Work Classification Layer
Compare Works
Pick two or more works to set their attribute fingerprints, dimension-by-dimension passages, and shared school embodiments side by side. Especially useful for author-stage comparisons (Wittgenstein early vs late) and for setting a single tradition's foundational texts against each other.
Vidhi-viveka
Maṇḍana's 'Vidhi-viveka' — defining Mīmāṃsā analysis of Vedic injunction (vidhi)
Attribute Fingerprint
Rows where works disagree are highlighted in gold. The full ontology grid is shown.
| Attribute | Vidhi-viveka (Mature) |
|---|---|
| Time · Extent | Infinite |
| Time · Ontological Status | Substantival |
| Time · Grain | Continuous |
| Time · Freedom | Both |
| Time · Traversability | Cyclical |
| Time · Dimensionality | One |
| Time · Direction | Uni-directional |
| Space · Extent | Infinite |
| Space · Ontological Status | Substantival |
| Space · Curvature | Flat |
| Space · Dimensionality | Three |
| Space · Locality | Local |
| Matter · Extent | Finite |
| Matter · Ontological Status | Substantival |
| Matter · Conservation | Conserved |
| Matter · Dimensionality | Three |
| Matter · Locality | Local |
| Observer · Time Instance | Multiple |
| Observer · Space Instance | Single |
| Observer · Knowledge Extent | Mediate |
| Observer · Knowledge Retainment | Total |
| Observer · Physicality | Embodied |
| Observer · Agency | Active |
| Observer · Number | Plural |
| Observer · Metaphysical Agency | Impersonal |
| Observer · Moral Authority | Revelation |
| Observer · Theological Method | — |
| Energy · Extent | Finite |
| Energy · Ontological Status | Substantival |
| Energy · Conservation | Conserved |
| Energy · Dispersibility | Irreversible |
| Information · Ontological Status | Substantival |
| Information · Cosmic Conservation | Conserved |
| Information · Personal Conservation | Conserved |
| Information · Granularity | Continuous |
Dimension-by-Dimension Evidence
What each work's passages reveal about its stance on each of the six dimensions.
Time
Vidhi-viveka
c. 8th century. Maṇḍana's pre-Vedantic Mīmāṃsā period.
Space
Vidhi-viveka
Mahishmati (Maṇḍana's traditional residence — in Madhya Pradesh on the Narmada).
Matter
Vidhi-viveka
Sanskrit Mīmāṃsā treatise (~300 pages in standard editions). Form is sustained philosophical-systematic argument with extensive engagement with Kumārila and the Prābhākara school.
Observer
Vidhi-viveka
Mature Maṇḍana. The observer is the leading Mīmāṃsā philosopher of his generation, working in the Kumārila tradition.
Energy
Vidhi-viveka
Classical-Mīmāṃsā philosophical energies. The treatise combines the technical analysis of injunctive language with the broader philosophical-religious framework of Mīmāṃsā ritual hermeneutics.
Information
Vidhi-viveka
Single substantial treatise. The śabdī-bhāvanā / ārthī-bhāvanā analysis is the central informational structure.
Internal Tensions
Where each work's argument pulls against itself.
Principal Mīmāṃsā statement on the philosophy of injunctive language; major source for subsequent Sanskrit philosophy of language. Continuously read in classical Indian-philosophical scholarship; the bhāvanā analysis has been productive in contemporary Sanskrit-philosophical work on the philosophy of language and action (especially the contemporary Mīmāṃsā revival by Daya Krishna and others).