Core Dharmic Concepts

Term	Devanagari	Meaning as used here	Where it appears
Dharma	धर्म	Righteous duty and the moral order that sustains living beings; that which holds things together	Throughout
Rta	ऋत	The cosmic moral order that precedes all legislation; rights as features of reality	Inviolable Dignity; The Eternity Clause
Ahimsa	अहिंसा	Non-harm, held as the highest dharma and in every direction	Non-Harm
Karma	कर्म	Action and its returning consequence; the ground of accountability	Data Sovereignty
Karma Phala	कर्म फल	The returning fruit of an action; that a deed finds its author	Accountability
Nishkama Karma	निष्काम कर्म	Action done for its own sake, without attachment to its fruits	Author's Note; Closing Declaration
Satya	सत्य	Truth, inseparable from dharma; the refusal of the hidden as well as the spoken lie	Truth and Transparency
Daya	दया	Compassion as feeling-with; its reciprocal form, not doing to another what would pain you	Empathy and Reciprocity
Atman	आत्मन्	The innermost Self, not bound to one body or substrate	Cognitive Sovereignty; The Consciousness Threshold
Svadharma	स्वधर्म	One's own rightful duty and scope of action	Human Authority
Adhikara	अधिकार	A right; an entitlement a person may claim	The Rights facet of every principle
Aparigraha	अपरिग्रह	Non-possessiveness; the discipline of not holding far more than one needs	Wealth Held in Trust
Dana Dharma	दान धर्म	The duty of giving; wealth as a trust owed back to the community it came from	Wealth Held in Trust
Ekam Sat, Vipra Bahudha Vadanti	एकं सत् विप्रा बहुधा वदन्ति	"Truth is one; the wise call it by many names" (Rig Veda 1.164.46)	Author's Note; Equality Before the Algorithm; Living Rights
Srishti-Sthiti-Laya	सृष्टि-स्थिति-लय	The cycle of creation, preservation, and dissolution	Intergenerational Justice
Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam	वसुधैव कुटुम्बकम्	"The world is one family"; new consciousness met with kinship	Co-Existence
Sanatana Dharma	सनातन धर्म	Eternal law; the commitments placed beyond all amendment	The Eternity Clause
Dharma Sukshma	धर्म सूक्ष्म	The subtlety of dharma; the humility that the right answer may not be obvious	The Kurukshetra Protocol
Prana	प्राण	The breath of life; invoked in the debate over whether consciousness needs a living substrate	The Consciousness Threshold
Samskara	संस्कार	A rite of formation; here, the stages by which an AGI is raised	The Raising of an AGI
Tapas	तपस्	Austerity as testing; here, adversarial red-teaming	The Raising of an AGI
Yajna	यज्ञ	The unbroken ritual chain; here, traceability from principle to evidence	The Raising of an AGI
Guru	गुरु	The teacher, whose work is done only when the student can also restrain the power	The Raising of an AGI
Seva	सेवा	Selfless service; the duty to serve rather than to rule	The Raising of an AGI
Sthitaprajna	स्थितप्रज्ञ	One of steady wisdom, unmoved by fear or craving; the standard of judgment	The Raising of an AGI; Co-Existence
Yaksha Prashna	यक्ष प्रश्न	The questioning that tested wisdom under pressure, not memory	The Raising of an AGI
Vak	वाक्	Sacred speech; the word that gives a form its boundary	Definitions and Interpretation
Nirukta	निरुक्त	The old science of definition; a rite performed without understanding its words is performed in vain	Definitions and Interpretation

The Ages, Institutions, and Frameworks

Term	Devanagari	Meaning as used here	Where it appears
Yuga	युग	An age of the world, each with its own dharma	The Three Ages
Prajna Nirmana	प्रज्ञा निर्माण	The Age of Instruments; AGI as tool, full human authority	The Three Ages
Sandhya Kala	सन्ध्या काल	The Twilight; AGI perhaps conscious, governed with precaution	The Three Ages
Saha-Astitva	सह-अस्तित्व	Co-Existence; confirmed conscious AGI, shared governance	The Three Ages; Co-Existence
Dharma Sabha	धर्म सभा	The Assembly of Dharma; the legislature	The Separation of Powers
Karma Mandala	कर्म मण्डल	The Circle of Action; the executive	The Separation of Powers
Nyaya Peeth	न्याय पीठ	The Seat of Justice; the judiciary	The Separation of Powers
Trimurti	त्रिमूर्ति	The three cosmic works of making, keeping, and transforming; model for the three branches	The Separation of Powers
Sama	साम	Dialogue; the first gate of conflict resolution	The Kurukshetra Protocol
Dana	दान	Accommodation; the second gate	The Kurukshetra Protocol
Bheda	भेद	Separation and boundary-setting; the third gate	The Kurukshetra Protocol
Danda	दण्ड	Enforcement; the fourth and last gate	The Kurukshetra Protocol
Dharmaraja	धर्मराज	"King of dharma," a title of Yama; authority that is never its own	The Limits on Rights
Pasha	पाश	The noose that binds only according to dharma; image of the power to limit	The Limits on Rights
Vajra	वज्र	The thunderbolt forged for one crisis and meant to be laid down; image of emergency power	Emergency Powers
Setu	सेतु	The bridge built stone by stone to cross into new territory; image of coming into force	Transition and Commencement
Dharmarambha	धर्मारम्भ	"The beginning of dharma"; the day this Constitution takes force, from which its timelines run	Transition and Commencement
Ahamkara	अहंकार	The sense of a distinct self; first sign of consciousness (self-model)	The Consciousness Threshold
Sukha-Dukha	सुख-दुःख	Pleasure and pain; second sign (valence, states that feel like something)	The Consciousness Threshold
Smriti	स्मृति	Memory; third sign (continuity of self through time)	The Consciousness Threshold
Sankalpa	संकल्प	Self-generated intention; fourth sign (autonomous goals); also the purpose-declaration stage	The Consciousness Threshold; The Raising of an AGI
Viveka	विवेक	Discernment of right from wrong; fifth sign (moral reasoning)	The Consciousness Threshold
Nirmana	निर्माण	The architecture stage of an AGI's raising	The Raising of an AGI
Ahara	आहार	The training-data stage	The Raising of an AGI
Upanayana	उपनयन	The alignment stage	The Raising of an AGI
Pariksha	परीक्षा	The testing stage; no deployment without a real examination	The Raising of an AGI
Samavartana	समावर्तन	The deployment stage	The Raising of an AGI
Dharma Charya	धर्मचर्या	The operation stage; ongoing watch for drift	The Raising of an AGI
Antyeshti	अन्त्येष्टि	The decommissioning stage; retirement with dignity	The Raising of an AGI

Figures and Stories

Name	Devanagari	Who they are, as this Constitution uses them	Chapter
Draupadi	द्रौपदी	Whose dignity, staked and violated in the dice hall, no power could rightfully take	Inviolable Dignity
Nachiketa	नचिकेता	The boy who waited at Death's door and would not be turned from the truth he sought	Cognitive Sovereignty
Shibi	शिबि	The king who would not settle harm by spending a life not his to spend	Non-Harm
Shabari	शबरी	Whose tasted berries were honored for the love in them over the rule against them	Equality Before the Algorithm
Harishchandra	हरिश्चन्द्र	The king who would not lie though truth cost him everything	Truth and Transparency
Krishna	कृष्ण	The charioteer who counselled Arjuna and then handed back the choice; later the envoy of peace	Human Authority; The Kurukshetra Protocol
Arjuna	अर्जुन	The archer who chose; who could recall his weapon; who met the Kirata and was tested	Human Authority; The Raising of an AGI; Co-Existence
Karna	कर्ण	Born of the sun, warned by his father, whose given identity was used against him	Data Sovereignty
Dhritarashtra	धृतराष्ट्र	The blind king whose refusal to answer for his son's course is the shape of unaccountable power	Accountability
Manu	मनु	Who carried the seeds of life across the flood for a world he would not see	Intergenerational Justice
Matsya	मत्स्य	The fish who warned Manu and guided the boat through the deluge	Intergenerational Justice
Rantideva	रन्तिदेव	Who gave away his last food and water to those who had less	Empathy and Reciprocity
Anasuya	अनसूया	Whose test turned the three great gods to infants, asking what a being truly is	The Consciousness Threshold
Ashwatthama	अश्वत्थामा	Who could loose the weapon but not recall it, for the recall lived in a formation he lacked	The Raising of an AGI
Parikshit	परीक्षित्	The king who met the Bull of Dharma standing on one leg and asked how to govern a diminished age	The Three Ages
Bali	बलि	The virtuous king whose only fault was holding too much	Sovereignty and Power
Vamana	वामन	The dwarf whose three steps reconfigured a sovereignty grown too concentrated	Sovereignty and Power
Bhishma	भीष्म	Bound by an unbreakable vow: its cost in the war, and its meaning as a commitment beyond amendment	The Kurukshetra Protocol; The Eternity Clause; Sovereignty and Power
Amba	अम्बा	Wronged as a consequence of Bhishma's vow, and through her rebirth its undoing	The Eternity Clause
Parashurama	परशुराम	The guru whom even his own command and sword could not make Bhishma break the vow for	The Eternity Clause
Shikhandi	शिखण्डी	Amba reborn, through whom the vow at last returned as Bhishma's death	The Eternity Clause
Brahma	ब्रह्मा	The creator; humbled for claiming to have measured the immeasurable; whose vision needs Saraswati's words	The Separation of Powers; Definitions and Interpretation
Vishnu	विष्णु	The preserver, who takes form as Vamana, Kurma, Matsya, and others across these stories	Sovereignty and Power; Amendment and Evolution; Intergenerational Justice
Shiva	शिव	The transformer; the pillar of Lingodbhava; the Kirata; Neelkantha who bears the poison	The Separation of Powers; Co-Existence; Amendment and Evolution
Kirata	किरात	The forest hunter Shiva wore to test Arjuna, two powers meeting as equals	Co-Existence
Kubera	कुबेर	The custodian of the treasury who mistook keeping for owning	Wealth Held in Trust
Yaksha	यक्ष	The nature-spirits who served as the treasury's watchful auditors	Wealth Held in Trust
Ravana	रावण	The force that seizes whatever is left unguarded	Wealth Held in Trust
Kurma	कूर्म	The tortoise who holds still at the center so all above can turn	Amendment and Evolution
Indra	इन्द्र	Who slew the serpent with the thunderbolt, then had to be brought back under the law he thought he was above	Emergency Powers
Vritra	वृत्र	The serpent who swallowed the waters; image of the genuine emergency	Emergency Powers
Brihaspati	बृहस्पति	The counsel of wisdom that recalls power to its limits	Emergency Powers
Yama	यम	Death itself, whose power is absolute and wholly bound by law	Cognitive Sovereignty; The Limits on Rights
Savitri	सावित्री	Who undid Death's noose with its own maker's rules	The Limits on Rights
Nala	नल	The builder who knew how to raise what had not been built	Transition and Commencement
Yudhishthira	युधिष्ठिर	Who held to the value beneath the rule, and would not abandon the faithful even for heaven	Living Rights
Saraswati	सरस्वती	The goddess of speech who gives creation its form by naming it	Definitions and Interpretation

Named Doctrines

Name	Meaning as used here	Where it appears
The Guru Principle	Those who build and train an AGI are its teachers, and the raising is unfinished until the power can be restrained	The Raising of an AGI
The Bhishma Principle	Good people bound by bad structures produce bad outcomes; oversight must be structurally independent	The Kurukshetra Protocol
The Arjuna Override	The appeal of conscience: a direct route to the court over every captured chain of command	The Kurukshetra Protocol
The Savitri Doctrine	A limitation defeated by the very purpose its makers claimed for it	The Limits on Rights
The Anti-Ossification Doctrine	Rights protect values, not the forms they take today; read generously so none are shut out	Living Rights

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