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Lineage & release history

Sanatan is not one static system. It is a discipline that has shipped successive release versions as substrate conditions changed — each preserving the engineering intent while changing the delivery architecture. This table is a systems reading, not a ranking of traditions.

Era	System	Conditions	Architecture	Access
Vedic	Yajna, mantra, samhita ritual	Aligned society, ritual purity possible, small population, clean substrate	Centralized mainframe	Very high threshold
Upanishadic	Jnana, atma-vichara, sannyasa	Existential maturation, renunciate culture	Abstraction layer, jnana-centric	High threshold
Tantric	Mantra, yantra, nyasa, diksha, body as instrument	Society fragmenting, purity unavailable at scale	Distributed system	Medium threshold (via diksha)
Tantric forks	Aghora, Kaula, Krama, Kalikula, Srikula, Nath, Hatha	Specialization for different niches	Specialized modules	Variable
Bhakti	Devotional, emotional, narrative	Mass accessibility, vernacularization	Lightweight runtime	Low threshold
Naam Jaap	Repetition of the divine Name	Maximally degraded conditions, attention fragmented	Minimum viable protocol	Lowest possible
Candidate v3.0	SAE-1.4, Kamakhya Kernel, Spirit OS	Hyperconnected, AI-mediated, post-religious	Formalized awareness-engineering architecture	TBD

Closing note (v0.7): Sanatan is ahead of its time on the time axis — not above other traditions. Each release addressed the conditions of its era. Candidate v3.0 (SAE-1.4 + Kamakhya Kernel) is offered for pressure-testing, not as a replacement for lineage and practice.

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