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Joy Bose
The authors measure lexical resemblance across Buddhist Tara, transitional Bridge Tara, Shakta Kali, and Vaishnava Sanskrit texts to assess a proposed Buddhist–Shakta connection. They represent documents with character n-grams and compare cosine similarity. Bridge Tara–Kali averages 0.54, versus 0.00 for Vaishnava Sanskrit–Kali. This supports a tradition-specific pattern, but genre and script differences mean it does not prove historical borrowing.
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