वंशनिधिVamshanidhi
The civilizational memory of Bhārat — temples, manuscripts, inscriptions, sacred geography, and verified Indic kinship: gotra, pravara, sapinda, lineage — in one federated open registry. Held to scholar concurrence; free to search, built to outlast us.
- Temples catalogued
- 80,788
As of 16 June 2026
- Manuscripts federated
- 1,889
5 library partners
- Kinship terms mapped
- 100
multilingual
- Federated sources
- 5
institutional archives
- University of Pennsylvania
- Cambridge Digital Library
- Bodleian Libraries
- Internet Archive
- Wikidata
Sapinda is live law. This is the registry built for it.
In Neetu Grover v. Union of India (Delhi High Court, 2024), the sapinda prohibition annulled a real marriage — and the court held that custom must be proven with evidence. Vamshanidhi computes sagotra, pravara and sapinda verdicts with smriti citations, on records that carry provenance back to source. The pothi registers of Haridwar sit as scans in foreign custody; the computation lives here.
Everything in one archive.
Each domain is its own register — catalogued, attested, and named. Provenance is always visible; nothing here is anonymous.
Temples devālaya
Standing and lost temples from state endowment rolls, ASI protected monuments, and community-attested shrines across every state and union territory.
ProvisionalManuscripts hastalipi
Palm-leaf, birch-bark, and paper manuscripts from five library partners, served via IIIF v3 deep-zoom and multi-script transliteration search.
ProvisionalInscriptions śilālekha
Stone and copper-plate epigraphs with transcription, translation, and dynastic attribution. Scholar disputes are surfaced inline, never hidden.
ProvisionalScriptures śāstra
ProvisionalVillages grāma
ProvisionalVamsha vaṃśa
ProvisionalPilgrimage tīrtha
Pilgrimage circuits (yātrā) reconstructed from temple textuality, Sthala Purāṇa references, and surveyed station geography.
ProvisionalMarriage match vivāha
Check a marriage match — sapinda, gotra and pravara verdicts with smriti citations. No login needed.
ProvisionalA federated peer to the Bodleian, Cambridge, UPenn and the Internet Archive.
We do not extract; we synchronize. Every record carries its provenance back to source and emits a citation other scholars can trust.
Open the archive.
Search by name, gotra, village, dynasty, or inscription. Results are evidence-first.
SearchAdd a record.
A temple, an oral history, a manuscript folio, a kinship term. Contributors are named.
ContributeCite. Federate. Ratify.
Cite by URN. Export IIIF manifests. Federate a new collection as a peer.
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