[ { "id": "SYN", "short": "Cross-history synthesis", "title": "Himavanta cross-history research synthesis", "kind": "Research control record", "date": "2026", "locator": "Cross_History_Thread_of_Truth.md; separately frozen history packages", "note": "The project comparison layer connects independently audited source families without merging their claims.", "limit": "A synthesis is not a primary witness and cannot fill a source’s silence." }, { "id": "PALI-SP", "short": "Samantapāsādikā", "title": "Samantapāsādikā source audit", "kind": "Primary text", "date": "received fifth-century Theravāda commentary", "locator": "PTS I:42, I:64–75, I:119; controlled Gate 1 and Gate 2 records", "note": "The governing PTS stream separates direct main text, explicit Dīpavaṃsa quotation, apparatus, and non-geographic lexical hits.", "limit": "It does not provide a connected Anotatta map, seven lakes, or animal-mouth directions." }, { "id": "PALI-JA", "short": "Jātaka commentary", "title": "Jātaka-aṭṭhakathā narrative geography audit", "kind": "Primary text", "date": "received fifth-century commentary tradition", "locator": "Ja 514 (Chaddanta), Ja 536 (seven lakes), Ja 485 and Ja 504 (kinnara settings)", "note": "Narrative landscapes are held as their own family so individual stories cannot silently rewrite the Samantapāsādikā baseline.", "limit": "A landscape in one Jātaka is not automatically a universal Himavanta layout." }, { "id": "SAR", "short": "Sāratthadīpanī", "title": "Sāratthadīpanī Gate 2 controlled extraction", "kind": "Primary text", "date": "probably 1165–1186, Polonnaruwa Sri Lanka", "locator": "Vol. 1 p. 94; Vol. 3 p. 157; bounded occurrence and claim ledgers", "note": "This medieval Vinaya subcommentary contains the largest connected Anotatta drainage dossier in the audited Pāli-area material.", "limit": "The exposition is compilational/inherited in parts and is not a surveyed watershed." }, { "id": "GANDHARI", "short": "Anavatapta-gāthā", "title": "Robert Senior Scroll 14: Anavatapta-gāthā", "kind": "Manuscript object", "date": "c. 140 CE", "locator": "Gāndhārī birch-bark manuscript; presumed Haḍḍa findspot", "note": "The earliest securely dated physical witness in this corpus preserves fragmentary lake-journey and four-direction-water material.", "limit": "A findspot is not the location of the lake; fragments are not a complete narrative.", "url": "https://gandhari-texts.sydney.edu.au/edition/anavatapta-gatha/" }, { "id": "INDIC", "short": "Indic witnesses", "title": "Indic and northern Buddhist Anavatapta witnesses", "kind": "Primary text", "date": "fourth–seventh centuries CE editions and witnesses", "locator": "S01, S03, S07 in History 03 Run 1 control package", "note": "The witnesses retain their own dimensions, Gandhamādana relations, river wording, and nāga claims.", "limit": "Their measurements and spatial expressions must not be averaged into one diagram." }, { "id": "CHINESE", "short": "Chinese Buddhist texts", "title": "Chinese Buddhist Anavatapta source family", "kind": "Primary text", "date": "Western Jin–Tang, 266–646 CE", "locator": "T23, T24, T25, T197, T199, T2087; History 04 source manifest", "note": "Translations and Xuanzang/Bianji’s record create witness-specific Kunlun, river, mountain, and animal-direction configurations.", "limit": "Source-reported geography is not a modern field survey and does not erase other variants." }, { "id": "K908", "short": "K. 908", "title": "K. 908 inscription, Jayataṭāka / Rājyaśrī", "kind": "Inscription", "date": "late twelfth century CE", "locator": "Frozen title: 1114 Śaka; internal consecration passage: 1113 Śaka / 1191 CE; Neak Pean, Angkor", "note": "The inscription identifies the royal reservoir and island complex that later scholarship relates to Anavatapta imagery.", "limit": "K. 908 does not name the monument Anavatapta.", "url": "https://dharmalekha.info/texts/INSCIK00908" }, { "id": "NEAK", "short": "Neak Pean", "title": "Neak Pean architectural record", "kind": "Architecture", "date": "late twelfth century CE", "locator": "Jayavarman VII’s Angkor complex: central basin, island, and four satellite pools", "note": "A measurable sacred-water monument associated with Jayataṭāka and the island called Rājyaśrī in K. 908.", "limit": "Built form can be compared with cosmographic traditions; it does not prove a single textual source or label." }, { "id": "TRAI", "short": "Traibhumikathā", "title": "Traibhumikathā textual-tradition audit", "kind": "Primary text", "date": "claimed 1345; surviving witnesses 1689–1983", "locator": "1689 Chiang Mai lead; 1778 complete witness; 1912 print; 1983 governing edition", "note": "The Thai cosmographic tradition is layered rather than a transparent surviving 1345 autograph.", "limit": "No sentence in the governing edition should automatically be dated to 1345.", "url": "https://digital.nlt.go.th/dlib/items/show/1487" }, { "id": "BERLIN", "short": "Berlin Traiphum II 650", "title": "Berlin Traiphum II 650 research record", "kind": "Manuscript object", "date": "commission associated with 1776", "locator": "Anotatta at fols. 35v–36v; six-metre public project section", "note": "An eighteenth-century Thonburi cosmogram with an object-specific animal-direction arrangement.", "limit": "The surviving manuscript’s relationship to the 1776 commission remains disputed; this site does not reproduce unlicensed imagery.", "url": "https://www.smb.museum/en/museums-institutions/museum-fuer-asiatische-kunst/collection-research/research/six-metres-of-traiphum/" }, { "id": "THAI-CREATURES", "short": "Thai court bestiary", "title": "Later Thai Himmapan creature provenance ledger", "kind": "Research control record", "date": "Ayutthaya to modern reception", "locator": "History 09 Gate 1/2 creature provenance and corpus controls", "note": "The ledger separates court procession, royal crematorium, architectural, Lanna funeral, and later catalogue traditions.", "limit": "A later creature catalogue does not establish an early textual habitat or a universal ancient taxonomy." }, { "id": "TIBET", "short": "Tibetan localization", "title": "Tibetan Anavatapta reception record", "kind": "Primary text", "date": "late eighth-century translation; later localization", "locator": "Toh 156 and controlled regional expansion records", "note": "Tibetan traditions associate sacred mountain and lake geographies with canonical material while preserving internal objections.", "limit": "“Often identified with Manasarovar” is not proof of original geographic identity.", "url": "https://84000.co/translation/toh156" }, { "id": "JAPAN", "short": "Japanese maps", "title": "Japanese Buddhist cartography object registry", "kind": "Visual witness", "date": "1364–c. 1865", "locator": "Hōryūji 1364, Hotan 1710, Kyoto 1828, and related object controls", "note": "Maps preserve Buddhist cosmography while their surrounding geographic frames change over centuries.", "limit": "No single Japanese map is a universal Buddhist world diagram." }, { "id": "BURMA", "short": "Burmese cosmographies", "title": "Burmese / Myanmar cosmography object registry", "kind": "Visual witness", "date": "eighteenth–mid-twentieth centuries", "locator": "Painted parabaik, palm-leaf, vertical moral sequence, and continent-map witnesses", "note": "Burmese visual traditions repeatedly retain mountain, water, animal-head, and river motifs in changing media.", "limit": "Unaudited labels and restricted research images are not used for claim-level assertions here." }, { "id": "KANDY", "short": "Kandyan murals", "title": "Kandyan / Sri Lankan Anotatta painting registry", "kind": "Visual witness", "date": "eighteenth century", "locator": "Dambulla Cave 3 and Kottimbulvala object records", "note": "The corpus records object-specific animal-mouth waters and elaborated river treatments in Kandyan mural traditions.", "limit": "Undocumented or unreviewed mural detail is not reconstructed on this site." }, { "id": "GAO", "short": "Gao 2020", "title": "The Idea of Anavatapta in India and East Asia", "kind": "Scholarly interpretation", "date": "2020", "locator": "Religions 11(3):134", "note": "Open-access scholarship useful for cross-regional Anavatapta and Japanese map reception.", "limit": "Its interpretations are identified as scholarship, distinct from the source objects.", "url": "https://www.mdpi.com/2077-1444/11/3/134" }, { "id": "SMB", "short": "Stoye & Rungrueng", "title": "“In den seligen Gefilden des Himavanta”", "kind": "Scholarly interpretation", "date": "2025", "locator": "Open-access specialist article on the Berlin Traiphum project", "note": "Specialist context for the six-metre public presentation of the Berlin manuscript.", "limit": "No complete transcription or facsimile was available in the reviewed corpus.", "url": "https://ahnp.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/journals/jbm/article/download/114348/109966" }, { "id": "THREAD-SYNTHESIS", "short": "Cross-history synthesis", "title": "Himavanta continuity, conflict, silence, and innovation synthesis", "kind": "Comparative research synthesis", "date": "2026 synthesis of frozen histories", "locator": "26 continuity edges; 16 conflicts; 13 silences; 11 innovations", "note": "Compares source histories without transferring properties between them or claiming one physical landscape.", "limit": "Formal similarity is not automatically direct transmission, and continuity is not proof of a modern coordinate." }, { "id": "PA-CANON", "short": "Early Pāli baseline", "title": "Vinaya Mahāvagga, Aṅguttara Nikāya IV, and Apadāna controlled corpus", "kind": "Primary text", "date": "early Pāli canonical and Khuddaka textual layers", "locator": "Family A Gate 2: 175 PTS-layout occurrences and 141 atomic assertions", "note": "The corpus preserves an Anotatta journey, a seven-lake and five-river baseline, named Himavanta mountains, and repeated narrative settings.", "limit": "The three works remain separate; repeated names do not authorize one combined canonical map." }, { "id": "PB-CHRONICLES", "short": "Pāli chronicles", "title": "Dīpavaṃsa and Mahāvaṃsa controlled reception corpus", "kind": "Primary text", "date": "Sri Lankan Pāli chronicle tradition", "locator": "Family B Gate 2: 721 occurrences and 648 admitted assertions", "note": "The chronicles repeatedly connect Laṅkā, Jambudīpa, Gaṅgā, Himavanta, and extraordinary Anotatta water through missions, gifts, meals, and royal history.", "limit": "The corpus is a chronicle reception layer, not a source-native connected map of Anotatta." }, { "id": "PC-COMMENTARIES", "short": "Classical Pāli commentaries", "title": "Seven-work classical Pāli commentarial bridge corpus", "kind": "Primary text", "date": "received classical Theravāda commentarial traditions", "locator": "Family C Gate 2: 535 assertions; 25 Anotatta or lake-system records", "note": "Papañcasūdanī, Manorathapūraṇī, and Paramatthajotikā II preserve full versions of the seven-lake, five-peak, four-mouth, staged-river dossier.", "limit": "The frozen VRI Roman XML is one editorial stream; printed-edition collation and publication-level translation review remain separate tasks." }, { "id": "PD-LOKAPPADIPAKASARA", "short": "Lokappadīpakasāra", "title": "Lokappadīpakasāra bounded medieval loka corpus", "kind": "Primary text", "date": "medieval Pāli cosmographic compendium", "locator": "Family D Gate 2: 250 occurrences, 212 assertions, 15 connected-system records", "note": "The acquired work preserves Anotatta, the seven lakes, named route stages, Himavanta, Sineru, Cakkavāḷa, and major river vocabulary.", "limit": "This is one acquired compendium; Lokapaññatti, Sāratthasaṅgaha, Lokuppatti, and related works were not included in the completed extraction." }, { "id": "PE-CAKKAVALADIPANI", "short": "Cakkavāḷadīpanī manuscript", "title": "Lanna Cakkavāḷadīpanī image and alignment corpus", "kind": "Manuscript object", "date": "sixteenth-century Lanna work; later manuscript witness", "locator": "184 full-resolution images; 957 palm-leaf bands; 3,931 line candidates; six edited chapters aligned", "note": "The complete image corpus and edited-Pāli chapter controls are locally frozen for future human-assisted transcription.", "limit": "No manuscript line has a verified diplomatic transcription yet; edition-derived hints cannot be quoted as manuscript readings." }, { "id": "H1-PTS", "short": "H1 PTS passages", "title": "Samantapāsādikā: controlled PTS passage set", "kind": "Primary text", "date": "received Theravāda commentary", "locator": "PTS I:42–43; I:64–75; I:119; Gate 2 occurrence and variant records", "note": "The audit separates direct narrative prose, explicit Dīpavaṃsa quotation, apparatus readings, and non-geographic lexical matches.", "limit": "These passages do not create a connected seven-lake, five-peak, or animal-direction system." }, { "id": "H2-JA514", "short": "Ja 514", "title": "Chaddanta Jātaka commentary", "kind": "Primary text", "date": "received Pāli Jātaka commentary", "locator": "Ja 514; History 2 Gate 2 controlled occurrences", "note": "A named elephant-king narrative with its own lake, plants, mountains, and seasonal movement.", "limit": "Chaddanta’s narrative geography does not become the generic geography of Anotatta." }, { "id": "H2-JA536", "short": "Ja 536", "title": "Mahājanaka Jātaka commentary: seven-lake panorama", "kind": "Primary text", "date": "received Pāli Jātaka commentary", "locator": "Ja 536, governing PDF p. 2113", "note": "The controlled seven-lake list includes Tiyaggaḷa and does not contain Mandākinī.", "limit": "List membership is not a shared plan, direction, scale, or animal-mouth system." }, { "id": "H2-JA541", "short": "Ja 541", "title": "Sāma Jātaka commentary: Sīdā River passage", "kind": "Primary text", "date": "received Pāli Jātaka commentary", "locator": "Ja 541, governing PDF p. 2290", "note": "A narrative river passage with a local mountain and ascetic setting.", "limit": "It does not place every repeated Himavanta landmark in one common map." }, { "id": "H2-HERMITAGES", "short": "Jātaka hermitages", "title": "Pāli Jātaka commentary: Himavanta hermitage and river cluster", "kind": "Primary text", "date": "received Pāli Jātaka commentary", "locator": "Ja 408, 424, 459, 485, 495, 526, 535, 540, 541, and 547; History 2 Gate 2 records", "note": "The selected stories describe northern ascetic regions, riverbank huts, measured footpaths, seasonal movement, subsistence, vegetation, music, and purpose-built retreats.", "limit": "Each scene remains a story-specific place; the group is compared as a way of life rather than assembled into one terrain map." }, { "id": "H3-S01", "short": "H3 S01", "title": "Abhidharmakośabhāṣya witness: Anavatapta sequence", "kind": "Primary text", "date": "fourth–fifth century witness tradition", "locator": "Pradhan p. 162, lines 17–25; History 3 Run 1 controls", "note": "S01 gives the Kīṭa → Himavān → Anavatapta sequence, an arvāk relation to Gandhamādana, four river names, and fifty-yojana measures.", "limit": "Its elliptical length wording and arvāk relation cannot be converted into a universal cardinal diagram." }, { "id": "H3-S03", "short": "H3 S03", "title": "Mūlasarvāstivāda Bhaiṣajyavastu: Anavatapta narrative", "kind": "Primary text", "date": "sixth–seventh century Gilgit-context witness", "locator": "MSV I 163–166; History 3 Run 1 controls", "note": "S03 supplies the Buddha with 499 arhats, four rivers, a central lotus arrangement, and a separate homonymous Anavatapta pit.", "limit": "Its wording does not unambiguously say that Nanda and Upananda constructed the lotus." }, { "id": "H3-S07", "short": "H3 S07", "title": "Kaṭhināvadāna: Anavatapta passage", "kind": "Primary text", "date": "Sanskrit avadāna edition", "locator": "§§17–22; History 3 Run 1 controls", "note": "S07 explicitly says the two nāga kings fashioned the lotus and gives 44 × 44 yojanas with forty downward.", "limit": "The spatial force of agre and the relation to other witness dimensions remain unresolved." }, { "id": "H4-T23", "short": "T23", "title": "Dàlóutàn jīng: Western Jin Anavatapta witness", "kind": "Primary text", "date": "Western Jin Chinese translation", "locator": "Taishō T23; History 4 exact occurrence ledger", "note": "A source-specific cool/clear lake, nāga palace, mountain, and four-direction river account.", "limit": "It cannot silently receive the later Sui, Tang, Khmer, or Thai animal rows." }, { "id": "H4-T24T25", "short": "T24/T25", "title": "Sui Snow Mountain cosmography witnesses", "kind": "Primary text", "date": "Sui Chinese translations", "locator": "Taishō T24 and T25; History 4 exact occurrence ledger", "note": "These parallel witnesses give a source-family animal/direction row: east elephant, south bull, west horse, north lion.", "limit": "A shared textual family is not an eternal Buddhist animal compass." }, { "id": "H4-T197T199", "short": "T197/T199", "title": "Chinese Anavatapta karmic-assembly prefaces", "kind": "Primary text", "date": "Chinese Buddhist translation and preface traditions", "locator": "Taishō T197 0163c13–27 and T199 0190a06–12; History 4 exact occurrence ledger", "note": "T197 joins Kunlun, four outlets, the Yellow River, a golden lotus, and a five-hundred-arhat observance; T199 gives a nāga host, five rivers, memory-awakening water, a meal, lotus seating, and karmic recollection.", "limit": "The prefatory Kunlun and Yellow River framing belongs to the Chinese reception setting and is not silently back-translated into an Indic original." }, { "id": "H4-T2087", "short": "T2087", "title": "Great Tang Records on the Western Regions", "kind": "Primary text", "date": "646 CE compilation", "locator": "Taishō T2087; History 4 exact occurrence ledger", "note": "The Xuanzang/Bianji record gives a source-reported lake, mountains, measurement, river directions, and alternate Yellow River report.", "limit": "It is a learned compilation, not a personal modern-style survey of a recoverable lake." }, { "id": "H5-V1", "short": "H5 vol. 1", "title": "Sāratthadīpanī: seven lakes, peaks, and southern water dossier", "kind": "Primary text", "date": "medieval Theravāda subcommentary", "locator": "Vol. 1 pp. 93–95; Gate 2 occurrence records", "note": "The richest connected audited Pāli-area exposition: five peaks, seven lakes, mouths, a staged water route, and Mandākinī ecology.", "limit": "It is explicitly compilational in places and may not repair silence in the earlier Samantapāsādikā." }, { "id": "H6-K908", "short": "K. 908", "title": "K. 908, Preah Khan / Jayataṭāka inscription", "kind": "Inscription", "date": "late twelfth-century Angkor", "locator": "DHARMA XML; stanzas 168–170; History 6 Gate 2 controls", "note": "Names Jayataṭāka and Rājyaśrī and describes the island-and-basins complex in a purification register.", "limit": "It does not name Anavatapta, Nanda/Upananda, four animal spouts, a hospital, or literary river names." }, { "id": "H6-PLAN", "short": "Neak Pean plan", "title": "Neak Pean / Jayataṭāka architectural control", "kind": "Architecture", "date": "late twelfth-century monument; later restoration state", "locator": "History 6 plan and architectural controls", "note": "The project records the reservoir, Rājyaśrī island, central basin, satellite pools, visible outlets, and restoration-sensitive features.", "limit": "Built form alone does not prove a single literary source or a fully original hydraulic scheme." }, { "id": "H7-NLT", "short": "H7 NLT 1983", "title": "Traibhumikathā: National Library of Thailand governing edition", "kind": "Primary text", "date": "1983 edition of a layered textual tradition", "locator": "National Library corrected edition, pp. 133–139", "note": "The controlled Thai passages provide lakes, peaks, partial animal-direction wording, a five-river route, Chaddanta, and an ethical frame.", "limit": "The edition’s exact wording cannot automatically be dated to a 1345 authorial original." }, { "id": "H8-S06", "short": "H8 public sample", "title": "Berlin Traiphum II 650: controlled public Himavanta section", "kind": "Manuscript object", "date": "eighteenth-century Thonburi object", "locator": "Public-study sample, especially fols. 20v–53v; Anotatta fols. 35v–36v", "note": "The review controls visible public material, including the Anotatta animal row and lake axes.", "limit": "The project does not hold or claim a complete facsimile, full transcription, or whole-roll reading." }, { "id": "H9-L002", "short": "H9 L002", "title": "Nok Hatsadiling: Northern Thai funerary record", "kind": "Research control record", "date": "dated source record in History 9 ledger", "locator": "History 9 Creature Provenance Ledger, H9-L002", "note": "Records an elephant head, bird body, wings, tail/feathers, taloned feet, nāga-scaled neck, and a cremation-carrier role.", "limit": "This is a regional funerary record, not a universal ancient forest species description." }, { "id": "H9-QW006", "short": "H9 QW006", "title": "Varī kuñjara / Waree Kunchorn register record", "kind": "Research control record", "date": "1931 Bangkok register", "locator": "History 9 Creature Provenance Ledger, H9-QW006", "note": "A dated register describes a water elephant as purple with green fins and tail.", "limit": "A later 2021 guide is a separate modern convention, not evidence for an older fixed form." }, { "id": "H9-QW034", "short": "H9 QW034", "title": "Hemarāja register record", "kind": "Research control record", "date": "1931 Bangkok register", "locator": "History 9 Creature Provenance Ledger, H9-QW034", "note": "The dated entry records Hemarāja as a vermilion swan-lion.", "limit": "It does not establish an ancient, pan-Asian morphology." }, { "id": "H9-QW1931", "short": "1931 creature register", "title": "Quaritch Wales appendix: thirty-four Bangkok creature forms", "kind": "Scholarly transcription of a dated register", "date": "1931 publication", "locator": "Quaritch Wales 1931, printed p. 168 / PDF p. 221; H9-QW001–034", "note": "Thirty-four source-printed names are paired with short form descriptions and conventional colours, visually reconciled to the page control.", "limit": "The appendix was adapted from a recently published Bangkok register; it records a dated convention rather than an ancient universal taxonomy." }, { "id": "H9-LEDGER", "short": "H9 creature ledger", "title": "Later Thai creature provenance controls", "kind": "Research control record", "date": "Ayutthaya to modern reception", "locator": "History 9 Gate 2 creature provenance ledger and negative findings", "note": "Separates dated ritual roles, registers, workshop conventions, modern guides, and records where morphology is not stated.", "limit": "An absent individual dossier must remain absent; a name alone is not evidence for anatomy or habitat." }, { "id": "RJ-OBJECTS", "short": "Japanese objects", "title": "Japanese Buddhist cartography object registry", "kind": "Visual witness", "date": "1364 to early Meiji", "locator": "1364 Hōryūji; 1402 Daigoji/Harvard; 1710 Hotan; 1749 Kobe; 1828 Kyoto; early-Meiji Ryukoku", "note": "A six-object historical sequence selected and controlled as individual maps, not a single generic Japanese tradition.", "limit": "Each map’s labels, rights, geometry, and source mixture remain object-specific." }, { "id": "RB-OBJECTS", "short": "Burmese objects", "title": "Burmese/Myanmar cosmography object registry", "kind": "Visual witness", "date": "eighteenth to mid-twentieth centuries", "locator": "History RB source manifest and object registry", "note": "A bounded set of painted, palm-leaf, map, and manuscript witnesses with uneven image and label access.", "limit": "Untranscribed Burmese/Pāli labels and restricted research images cannot be used as public claim-level evidence." }, { "id": "RT-LAYERS", "short": "Tibetan layers", "title": "Tibetan Anavatapta reception: canonical and localization layers", "kind": "Research control record", "date": "early translation to modern reception", "locator": "Toh 156; Toh 1–6; regional reception controls", "note": "Separates early translated canonical material, later pilgrimage localization and critique, travel testimony, and modern convention.", "limit": "Early canonical text does not itself name Manasarovar/Ma pham or Kailash as an Anavatapta identification." }, { "id": "RK-OBJECTS", "short": "Kandyan objects", "title": "Kandyan / Sri Lankan Anotatta painting controls", "kind": "Visual witness", "date": "eighteenth-century Sri Lankan reception", "locator": "Dambulla Cave 3; Kottimbulvala and Mulkirigala boundary records", "note": "Dambulla has a reviewed scholarly reproduction; other sites have weaker acquired primary-image support.", "limit": "No unseen panel topology or comprehensive Kandyan map is reconstructed." }, { "id": "H2-JA543", "short": "Ja 543", "title": "Bhūridatta Jātaka commentary: Garuḍa transit passage", "kind": "Primary text", "date": "received Pāli Jātaka commentary", "locator": "Ja 543, governing PDF p. 2465; H2-G2-OCC-0318", "note": "A Garuḍa carrying a nāga passes over Himavanta and a hermitage in a narrative event.", "limit": "The passage is transit, not a general Garuḍa habitat or a universal Garuḍa–Nāga rivalry account." }, { "id": "H2-KINNARA", "short": "Ja 485 / 504", "title": "Kinnara/Kinnari Jātaka setting passages", "kind": "Primary text", "date": "received Pāli Jātaka commentary", "locator": "Ja 485 p. 1562; Ja 504 p. 1694; H2 controlled occurrences", "note": "Canda/Candā and a kinnara couple have separate witness-specific mountain and river-route settings.", "limit": "These passages do not establish a universal kinnara anatomy, habitat, or Thai visual form." }, { "id": "H2-HAMSA", "short": "Pāli Haṃsa", "title": "Pāli Haṃsa Jātaka setting cluster", "kind": "Primary text", "date": "received Pāli Jātaka commentary", "locator": "Ja 215, 370, 379, 476, 502, 533, 534, 537; controlled PDF loci", "note": "A recurring Cittakūṭa, Golden Cave, lake, flock, and return pattern for golden/royal haṃsas.", "limit": "Pāli Haṃsa is not silently identical with later Thai Hong forms or S07 lake fauna." }, { "id": "H9-RITUAL", "short": "H9 ritual lists", "title": "Late-Ayutthaya royal-funerary creature lists", "kind": "Primary text", "date": "late Ayutthaya ritual record", "locator": "History 9 H9-S11-TXT-001/002; provenance controls H9-C042–043", "note": "The sources distinguish stationary Meru assemblages from a mobile ten-pair, twenty-figure procession.", "limit": "A name in a ritual list is not an individual anatomy, habitat, or ancient zoological biography." }, { "id": "H9-MODERN", "short": "H9 modern guide", "title": "Thailand Foundation creature presentation", "kind": "Visual witness", "date": "2021 public-facing convention", "locator": "History 9 H9-O014; H9-C030–031", "note": "A modern guide provides dated contemporary presentation of selected creature names and forms.", "limit": "It is not evidence for premodern morphology, ecology, or an inherited ancient taxonomy." }, { "id": "SITE-BOUNDARY", "short": "Publication boundary", "title": "Himavanta.org evidence and publication boundary", "kind": "Research control record", "date": "2026", "locator": "research-corpus/manifest.json; research-weakness-audit.md", "note": "The public authoring corpus is source-bounded and internally validated; it is not an automatic publication feed.", "limit": "All normalized claims remain pending external publication certification and must be edited source by source." } ]