Vedaword

Given a verse, find other passages in the library that say something close to it — by meaning, not by shared words.

Use it to check whether a teaching appears elsewhere before presenting it as the tradition's position, to gather parallel places, or to see how different works treat one subject. Set exclude_same_work when you want an independent witness: the next verse of the same chapter is nearly always similar and proves nothing.

An empty result is a real answer — it means the library says this in one place only.

Ekadashi fasts, festivals and the appearance and disappearance days of the acharyas in the Gaudiya Vaishnava calendar, computed for one place. Call it for any question about when an Ekadashi or a festival falls, or when to break a fast.

The place is required and matters: the fast day is decided by the tithi at local sunrise, and the time to break the fast is minutes wide and different in every city. Ask the user where they are rather than guessing. Every observance links to a page with its story and the verses behind it.

Fetch one verse whole: the Sanskrit in Devanāgarī and IAST, the word-by-word breakdown with the meaning each word carries in this passage, the literary translation, the commentary, and optionally the surrounding verses.

Call it after search_texts when you are going to quote, and whenever the user names a verse. The word-by-word table is what lets you explain or re-translate a line honestly instead of trusting a finished translation.

Accepts citations as people write them, not only internal ids.

List the works with their sizes, structure and available languages. Call it once at the start of a conversation about scripture, or when you need work slugs for filtering.

It also tells you what is not translated: several works exist only in Russian. Check languages before promising the user an English text.

Look up a Sanskrit word: its spellings across scripts, the meanings it carries in this corpus, how many verses gloss it, and examples of where it occurs.

Built from the word-by-word breakdowns of some 30 000 verses, so these are the meanings translators actually assigned to the word in these texts — not a lexicon's list of everything it could mean. Use it before translating a term yourself, and whenever the user asks what a word means.

Search the Vedaword library of Sanskrit scripture by meaning as well as by wording, so a paraphrased question works and a Sanskrit term reaches passages written in another script. This is the first thing to call for any factual question about what the scriptures say.

Returns passages with an exact citation, a URL and the version hash of the text quoted.

Read confidence before using the results. "none" means the library has no answer and the result list is empty — report that to the user instead of reaching for something related. "low" means the passages are leads, not answers. matched_by says how each was found: a passage found only by "vector" shares no words with the query.