License

The Sanskrit mūla — public domain

The received Sanskrit verses (the mūla text) are centuries old and belong to no one. We do not claim, and could not legally claim, any copyright over them — anywhere on this site, in our metadata, or in any correspondence. Copy them freely.

Our own layer — CC BY-SA 4.0

Everything we add around the mūla — the IAST transliteration, our English and Hindi translations, the padapātha/padārtha word-by-word gloss, any commentary or editorial note, and the figures we draw — is original work, licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

In practice, that means you may reuse, translate or adapt our translation and apparatus, including commercially, as long as you:

• Attribute — credit OccultGuide and link back to the page you drew from.
• Share alike — if you publish a modified or derivative version, it carries the same CC BY-SA 4.0 license, not a more restrictive one.

Third-party data we use

The list of cities you can compute dates for is derived from GeoNames, used under CC BY 4.0. Sun and moon positions are computed with the Swiss Ephemeris. Neither carries any of our own editorial layer, and nothing about a reader is sent to either — both are consulted when the site is built, never when it is read.

Licensor

The CC BY-SA 4.0 layer is licensed by the company that owns and operates OccultGuide:

Citing a verse

Every verse on a scripture reader page carries its own "Cite" button with a ready-made plain-text citation. Machine-readable data for a single verse is also available at its own JSON URL, printed alongside the verse.