Sanatan knowledge was written down, taught in schools, argued over in commentaries, and carried away by people who came here to study. What happened afterwards is not in dispute: the knowledge kept travelling and the names of the people who produced it stopped being taught. This page puts those names back, one stream at a time.
0 of 31 streams answer all four — who, when, which text, on whose authority. The rest are being sourced at the source desk, where only a human may mark a chain verified.
45 records, oldest first. 41 name a Sanskrit work. 0 have the manuscript itself uploaded — that library is still to come. A title is never assumed: Rishi is used only for figures the tradition identifies that way, and later mathematicians, physicians, grammarians and astronomers are shown as acharya, author or as the tradition they belong to.
The honest shape of the record. Caraka did not invent medicine; the Atreya–Agnivesa–Caraka tradition produced the Carakasamhita.