Created: 23-05-2026 · Last updated: 19-10-2026

title: Citation tracer

Citation tracer

Follow a cited source back to the MW entries that cite it, and from an explicit Ṛgveda locus out to the passage in a stable external edition. This is the entry-level counterpart of the frequency graph on citation-canon: the graph says how often a text is cited; this page says where.

Passage pilot — Ṛgveda to GRETIL

MW writes Ṛgveda loci explicitly (RV. v, 86, 5 = maṇḍala 5, hymn 86, verse 5), so no alignment is needed: parse the locus and link to GRETIL's per-verse anchor in the Aufrecht edition. The pilot carries the 100 most-cited distinct RV verse loci; every link was checked for HTTP 200 and for the presence of its RV_<maṇḍala>.<hymn>.<verse> anchor.

Trust Block

• Evidence: data/citations/source-to-entries.json (209 canonical labels; 213,906 of 320,828 MW citations resolved) and data/citations/citation-passage-links.json (100 RV verse loci, all HTTP 200 with anchors present on 19-10-2026).
• Limitations: MW only; locus parsing covers explicit RV verse citations only. GRETIL is a link-out target and is not ingested. A verified anchor proves the passage exists, not that MW's quotation is accurate.
• Validation: npm run build-citation-passage-index, npm run verify-citation-passage-links, and node --test test/citation-passage-index.test.mjs; the page is built by npm run build.
• Owner repo: csl-atlas.
• Next use: pick a source, open the citing MW entry, then follow the RV locus to the edition.

Data: source-to-entries.json · citation-passage-links.json · data/citations/README.md. CC-BY-SA-4.0.

Dr. Mārcis Gasūns