What is counted here, and what is not
A recitation is one time a passage was chanted; a passage chanted in three talks is three recitations of one passage. The quotes page counts what it could name the same way. The transcription also caught 171 stretches that are not chant — Tamil and Kannada exposition, and the Sanskrit prose of Greatness of Sanskrit, which is delivered in Sanskrit — and those are left out of every number on this page.
Two halves of a śloka chanted with only a breath between them are one passage, not two. Where nothing but a pause separates two pieces of Sanskrit, they are listed together.
The dhyāna-ślokas have moved to the index
The invocations that used to head this list — the dhyāna-ślokas to Śāradā, Sarasvatī, Śaṅkara and Śiva that open the discourses — are now named from a short list kept by hand, at the maṭha’s request: 32 recitations, searchable on the quotes page as dhyana. Their wording awaits the maṭha’s confirmation. More can be added the same way.
The closing nāmaghoṣa is not here
«हर नमः पार्वतीपतये हर हर महादेव», which closes 23 of the talks, is an acclamation rather than a text to be found. It is named from the same hand-kept list and counted on its own, in neither this list nor the recitations of verses.
Why this list is worth a text
Every passage here was chanted at every timestamp shown, and no text in the corpus can put a name to it. Digitizing one text on this list names it in every talk at once, including the talks not yet run.
Nothing here is named, and nothing here should be guessed at
Every passage was chanted and placed on the clock by measurement against the audio. None is addressed to any text, and none is guessed at: a machine’s guess under a Jagadguru’s chant would look exactly like an attribution and carry none of the weight of one. What is offered is the audio, the timestamp, and the characters as transcribed.
Those characters come from automatic transcription. A passage that reads as broken Sanskrit may be the transcription rather than the chanting — play the timestamp before concluding anything about it.
A timestamp is where the transcription starts
Each passage is shown as its fullest transcription. Where a recitation’s opening was not transcribed, its timestamp is the first word that was — so the chanting begins a little before it. There are 13 such onsets, marked part.