Dharma Point of View

DharmaWiki portal is a platform for like-minded people, to read, discuss and contribute to the knowledge base of the subjects based on Sanatana Dharma and Shastras. Generally speaking it is a public source of narratives for widely accepted knowledge base of Vaidika Dharma or Sanatana Dharma.

Content Policies of DharmaWiki

The article and topic contributions on this portal are built keeping in mind the following must have aspects.

Dharmawiki Content Policies

मूलसिद्धान्तसमैक्यता ॥ Integral Unity of Sanatana Dharma

अनुवाद-अनीयता ॥ Non-translatability

परीक्षणम् ॥ Verifiability

रचनासौष्ठवम् ॥ Towards Diligence

• मूलसिद्धान्तसमैक्यता ॥ Integral Unity of Sanatana Dharma : Narratives highlight the rich diversity of various traditions with emphasis on the integral unity of core principles of Sanatana Dharma.
• अनुवाद-अनीयता ॥ Non-translatability : English or any language is grossly insufficient to explain the numerous nuances of the divine language Samskrit. Hence words such as Moksha translated as 'liberation' or 'release from bondage' do not exactly stand for Moksha. Hence such words, viz., atma, karma, moksha, sat, chit, etc are used as is in the narratives. We keep adding to the list of such words here.
• परीक्षणम् ॥ Verifiability : Articles should contain references to primary sources which are properly cited at appropriate places to ensure verifiability of references cited.
• रचनासौष्ठवम् ॥ Towards Diligence : The quality goals of narratives compiled here include : good research (after svadhaya) maintaining depth of the subject, towards comprehensiveness and consistency. It is to be noted that the articles are foundational to provide a discussion platform and they are gradually refined over time with more scholarly inputs. Interdisciplinary extrapolations, and psychoanalysis are strongly discouraged here.

Scope of DharmaWiki

The article and topic contributions on this portal have the following additional views with an aim to include more insights in future.

Scope of Dharmawiki

संप्रदायसिद्धविषयः ॥ Sampradayasiddha Vishya

व्यासादि ऋषिपरंपरा ॥ Vysadi Rshi Parampara

पुरुषार्थदृष्टिः ॥ Purushartha Drshti

कालानुक्रमणिका न ॥ No Dating or Chronology of Texts

भारतीय विद्वत्समीक्षा ॥ Bharat's Scholarly Views

संस्कृतमूलम् ॥ Original Samskrit Sources

• संप्रदायसिद्धविषयः ॥ Sampradayasiddha Vishya: Handed down from generations this dharmika tradition belonged to the people of Bharatavarsha and it is our right as well as duty to protect and proliferate it.
• व्यासादि ऋषिपरंपरा ॥ Vysadi Rshi Parampara: Articles adhere to the concepts propounded in texts given by our Rshi Parampara including Maharshi Vedavyasa's Vedas and Vedanta along with other allied traditional literature (such as Vedangas and Smrtis).
• पुरुषार्थदृष्टिः ॥ Purushartha Drshti : Revitalize the society to perform activities for achieving welfare of one and all employing the Purushartha views and not for Svartha (selfishness) or individual goals.
• कालानुक्रमणिका न ॥ No Dating or Chronology of Texts : The subject of establishing timeframes of Vedas, vedic texts, or any other allied literature will not be attempted here. Concept of Sanatanata (timelessness) of the vedic literature is adopted.
• भारतीय विद्वत्समीक्षा ॥ Bharat's Scholarly Views : The field of "Indology", which developed in the past 300 years and is largely controlled till date by western academia, is now presented here with perspectives of traditional Bharat's academia to dispel myths created by western indoctrination. Narratives include prose quotations, slokas, and mantras available in samskrit texts along with basic translation to place the perspective before the reader. Research work done by students, academic paper presentations, poster presentations, publications and conference proceedings of revered scholars are explored and used for references.
• संस्कृतमूलम् ॥ Original Samskrit Sources : Articles contain the original samskrit references from traditional texts (Vedas, Vaidika Vangmaya, Puranas, Itihasas etc) with their sources cited to enable anyone with knowledge of Samskrit to personally make their interpretations.

Dharmawiki Users

Authors who contribute on this portal are essentially like-minded registered users with a passion to play their role in furthering Sanatana Dharma for the generations to come. Narratives on DharmaWiki are built by an ever growing team of qualified authors and editors coming from diverse educational, spiritual and cultural backgrounds yet each of them have sound technical knowledge. Every editor and author should bear the following principles at heart

• Dedication to the core ideas and concepts of this project
• Engage in active research of subject matter
• Engage in consultation with scholars and peers
• Content verification

The following are the different roles of people associated with the site in one or many ways.

• Dharmawiki Editor is one who is engaged in the core team, in building the site contents and plays an active role in decision making working along with the other team members and scholars. They have administrative rights and have approval powers to make significant changes both technically and content wise. They moderate, guide and channelize the other users on the site.

• Guest Author is a registered user who is engaged with Dharmawiki project in content related aspects. Their inputs and suggestions are received by the moderators who discuss them with the core team and incorporate them as required. They are the primary resources for articles on various subject matters and should adhere to the Content Policies while creating the articles. They are registered users with restricted editing rights, whose interests and profile are kept on file in the site, and can contribute articles once approved by the core team.
• Unregistered User is the end user, visiting the site, interested in knowing about Sanatana Dharma, wanting to adopt dharmika jivana vidhana. Unregistered users, at this juncture, are restricted to edit the article or narratives. Users can however, present their thoughts, views, references, video links, blog references, images etc on the Discussion or Talk pages. Few others who may visit the site for learning or engaging in a debate about any topic of their concern can do so using the Discussion and Talk tabs of that topic. Users can potentially become guest authors on the site by sending an email to dharmawiki2018@gmail.com or by requesting an account on Dharmawiki site. Upon acceptance they can contribute articles or narratives within the framework of Dharmawiki policies.

Wikipedia Model

DharmaWiki greatly relies on the Wikipedia software to construct the structure and build a repository of articles. Styled in the lines of Wikipedia, Dharmawiki is a dynamic platform, a repository for Vaidika and Dharmika esoteric and general concepts and guidelines. However, Dharmawiki has several distinct features that sets it apart from the Wikipedia itself along with the hundreds of articles, blogs and forums found these days on the internet.   

Disclaimer

All the information on this website is published in good faith and for general information purpose only. The Ancient Indian Wisdom website development is still not complete. This is a beta-launch to get the wealth of authentic articles in front of our avid readers and scholars. Currently, media, images, videos development along with article updates is underway. Please pardon any discrepancies in the mean-time and check back for frequent updates and new articles"