Language & translation policy

What is available now

The maintained editorial edition is English. The site does not currently publish separate Hindi, Gujarati, Tamil, Telugu, Bengali, or other language editions, and it does not present automatic browser translation as an editorial translation.

Transliteration is not translation

Sanskrit terms may appear in a reader-friendly spelling and, where useful, in standard scholarly transliteration. Regional pronunciations and spellings differ. Transliteration helps represent a word; it does not by itself explain what the word means in a text, ritual, or living community.

Browser translation

Readers may use browser or device translation tools, but automated output can mishandle religious vocabulary, names, grammar, and context. A machine translation should not be cited as if Hinduism Insights had edited or approved it.

If editorial translations are added later

A future translated edition would require human editorial review, source checking, consistent terminology, and separate quality control. Until that work exists, the site will not advertise unfinished language editions across every page.

Why this page is not in search

This policy is maintained for transparency, not as a standalone search destination. The main educational library remains the focus of indexing.