Setutila – Preserving Dharma

SETUTILA

Preserving Dharma, One Text at a Time.

Tattvavāda Texts. Critical Editions. Open Access.

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“यस्याम्नायपदाक्षराणि परमं स्वार्थं लभन्ते गुणान् सम्प्रोच्यैव सुबृंहितानि बलवन्न्यायेतिहासादिभिः।
तं सेव्यं मुनिभिः प्रशान्तमनसा भक्त्या भवच्छित्तये स्वानन्दप्रदमिन्दिरापतिमहं भूयोऽभिवन्दे हरिम्॥”

The Concept

Setutila (सेतुतिल) aims to build a comprehensive, open-access, digital repository of Tattvavāda texts to support both traditional studies and academic research.

Key features

  • Scalable architecture for storage, retrieval, and long-term preservation of texts.
  • Infrastructure to enable community collaboration while maintaining one source of truth.
  • Rich metadata, internal hyperlinking, and multi-format export (HTML, PDF, TeX).
  • Systematic proofreading and annotation of topics and variant readings.

This is not merely digitisation. It is a critical edition reimagined for the digital medium — scholarly in depth, accessible in form, open in spirit.

Core Values

🪔 Rooted in the Source

We build foundational resources — repositories, dictionaries, and structured text databases.

📜 Quality consciousness

Every text is carefully proofread, variant readings documented, sources verified, and notes added.

🌿 Tradition Belongs to All

We don’t own this. These works belong to a living tradition. Hence everything we create is open access and copyleft.

🧠 Handmade, Mindful

Built by humans, assisted by tools. Technology supports us, but it does not replace human care, precision, and attention.

Get Involved

Setutila is not just a repository; it is a living community of seekers, scholars, and supporters. There are many ways to be part of this journey:

  • Contribute Scholarship: as a researcher, proofreader, or editor.
  • Volunteer Skills: in technology, design, or linguistics
  • Support as a Patron: to sustain not only scholarship but a tradition of service.

Write to us: seva@setutila.in