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The authorship of the Chāndogyopaniṣad-Bhāṣya: A stylometric approach

This paper discusses the application of contemporary authorship verification methods to a Sanskrit text. An appropriate example through which to explicate this issue is the commentary on the Chāndogya-Upaniṣad, which is traditionally attributed to Śaṅkara. This paper is focused on a stylometric authorship verification method, the recently introduced General Imposters framework. First, two ways of preparing Sanskrit texts are described ; one is the time- consuming manual separation of words and resolving sandhi, and the other is the automatic segmentation of the text into 3- grams. The paper reports that word segmentation yields better results than 3- grams in the case of texts with confirmed authorship. In the next step, the GI procedure applied to the Chāndogya-Upaniṣad-Bhāṣya itself confirms Śaṅkara’s authorship.

authorship verification ; stylometry ; Imposters ; Śaṅkara ; Advaita ; n-grams

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