The recorded discourses of the Jagadgurus of Sringeri

Jagadguru Anugraha Bhāṣaṇam जगद्गुरु अनुग्रह भाषणम्

An anugraha bhāṣaṇam is the Jagadguru’s benedictory address, and the Jagadgurus chant in them constantly — a verse of the Gītā, a line of Śaṅkara, a śloka from a Purāṇa, quoted from memory and carried straight on in Tamil. These pages take 41 such recordings and place every verse chanted in them on the clock of the recording, so that a verse can be asked for and answered in the Jagadguru’s own voice.

257recitations named
164distinct verses
18.7hours of discourse
206chanted, not yet named

A recitation is one time a verse was chanted: 257 recitations of 164 different verses, because some are chanted in more than one talk. Another 206 recitations, of 177 passages, could not be named. The Tamil and Kannada exposition around them is not counted.

What the Jagadgurus quote

Ask it for a verse, a chapter or a work. Every answer is a timestamp that opens the recording at the chant. Type Gita 4.34, or भगवद्गीता, or a line of the verse itself.

257recitations 164verses

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Chanted, and not named

The passages the index could not name — chanted, located in time, and matched against nothing, because the texts they come from are not digitized. This is the list of what is worth digitizing next, ranked by how many talks each absence costs.

177passages 7in more than one talk

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How the timestamps were made

The recordings are transcribed, and the Sanskrit in them is matched against an index of the texts. A match is then forced-aligned against the audio itself: the timestamp is a span measured against the waveform, not the boundary of a transcript segment, and it is what makes the link land on the first syllable of the chant rather than somewhere near it.

What the index cannot name is kept rather than dropped. Three quarters of an anugraha bhāṣaṇam is Tamil; the Sanskrit inside it is a few minutes of chant, and the passages that match nothing are the ones that say which text is missing from the corpus. That list is a page of its own here, and it is the useful half of the result.

These pages are a working measurement made from recordings published on the Sringeri maṭha’s public YouTube channel. They are not a publication of the maṭha, and no citation in them carries a scholar’s attestation. Where a citation is wrong, the recording is the authority and the page is not.