Editorial & AI Methodology
This page explains how the original material on Rig Veda – Sacred Knowledge Portal is produced, who is accountable for it, and how we use AI tools responsibly. We publish it so readers, scholars and search engines can judge our work by a transparent, documented process rather than by guesswork.
Our sources
The base text is the public-domain Sanskrit Samhita of the Rig Veda together with the verse-level Devanagari, a scholarly IAST romanisation, and Ralph T. H. Griffith's 1896 English translation. These are reproduced faithfully and are clearly distinguished, on every page, from our own editorial additions.
What we add on top of the public-domain text
- Hymn introductions are generated deterministically from verified corpus facts (mandala, Sukta number, primary deity, metre, verse count, traditional Rishi family). They contain no machine-written prose and no claims beyond the cataloguing data.
- Verse-by-verse commentary is drafted with the assistance of large language models, then reviewed by an editor before it is published and cached. It is meant to add philological and contextual reading on top of Griffith's base translation, not to replace it.
- Knowledge-graph connections (the deities, concepts and related Suktas shown on each hymn page) are derived mechanically from an entity-and-relationship index built over the corpus. They are facts about co-occurrence, not interpretation.
- Long-form articles on the blog are researched and written by our editorial team, cite their sources, and are checked by hand.
How we use AI, and where we draw the line
AI is a drafting aid in our workflow, not an autopilot. Specifically:
- No commentary is published without human review.
- AI assistance is disclosed on the pages where it is used.
- We do not mass-publish unreviewed machine output, and individual verse pages - which are largely public-domain text - are deliberately kept out of search and carry no advertising.
- We correct errors promptly when readers report them.
Editorial accountability
Editorial responsibility for this site rests with the Sigmoid Vedanta editorial team at Sigmoid Vedanta Technologies. Corrections, sourcing questions and takedown requests can be sent through the contact form or to sigmoidtechnologies@gmail.com; every submission is logged with a reference id and acknowledged within seventy-two (72) hours.
Reporting an error
If a translation, transliteration or commentary looks wrong, please tell us through the contact form and quote the verse reference (for example, Rig Veda 1.1.1). We review every report and update the page where a correction is warranted.