Śrī Amara Rāmāyaṇa

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• Title and identity are verified at PDF page 3 / Archive leaf n2.
• Rasik Alī’s identity and reception account are verified at PDF page 8 / Archive leaf n7.
• PDF pages 17–19 / Archive leaves n16–n18 are a visually checked three-page contents table. It reports the sarga sequence and says the first sarga ends on printed page 24. This is a reported contents endpoint, not yet root-colophon verification.
• The root opening is verified at PDF page 22 / Archive leaf n21. After separate title and vandanā leaves, the Sanskrit discourse begins under the Śrī Amara Rāmāyaṇa heading with Bharadvāja’s numbered verse 1 question to Yājñavalkya, followed by Hindi commentary.
• Terminal matter is verified at PDF page 581 / Archive leaf n580 / printed page 522: verse 545 of sarga 63, followed by the root colophon, commentator colophon, and a concluding Hindi poem.
• PDF pages 582–587 are errata leaves following the terminal matter.

Attribution roles remain distinct

Chapter Eight associates the work with Janakarāja Kiśorī Śaraṇa, called Rasik Alī. The title and biographical matter present him as receiver, writer, transmitter, and commentator of the Amara narrative. The root colophon attributes the Amara Rāmāyaṇa itself to Śaṅkara. This checkpoint does not collapse those different reception, transmission, commentary, and root-attribution claims into one modern authorship label.

Precise gaps

• The contents table reports that the first sarga ends on printed page 24, but this endpoint and the full 63-sarga sequence have not yet been reconciled against the actual root colophons.
• A full leaf-by-leaf page-continuity and duplication audit has not been completed.
• The reported extent of approximately 4,000 verses has not been independently counted.
• The Sanskrit root and interleaved Hindi commentary have not been separated across the volume.
• No Sanskrit root verse has been manually transcribed and checked against the scan.
• No fresh English translation has been prepared.
• No unit-level editorial notes have been prepared.
• No scripture reader has been prepared.
• No print or download edition has been prepared.
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Excluded modern hymn files

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