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In plain words
Most of the Body of Work is inference. I tried to source the flagship claim in the Kālikā Purāṇa and failed in a specific way. Below are the questions that failure produced. Answer one if you can.
Where this stands
Most of what you'll read is inference — my structural reading of a tradition I was raised in, thought through with an engineer's mind. It is not attestation.
Shastra, HOPE, and the Awareness Equation are the work of turning that inference into something checkable. They're early. If the inference clicks for you — if you look at this and think "that's not nothing" — come help me source it properly.
The open questions
Context and the pin ledger: observation 3.8. Use Respond on that page (or this one) and name the question number.
Open question #1
Where is the Dakṣiṇa Kālī bīja (Krīm) primarily attested?
I searched the Kālikā Purāṇa (B.N. Shastri English, full OCR) — not there. I can only find it in compiled / teaching sources. Acceptance: named text + edition + chapter/verse + resolving link to a critical or scholarly edition.
Open question #2
Where is the Dakṣiṇa Kālī mūla mantra primarily attested?
Same search of the Kālikā Purāṇa — no clean pin. Acceptance: named text + edition + verse + link.
Open question #3
Where is a Dakṣiṇa Kālī gāyatrī / standalone dhyāna primarily attested?
Dhyāna material appears inside a compiled kavaca (Śyāmārahasya lead). That is not enough. Acceptance: critical or scholarly edition pin.
Open question #4
Is there a Dakṣiṇa Kālī aṣṭakam with a checkable edition?
Compilations exist; I have not verified manuscript / edition lineage. Acceptance: edition + text + link.
Open question #5
Where is a Dakṣiṇa Kālī śatanāma primarily attested?
No checked critical pin yet. Acceptance: named text + edition + verse + link.
Open question #6
Where is the Dakṣiṇa Kālī pūjā vidhi primarily attested?
Kālikā Purāṇa has Kalikula ritual material, but not a clean Dakṣiṇa module pin in the edition I searched. Acceptance: named procedure text + edition + locus.
Open question #7
Can the three compiled pins (stotra, sahasranāma, kavaca) be upgraded to critical editions?
They currently live on Sanskrit Documents with compilation / colophon leads (including Śyāmārahasya / Rudrayāmala for the kavaca). Acceptance: scholarly edition citations that supersede the compilation links — or a reasoned demotion.
Open question #8
Is the uniform deity-stack a classical tantric structure, or a later devotional-compilation pattern?
If the latter, my central observation is substantially weaker, and the “engineering discipline across millennia” reading needs revising. I’d rather know. Acceptance: argument with sources — either direction.
How to answer
Prefer: named text, edition, chapter/verse, and a resolving link. Or a clear argument that a layer is compilation-only. Tags that apply: [attested]A named text, edition, and verse — linked. If it isn't linked, it isn't attested. [compiled-source]Appears in a devotional compilation (e.g. Sanskrit Documents) — real and useful, not a critical edition. [gap]I looked and could not find it. What I searched and where is named..
The honest ask
I'm not asking you to believe anything. I'm asking you to check the claim that matters most — and tell me if it breaks.
Bibliography: References.