Siṃhanāda Sūtra is a key Mahāyāna Buddhist scripture, framed as a discourse by Queen Śrīmālā, that expounds the doctrine of tathāgatagarbha or universal Buddha-nature.
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Samkhyasutra
Samkhyasutra is an ancient foundational text of the Sāṃkhya school of Indian philosophy, traditionally attributed to the sage Kapila and concerned with enumerating and analyzing the fundamental principles of reality.
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Vārāha Shrauta Sutra
The Vārāha Shrauta Sutra is an ancient Vedic ritual text attributed to the Vārāha school, detailing procedures for large-scale public sacrifices and other solemn rites of the śrauta tradition.
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Vaisesika Sutra
The Vaisesika Sutra is an ancient Indian philosophical text that systematizes the Vaisheshika school’s atomistic and realist metaphysics, detailing categories of reality such as substance, quality, and motion.
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Tattvasandoha
Tattvasandoha is a philosophical treatise by the Kashmiri Shaiva scholar Kshemaraja that systematically expounds core doctrines of non-dual Shaivism.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Māheśvara-sūtras Target entity description: Māheśvara-sūtras are a foundational set of phonological aphorisms in Sanskrit grammar, traditionally said to have been revealed by the god Śiva and used by Pāṇini to systematize the sounds of the language.
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A.
Śrīmālādevī Siṃhanāda Sūtra
The Śrīmālādevī Siṃhanāda Sūtra is a key Mahāyāna Buddhist scripture, framed as a discourse by Queen Śrīmālā, that expounds the doctrine of tathāgatagarbha or universal Buddha-nature.
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B.
Samkhyasutra
Samkhyasutra is an ancient foundational text of the Sāṃkhya school of Indian philosophy, traditionally attributed to the sage Kapila and concerned with enumerating and analyzing the fundamental principles of reality.
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C.
Vārāha Shrauta Sutra
The Vārāha Shrauta Sutra is an ancient Vedic ritual text attributed to the Vārāha school, detailing procedures for large-scale public sacrifices and other solemn rites of the śrauta tradition.
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D.
Vaisesika Sutra
The Vaisesika Sutra is an ancient Indian philosophical text that systematizes the Vaisheshika school’s atomistic and realist metaphysics, detailing categories of reality such as substance, quality, and motion.
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E.
Tattvasandoha
Tattvasandoha is a philosophical treatise by the Kashmiri Shaiva scholar Kshemaraja that systematically expounds core doctrines of non-dual Shaivism.
- F. None of above. chosen
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