Those Who Saw, and Those Who Taught
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Not a list of names but a map of contribution — who saw the mantras, who wrote the scriptures, who taught the kings, who healed, who measured the sky, and who carried the teaching forward.
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Mantra Drashta
Who Saw the Mantra
Before a mantra is recited it is traditionally introduced by its viniyoga — the seer who received it, the metre it is set in, the deity it addresses, and its seed, power and pin. This is the frame every traditional recitation is set within.
Viniyoga attributions differ between sampradayas and between printed editions. Where a mantra has more than one traditional seer, both are given rather than one being chosen.
A Note on Sources
These profiles draw on the Vedas, the Upanishads, the Ramayana and Mahabharata, the Puranas and the classical treatises themselves. Where a figure is historical — Panini, Aryabhata, Bhaskaracharya, Ramanuja — dates are given. Where a figure belongs to itihasa and purana, the era is named instead, and the tradition is reported as tradition rather than as settled history.
Where lineages, authorship or dates are genuinely disputed, the dispute is stated instead of being smoothed over. Reverence and accuracy are not in conflict.