Core Glossary
08 — Core Glossary: 2 John (Maithili Destination Package)
A. Baseline Terms Reused Exactly (no new analysis required)
| English/Doctrine | Greek | Maithili (baseline TM) | Risk | 2 John occurrences | Baseline doctrine reused |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grace | χάρις (charis) | अनुग्रह | High | 1:3 | Grace |
| Peace | εἰρήνη (eirēnē) | शान्ति | Medium | 1:3 | Peace with God |
| God | θεός (theos) | परमेश्वर | Critical | 1:3, 1:9 | Deity of Christ / God |
| Father | πατήρ (patēr) | पिता | Critical | 1:3, 1:4, 1:9 | Adoption / Sonship of Christ |
| Jesus | Ἰησοῦς (Iēsous) | यीशु | Critical | 1:3, 1:7 | Lordship of Christ |
| Christ | Χριστός (Christos) | ख्रीष्ट (per 12_ai_translation_requirements transliteration standard; also root of मसीह) | Critical | 1:3, 1:7, 1:9 | Deity of Christ / Messianic Promise |
| Incarnation | ἐρχόμενον ἐν σαρκί (erchomenon en sarki) | देहधारण | Critical | 1:7 | Incarnation |
| Election (root) | ἐκλεκτ- (eklekt-) | चुनल गेल / परमेश्वरक चुनाव (adjectival form built on baseline noun) | High | 1:1, 1:13 | Effectual Calling / Election |
| Messiah (root of compound) | Χριστός → ἀντίχριστος | मसीह (root of मसीह-विरोधी, new compound below) | Critical | 1:7 | Messianic Promise |
B. New Terms Required for This Curriculum (proposed; pending Phase 2 approval and TM integration)
| # | English gloss | Greek (transliteration) | Proposed Maithili | Transliteration | Risk | Doctrine (new/linked) | Rationale / Rejected alternatives | Key passages |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Truth | ἀλήθεια (alētheia) | सत्य | satya | High | Walking in Truth and Love | Standard North Indian Christian rendering; risk of collision with the region’s popular Satyanarayan Vrat Katha devotional-ritual tradition and with Advaitic सत्-चित्-आनन्द metaphysics. Must be anchored as the trustworthy, revealed reality of the gospel/Christ’s person, not a ritual-vow object or impersonal absolute property. No viable alternative rejected outright — सत्य retained but requires a mandatory translator note at first occurrence (1:1). | 1:1, 1:2, 1:3, 1:4, 1:7-11 (thematic) |
| 2 | Love (agape) | ἀγάπη (agapē) | प्रेम | prem | High | Walking in Truth and Love | Rejected: भक्ति (already reserved by baseline for devotional reverence risk under “faith”; would reintroduce Ram-Sita/Shiva bhakti associations here too); शृंगार/प्रीति-रस (Radha-Krishna romantic-erotic devotional poetry register, regionally celebrated via Vidyapati — would badly distort agape’s selfless, obedience-bound sense into romantic passion); स्नेह (too narrow, under-conveys the volitional/obedience-linked sense definitional in 1:6). Every occurrence paired with obedience language must preserve the “love = walking in his commandments” definitional link. | 1:1, 1:3, 1:5, 1:6 |
| 3 | Abide / remain (doctrinal perseverance) | μένω (menō), esp. μένων/μὴ μένων, μένουσαν | बनल रहब (doctrinal sense); रहब (plain “remain,” non-doctrinal sense) | banal rahab / rahab | High | Perseverance in the Teaching of Christ (new doctrine name) | Central Johannine verb; risk of confusion with ascetic self-achieved steadfastness (sthir rahab / tapasyā) rather than grace-sustained fidelity to Christ’s teaching. Must be added to TM with priority given repeated occurrence (1:2, 1:9 x2). | 1:2, 1:9 |
| 4 | Commandment | ἐντολή (entolē) | आज्ञा | ājñā | Medium | (supports Walking in Truth and Love) | Kept formally distinct from baseline’s विश्वासक आज्ञाकारिता (obedience of faith) — आज्ञा names the content commanded, आज्ञाकारिता the resulting obedience. | 1:4, 1:5, 1:6 |
| 5 | World | κόσμος (kosmos) | जगत् (preferred); दुनिया (colloquial, non-theological contexts only) | jagat | High | Warning against Deceivers Denying the Incarnation | Rejected: संसार — carries the specific North Indian Hindu sense of the cyclical, karma-bound realm of rebirth (parallel risk to baseline’s rejection of मुक्ति/मोक्ष for “salvation”); would misdirect this verse toward samsara-cycle associations rather than a simple statement about the inhabited world. | 1:7 |
| 6 | Deceiver | πλάνος/πλάνοι (planos/planoi) | भरमाबएबाला | bharamābaebālā | High | Warning against Deceivers Denying the Incarnation | Rejected: छलिया (suggests petty trickery, not doctrinal subversion). भरमाबएबाला preserves the “leading astray” root sense of πλανάω. | 1:7 |
| 7 | Antichrist | ἀντίχριστος (antichristos) | मसीह-विरोधी | masīh-virodhī | CRITICAL | Warning against Deceivers Denying the Incarnation / Messianic Promise | Built directly on baseline’s established मसीह. Must never soften to a generic “false teacher/opponent” term; names direct hostility to the Messianic promise itself. Mandatory human theologian review at every occurrence, matching baseline’s escalation rule for Messianic Promise references. | 1:7 |
| 8 | Confess (doctrinal acknowledgment) | ὁμολογέω (homologeō), ὁμολογοῦντες | स्वीकार करब | svīkār karab | High | Warning against Deceivers Denying the Incarnation | Kept structurally distinct from the fixed liturgical formula यीशु प्रभु छथि (Romans 10:9, verbatim-locked per baseline consistency rules); ὁμολογέω here names doctrinal acknowledgment of a fact (the incarnation), not the salvation-confession formula. | 1:7 |
| 9 | Son of the Father | υἱὸς τοῦ πατρός (huios tou patros) | पिताक पुत्र | pitāk putra | CRITICAL | Sonship of Christ (baseline doctrine, new phrase) | Theologically equivalent to baseline’s established परमेश्वरक पुत्र (“Son of God”) but a distinct Greek phrase stressing the Father-Son relational pairing. Must convey eternal, timeless Sonship, not a son born within time (risk of assimilation to regional dynastic-birth narratives, e.g. Ram’s birth to Dasharath, per baseline’s sonship_of_christ entry). | 1:3 |
| 10 | Mercy | ἔλεος (eleos) | दया | dayā | Medium | (supports Grace, distinguished) | Consistent with baseline’s own allowance of दया “for ordinary compassion in non-salvific contexts”; ἔλεος (compassion toward need/misery) is precisely that register, distinct from अनुग्रह (unmerited favor). Must be added to TM explicitly so the two terms are never collapsed. | 1:3 |
| 11 | Elder (church office) | πρεσβύτερος (presbyteros) | प्राचीन | prācīn | Medium | Apostleship-adjacent (church leadership authority) | Standard North Indian Christian rendering for the NT church office. Risk (by analogy to baseline’s Apostle entry): must not be read through the lens of the Maithil Brahmin pandit’s Panjikaran-custodian role; this names pastoral-teaching authority, not genealogical/caste-lineage authority. | 1:1 |
| 12 | Elect lady / Kyria | ἐκλεκτῇ κυρίᾳ (eklektē kyria) | चुनल गेल कुरिया | cunal gel Kuriyā | Medium-High | Election (baseline doctrine, extended) | Three-way interpretive ambiguity (individual woman / personified congregation / proper name “Electa”) must be flagged with a translator note at first occurrence. Avoid स्वामिनी as primary gloss for κυρία — risks importing joint-family domestic-hierarchy connotations absent from the Greek address of Christian dignity/affection. | 1:1, 1:5, 1:13 |
| 13 | Children (lit./eccl.) | τέκνα (tekna) | बच्चा-सभ / संतान | baccā-sabh / santān | Low-Medium | (linked to Elect Lady ambiguity above) | If “elect lady” personifies a congregation, “her children” = its members; rendering must not force an exclusively literal biological reading. | 1:1, 1:4, 1:13 |
| 14 | Walk (conduct of life) | περιπατέω (peripateō) | चलब | calab | Medium | Walking in Truth and Love | Natural Maithili conduct-of-life metaphor; must pair with सत्यपर (“on truth”), never with धर्मपर (“on dharma/duty”), to avoid baseline’s rejected धर्म-register for righteousness/law. | 1:4, 1:6 |
| 15 | Goes ahead / transgresses (doctrinal overreach) | προάγων (proagōn) | सीमासँ आगाँ बढ़ि जाएबाला | sīmāsã̃ āgā baṛhi jāebālā | High | Perseverance in the Teaching of Christ | Must explicitly frame “going ahead” as a transgression of a boundary, not a commendable spiritual advance, given the region’s familiar guru-lineage model of progressive spiritual attainment (sādhana stages). | 1:9 |
| 16 | Teaching of Christ | διδαχὴ τοῦ Χριστοῦ (didachē tou Christou) | ख्रीष्टक शिक्षा | khrīṣṭak śikṣā | High | Perseverance in the Teaching of Christ | Core doctrine-naming phrase; must remain terminologically fixed at every occurrence in this curriculum. | 1:9, 1:10 |
| 17 | Receive into the house (hospitality) | λαμβάνετε εἰς οἰκίαν (lambanete eis oikian) | घरमे स्वीकार करब | gharme svīkār karab | CRITICAL (doctrine-culture flag) | Hospitality and Doctrinal Discernment | Direct tension with the widely-held अतिथि देवो भव (“guest is God”) cultural norm and Mithila’s own strong customary hospitality practices. Doctrinal boundary must not be softened, but a mandatory translator note must distinguish this narrow prohibition (formally sponsoring a Christ-denying teacher’s public ministry) from general Christian hospitality, which Scripture elsewhere commends (cf. Romans 12:13). Flag for combined theologian + native-speaker review. | 1:10 |
| 18 | Say “Greetings!” (formal endorsement greeting) | χαίρειν λέγειν (chairein legein) | नमस्कार कहब / स्वागत करब | namaskār kahab / svāgat karab | High | Hospitality and Doctrinal Discernment | नमस्कार functions both as ordinary greeting and religious salutation in Maithili; test both proposed renderings with native speakers to isolate the “formal endorsement” sense without implying a ban on basic civility. | 1:10, 1:11 |
| 19 | Share/participate in (negative: complicity) | κοινωνέω (koinōneō) | भागीदार बनब | bhāgīdār banab | Medium-High | (contrasted with baseline’s Christian Fellowship doctrine) | Deliberately distinct from baseline’s सङ्गति (reserved for the positive sense of Christian fellowship/κοινωνία); using सङ्गति here would blur a previously-positive term into a negative moral-complicity context. | 1:11 |
| 20 | Evil works/deeds | ἔργα…πονηρά (erga ponēra) | दुष्ट काज | duṣṭa kāj | Medium | (supports Hospitality and Doctrinal Discernment) | Use काज (neutral “deed/task”), never कर्म, to avoid importing karma-doctrine causal-consequence overtones already flagged as a risk under baseline’s Grace entry (कर्मफल). | 1:11 |
| 21 | Full reward | μισθὸν πλήρη (misthon plērē) | पूर्ण प्रतिफल | pūrṇa pratiphal | Medium-High | (guards Grace/merit boundary, baseline-linked) | Avoid फल alone or कर्म-फल-adjacent phrasing; प्रतिफल is a distinct compound that reads as gracious recompense for perseverance, not karmic entitlement earned by religious merit — preserves the same grace/merit boundary the baseline protects in Romans 3-4 and 11:5-6. | 1:8 |
| 22 | Joy (fulfilled/complete) | χαρά (chara), πεπληρωμένη (peplērōmenē) | आनन्द (+ पूर्ण होएब) | ānand | Medium | (minor, relational) | आनन्द is common and low-risk in ordinary speech, but its co-occurrence with सत्य within this short letter warrants a shared translator note distinguishing ordinary relational Christian joy from the Advaitic सत्-चित्-आनन्द metaphysical triad. | 1:12 |
| 23 | Elder’s greeting to the addressee’s sister congregation | ἀσπάζεταί σε (aspazetai se) | नमस्कार पठबैत छथि | namaskār paṭhabait chathi | Low | (ordinary closing; contrast with 1:10-11) | Ordinary, non-doctrinal epistolary greeting; underscores by contrast that the vv.10-11 prohibition is narrowly doctrinal, not a general anti-greeting rule. | 1:13 |
C. Low-Risk / Non-Theological Terms (recorded for completeness; automated review sufficient)
| English gloss | Greek | Maithili | Risk | Passage |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ask/request (entreaty register) | ἐρωτῶ (erōtō) | विनती करब (baseline-consistent with exhort entry) | Low | 1:5 |
| From the beginning | ἀπ᾽ ἀρχῆς (ap’ archēs) | आरम्भसँ | Low | 1:5, 1:6 |
| Forever | εἰς τὸν αἰῶνα (eis ton aiōna) | सदाकाल / अनन्तकाल तक | Low | 1:2 |
| Watch yourselves | βλέπετε ἑαυτούς (blepete heautous) | अपना पर धियान राखू | Low | 1:8 |
| Worked for/labored | εἰργασάμεθα (eirgasametha) | मेहनति कएल / परिश्रम कएल | Low | 1:8 |
| Paper and ink | χάρτου καὶ μέλανος (chartou kai melanos) | कागज आ स्याही | Low | 1:12 |
| Mouth to mouth / face to face | στόμα πρὸς στόμα (stoma pros stoma) | आमने-सामने | Low | 1:12 |
D. Risk Summary for This Curriculum
| Risk tier | Count (new terms, Section B) | Requires |
|---|---|---|
| Critical | 3 (Antichrist, Son of the Father, Receive into the house) | Human theologian review, every occurrence |
| High | 10 (Truth, Love, Abide/Remain, World, Deceiver, Confess, Goes ahead/transgresses, Teaching of Christ, Say “Greetings”, Elect lady) | Human theologian review |
| Medium | 8 (Commandment, Mercy, Elder, Children, Walk, Share/participate, Evil works, Joy) | Native speaker review |
| Medium-High (borderline, treat as High for routing) | 2 (Full reward, — Elect lady already counted above) | Native speaker + theologian spot-check |
| Low | 7 (Section C) | Automated review |
Total new terms proposed for 2 John package: 23 (Section B) + 7 (Section C) = 30. Baseline terms reused exactly: 9 (Section A).
This glossary, together with analysis/07_semantic_analysis.md, is ready to feed Phase 1 Step 2 (translation memory update) and the construction of a 2 John-specific doctrine risk registry extending — and never contradicting — the Romans baseline.
Critical Risk Terms
God
Approved rendering: परमेश्वर
Transliteration: parameśvar
Doctrine: Warning against Deceivers Denying the Incarnation / Eternal Sonship of Christ
Rejected alternatives: भगवान, ईश्वर
Original: θεός
Category: God
Inherited from Romans package, reused EXACTLY. NEW GRAMMATICAL FLAG specific to 2 John 1:9: the Maithili verb governing परमेश्वर as grammatical object (‘does not have God’) must still take honorific verb agreement (छथि-family), never a lower-register existential verb (अछि), even when God is the object rather than the subject of the clause.
Father
Approved rendering: पिता
Transliteration: pitā
Doctrine: Eternal Sonship of Christ (Father-Son formula) / Grace, Mercy, and Peace
Rejected alternatives: ब्रह्मा, सृष्टिकर्ता
Original: πατήρ
Category: God
Inherited from Romans package, reused EXACTLY. Appears in 2 John 1:3, 1:4, and 1:9. Same honorific-verb-agreement flag as परमेश्वर above applies wherever पिता is the grammatical object (1:9: ‘has both the Father and the Son’).
Jesus
Approved rendering: यीशु
Transliteration: Yīśu
Doctrine: Warning against Deceivers Denying the Incarnation / Eternal Sonship of Christ
Rejected alternatives: ईसा
Original: Ἰησοῦς
Category: Christology
Inherited from Romans package, reused EXACTLY. Appears in 2 John 1:3 and 1:7 (‘Jesus Christ coming in the flesh’).
Son Of God
Approved rendering: परमेश्वरक पुत्र
Transliteration: parameśvarak putra
Doctrine: Eternal Sonship of Christ (Father-Son formula)
Rejected alternatives: ईश्वरक अंश, देवपुरुष
Inherited from Romans package, reused EXACTLY. Retained here as the explicit cross-reference anchor for the NEW phrase पिताक पुत्र (‘the Father’s Son’), which 2 John 1:3 uses instead of the more familiar ‘Son of God’ construction. Both phrases name the identical Critical doctrine — eternal, co-equal, timeless Sonship within the Godhead — and must be treated by reviewers as theologically equivalent, never as a lesser or informal variant.
Incarnation
Approved rendering: देहधारण
Transliteration: dehadhāraṇ
Doctrine: Warning against Deceivers Denying the Incarnation
Rejected alternatives: पुनर्जन्म, पुनर्जीवन, अवतार
Original: ἐρχόμενον ἐν σαρκί
Category: Christology
Inherited from Romans package, reused EXACTLY. NEVER अवतार. In 2 John 1:7 this is the single highest-stakes occurrence of this term in the whole curriculum: unlike Romans 1:3/8:3 (background Christology), 2 John 1:7 is an explicit polemic naming DENIAL of exactly this doctrine as the defining mark of ‘deceivers’ and ‘the antichrist.’ A mandatory translator note distinguishing देहधारण from अवतार is REQUIRED at every occurrence in this letter (escalated from ‘recommended’ in the Romans package to ‘required’ here), because Mithila is the Ramayana’s own geographic setting (Sita’s mythological birthplace, the Sita-Ram marriage site at Janakpur) and an audience primed to hear avatar-descent categories is especially vulnerable to reading this denial as a minor variant-tradition dispute rather than a gospel-denying heresy.
Messiah
Approved rendering: मसीह
Transliteration: masīh
Doctrine: Warning against Deceivers Denying the Incarnation (root of Antichrist compound)
Rejected alternatives: अभिषिक्त पुरुष, अवतारी पुरुष
Inherited from Romans package, reused EXACTLY. Retained here as the root of the new compound मसीह-विरोधी (‘antichrist,’ see below). Must not be assimilated to Ram or Krishna as awaited/celebrated avatar-figures within Mithila’s own Vaishnava devotional tradition.
Antichrist
Approved rendering: मसीह-विरोधी
Transliteration: masīh-virodhī
Doctrine: Warning against Deceivers Denying the Incarnation
Rejected alternatives: सामान्य ‘झूठा गुरु’ या ‘विरोधी’ शब्द (generic false-teacher/opponent term)
Original: ἀντίχριστος
Category: Christology
NEW — built directly on the established baseline term मसीह. 2 John 1:7. Must NEVER be softened to a generic ‘false teacher’ or ‘opponent’; it names direct hostility to the Messianic promise itself, matching the baseline’s Critical messianic_promise doctrine. Mandatory human theologian review at EVERY occurrence, matching the baseline’s escalation rule for Messianic Promise references. This is a coined compound with no prior circulation in Maithili and must not be misheard as merely ‘a religious rival.‘
Son Of The Father
Approved rendering: पिताक पुत्र
Transliteration: pitāk putra
Doctrine: Eternal Sonship of Christ (Father-Son formula)
Original: υἱὸς τοῦ πατρός
Category: Christology
NEW compound, built on baseline’s established पिता plus native genitive -क. 2 John 1:3 only (‘Jesus Christ, the Father’s Son’). Theologically equivalent to baseline’s established परमेश्वरक पुत्र (‘Son of God’) but a distinct Greek phrase (υἱὸς τοῦ πατρός) stressing the intimate Father-Son relational pairing. Must convey eternal, timeless Sonship, NOT a son born within time — a live risk given the region’s dynastic/royal-birth narrative frame (e.g. Ram’s birth to King Dasharath), the identical comparison risk the baseline’s sonship_of_christ entry already names.
Receive Into House
Approved rendering: घरमे स्वीकार करब
Transliteration: gharme svīkār karab
Doctrine: Hospitality and Doctrinal Discernment
Original: λαμβάνω εἰς οἰκίαν
Category: Hospitality
NEW. 2 John 1:10 only. CRITICAL cultural-collision flag: direct tension with अतिथि देवो भव (‘the guest is God’), a maxim with wide currency across North Indian Hindu households, reinforced regionally by Mithila’s own customary hospitality norms (festival and life-cycle guest-honoring, e.g. baraat/wedding-party hospitality). A literal, unexplained rendering risks being heard as a command to violate a near-sacred social duty. The doctrinal boundary must NOT be softened, but a MANDATORY translator note must distinguish this narrow prohibition (formally sponsoring/publicly endorsing a Christ-denying teacher’s ministry) from ordinary Christian hospitality, which Scripture elsewhere commends (cf. Romans 12:13). Flag for combined theologian + native-speaker review.
Christ
Approved rendering: ख्रीष्ट
Transliteration: khrīṣṭ
Doctrine: Warning against Deceivers Denying the Incarnation / Eternal Sonship of Christ
Rejected alternatives: मसीह (reserved for explicit messianic-promise contexts, e.g. मसीह-विरोधी, and for the compound ‘antichrist’)
Original: Χριστός
Category: Christology
NEW as a standalone TM entry for this package, though it formalizes the transliteration standard already fixed in 12_ai_translation_requirements.md (‘Christ = ख्रीष्ट / मसीह’). Use ख्रीष्ट in compound doctrinal phrases (ख्रीष्टक शिक्षा) and general Christological reference (1:3, 1:9); reserve मसीह for explicit messianic-promise contexts. Never assimilate to Ram/Krishna as a regional avatar-figure.
High Risk Terms
Grace
Approved rendering: अनुग्रह
Transliteration: anugraha
Doctrine: Grace, Mercy, and Peace (2 John 1:3 triad; extends Romans baseline Grace)
Rejected alternatives: कृपा, दया, पुण्य, कर्मफल, भाग
Original: χάρις
Category: Salvation
Inherited from Romans package (baseline translation_memory.json v1), reused EXACTLY, no changes. In 2 John 1:3 this is the first term of the threefold greeting ‘grace, mercy, peace’ (a formula distinctive to the Johannine/Pastoral epistles vs. Paul’s usual twofold greeting). Must remain strictly distinct from the new term ‘mercy’ (दया) below — अनुग्रह names unmerited salvific favor countering the karma-merit worldview; दया names compassion toward need/misery specifically. All baseline cultural-collision notes (karma-merit worldview; Sita’s self-sacrificial devotion as a false illustrative model) apply identically here.
Election
Approved rendering: परमेश्वरक चुनाव
Transliteration: parameśvarak cunāv
Doctrine: Divine Election / Chosen Status (extends Romans baseline Election)
Rejected alternatives: भाग्य, किस्मत, प्रारब्ध
Inherited from Romans package, reused EXACTLY. Retained as the root noun for the adjectival form चुनल गेल used in 2 John 1:1, 1:5, and 1:13 (‘elect lady’, ‘elect sister’). God’s sovereign personal choice, never karma-determined fate (प्रारब्ध).
Truth
Approved rendering: सत्य
Transliteration: satya
Doctrine: Walking in Truth and Love
Original: ἀλήθεια
Category: Faith
NEW. Occurs 5 times in 2 John’s 13 verses (1:1, 1:2, 1:3, 1:4 x2) and anchors the whole letter. No viable lexical alternative exists in Maithili; risk is managed via mandatory translator note rather than substitution. Collision risk 1: the popular Satyanarayan Vrat Katha (a Vishnu-centered ritual-vow reading ceremony) ties सत्य to a ritual object of observance. Collision risk 2: Advaita Vedanta’s सत्-चित्-आनन्द (Being-Consciousness-Bliss) triad, in which सत्य names an impersonal metaphysical attribute of the Absolute. A mandatory translator note at first occurrence (1:1) must anchor सत्य as ‘the trustworthy, revealed reality of the gospel and of Christ’s own person and teaching’ — personal and relational, not ritual-vow or impersonal-metaphysical.
Love
Approved rendering: प्रेम
Transliteration: prem
Doctrine: Walking in Truth and Love
Rejected alternatives: भक्ति, शृंगार, प्रीति-रस, स्नेह
Original: ἀγάπη
Category: Faith
NEW. Occurs at 1:1, 1:3, 1:5, 1:6. Rejected: भक्ति (already reserved by Romans baseline under ‘faith’ for Ram-Sita/Shiva devotional reverence — must not be repurposed here); शृंगार/प्रीति-रस (the erotic-romantic register of Radha-Krishna devotional poetry regionally celebrated via Vidyapati — would badly distort agape’s selfless, obedience-bound sense into romantic passion); स्नेह (too narrowly ‘affection,’ under-conveys the volitional/obedience-linked sense). CRITICAL DEFINITIONAL RULE: 2 John 1:6 defines love AS obedient conduct (‘this is love, that we walk according to his commandments’) — every occurrence paired with obedience language must preserve this definitional link; प्रेम must never be left to stand as a free-floating feeling-word apart from आज्ञा/commandment vocabulary.
Abide Remain
Approved rendering: बनल रहब
Transliteration: banal rahab
Doctrine: Perseverance in the Teaching of Christ
Rejected alternatives: स्थिर रहब (ascetic tapasyā-associated steadfastness)
Original: μένω
Category: Faith
NEW — add to translation memory with priority given repeated occurrence (1:9, twice) plus 1:2 (of truth ‘abiding’ in believers). Reserve plain रहब (without बनल) for the non-doctrinal ‘remain with us’ sense in 1:2’s companion clause so the two senses are never lexically merged. Risk: Maithili religious idiom has a ready but different concept of sthir rahab (remaining fixed/unmoved) associated with ascetic steadfastness achieved through self-discipline (tapasyā) — reviewers must confirm बनल रहब communicates continuing, grace-sustained dependence on and fidelity to Christ’s teaching, not self-achieved ascetic constancy.
World
Approved rendering: जगत्
Transliteration: jagat
Doctrine: Warning against Deceivers Denying the Incarnation
Rejected alternatives: संसार
Original: κόσμος
Category: False Teaching
NEW. 2 John 1:7 only. Rejected: संसार — in everyday Maithili religious idiom संसार names specifically the cyclical, karma-bound realm of birth-death-rebirth that Vaishnava/Shaiva devotional practice seeks release from, the identical risk-class the baseline documents for मुक्ति/मोक्ष under ‘salvation.’ दुनिया (colloquial) permitted only in non-theological narrative asides, never at 1:7 itself.
Deceiver
Approved rendering: भरमाबएबाला
Transliteration: bharamābaebālā
Doctrine: Warning against Deceivers Denying the Incarnation
Rejected alternatives: छलिया
Original: πλάνος
Category: False Teaching
NEW. 2 John 1:7. Rejected: छलिया, which suggests petty trickery/cheating rather than doctrinal subversion. भरमाबएबाला (built on the native verb भरमाएब, ‘to cause to wander/be confused’) preserves the ‘leading astray’ root sense shared with Greek πλανάω.
Confess
Approved rendering: स्वीकार करब
Transliteration: svīkār karab
Doctrine: Warning against Deceivers Denying the Incarnation
Original: ὁμολογέω
Category: Christology
NEW. 2 John 1:7 (‘do not confess Jesus Christ coming in the flesh’). Must be kept STRUCTURALLY DISTINCT from the fixed liturgical formula यीशु प्रभु छथि (Romans 10:9), which the baseline’s Theological Consistency Rules lock as verbatim across the whole curriculum. Here ὁμολογέω names doctrinal acknowledgment of a fact (the incarnation), not the salvation-confession formula; do not merge the two into one all-purpose ‘confess’ term.
Goes Ahead Transgresses
Approved rendering: सीमासँ आगाँ बढ़ि जाएबाला
Transliteration: sīmāsã̃ āgā baṛhi jāebālā
Doctrine: Perseverance in the Teaching of Christ
Rejected alternatives: उन्नत शिक्षा-सम्बन्धी वाक्यांश (vocabulary resembling ‘an advanced/higher teaching’)
Original: προάγων
Category: False Teaching
NEW. 2 John 1:9 (προάγων). Must explicitly frame this ‘going ahead’ as a TRANSGRESSION of a boundary, never a commendable spiritual advance, given the region’s familiar guru-lineage model of progressive spiritual attainment (sādhana stages). Never drop सीमासँ (‘from/beyond the boundary’) from the phrase — an unqualified ‘goes beyond’ rendering risks being heard as praise rather than warning, inverting the verse’s meaning.
Teaching Of Christ
Approved rendering: ख्रीष्टक शिक्षा
Transliteration: khrīṣṭak śikṣā
Doctrine: Perseverance in the Teaching of Christ
Rejected alternatives: उपदेश, दीक्षा
Original: διδαχὴ τοῦ Χριστοῦ
Category: False Teaching
NEW core doctrine-naming phrase, using established transliteration ख्रीष्ट plus native genitive -क and the religiously neutral शिक्षा (avoiding उपदेश/दीक्षा, which carry guru-lineage/initiation baggage). 2 John 1:9, 1:10. Must remain terminologically FIXED across every occurrence in this curriculum — this phrase IS the doctrine name.
Say Greetings
Approved rendering: नमस्कार कहब
Transliteration: namaskār kahab
Doctrine: Hospitality and Doctrinal Discernment
Original: χαίρειν λέγειν
Category: Hospitality
NEW. 2 John 1:10, 1:11 (χαίρειν λέγειν). नमस्कार functions both as an ordinary civil greeting and a formal/religious salutation (used before deities, elders, honored guests) in Maithili — the hospitality note above applies equally here. A lighter-register alternative स्वागत नहि करब may better isolate the ‘formal endorsement’ sense without over-implying a ban on ordinary basic civility; test both with native speakers in Phase 2/3 review before final lock-in.
Medium Risk Terms
Peace
Approved rendering: शान्ति
Transliteration: śānti
Doctrine: Grace, Mercy, and Peace (2 John 1:3 triad; extends Romans baseline Peace with God)
Rejected alternatives: चैन, सुख
Original: εἰρήνη
Category: Salvation
Inherited from Romans package, reused EXACTLY. In 2 John 1:3, the third term of the greeting triad. Distinguish from psychological calm or the domestic-harmony ideal associated with the celebrated Sita-Ram household, per baseline.
Commandment
Approved rendering: आज्ञा
Transliteration: ājñā
Doctrine: Walking in Truth and Love
Original: ἐντολή
Category: Faith
NEW. Occurs at 1:4, 1:5, 1:6. Kept formally distinct from Romans baseline’s विश्वासक आज्ञाकारिता (obedience of faith): आज्ञा names the content commanded, आज्ञाकारिता the resulting obedience — etymologically linked but functionally separate, mirroring the Greek ἐντολή/ὑπακοή relationship.
Mercy
Approved rendering: दया
Transliteration: dayā
Doctrine: Grace, Mercy, and Peace
Original: ἔλεος
Category: God
NEW — must be added to translation memory explicitly distinguished from अनुग्रह. 2 John 1:3, third term of the greeting triad ‘grace, mercy, peace’ (distinctive to the Johannine/Pastoral epistles). Consistent with the baseline’s own allowance of दया ‘for ordinary compassion in non-salvific contexts only’ — ἔλεος here (compassion toward need/misery specifically, as opposed to χάρις’s unmerited-favor-generally sense) is precisely that register. Reviewers must confirm दया is never collapsed into or confused with अनुग्रह in this fixed triadic greeting.
Elder
Approved rendering: प्राचीन
Transliteration: prācīn
Doctrine: Pastoral Authority of the Elder
Rejected alternatives: पंडित
Original: πρεσβύτερος
Category: Church
NEW. 2 John 1:1, the author’s self-designation. Standard North Indian Christian rendering for the NT church office. Risk, by direct analogy to the baseline’s ‘apostle’ entry: प्राचीन must NOT be read through the lens of the Maithil Brahmin pandit’s specific institutional role as custodian of Panjikaran, the region’s genealogical lineage-verification registry — this names recognized pastoral-teaching authority in the church, not genealogical or caste-lineage authority. Brief clarifying note recommended at first occurrence.
Walk
Approved rendering: चलब
Transliteration: calab
Doctrine: Walking in Truth and Love
Rejected alternatives: धर्मपर चलब (forbidden collocation)
Original: περιπατέω
Category: Faith
NEW. 2 John 1:4, 1:6. A live conduct-of-life metaphor readily accepted in Maithili (parallel devotional usage exists, e.g. ‘धर्मपर चलब’). MUST pair only with सत्यपर (‘on/in truth’) or आज्ञापर, NEVER with धर्मपर (‘on dharma/duty’), since the Romans baseline’s law/righteousness entries forbid the धर्म register for this theological sense.
Evil Works
Approved rendering: दुष्ट काज
Transliteration: duṣṭa kāj
Doctrine: Hospitality and Doctrinal Discernment
Rejected alternatives: दुष्ट कर्म
Original: ἔργα πονηρά
Category: Sin
NEW. 2 John 1:11. Deliberately use काज (neutral ‘work/deed/task’), never कर्म: कर्म in regional religious register carries strong karma-doctrine causal-consequence overtones (कर्मफल), already flagged as a rejected term under the baseline’s Grace entry, which would misdirect this verse toward a karmic-consequence reading rather than moral complicity in a specific doctrinal wrong.
Joy
Approved rendering: आनन्द
Transliteration: ānand
Doctrine: Christian Fellowship and Joy
Original: χαρὰ πεπληρωμένη
Category: Faith
NEW. 2 John 1:12 (χαρὰ πεπληρωμένη, ‘joy…made full’). आनन्द is common and low-risk in ordinary speech, but it is also the third term of the Advaita Vedanta सत्-चित्-आनन्द (Being-Consciousness-Bliss) triad. Given सत्य (from ἀλήθεια) already appears prominently throughout this same short letter, a shared translator note is required confirming आनन्द here reads as ordinary, relationally-grounded Christian joy tied to face-to-face fellowship, not an implicit gesture toward that metaphysical triad.
Low Risk Terms
Fellowship
Approved rendering: सङ्गति
Transliteration: saṅgati
Doctrine: Christian Fellowship and Joy
Rejected alternatives: मित्रता, समाज
Inherited from Romans package, reused EXACTLY. Not itself the required rendering for any term in 2 John, but retained here as a CONTRAST anchor: सङ्गति must remain reserved for the positive sense of Christian fellowship/shared participation in Christ (as in Romans) and must NEVER be used for 2 John 1:11’s negative sense of complicity in a deceiver’s evil works (see new term ‘share_participate’ / भागीदार बनब below).
Exhort
Approved rendering: उत्साहित करब
Transliteration: utsāhit karab
Doctrine: Pastoral Entreaty Tone
Inherited from Romans package, reused EXACTLY. The baseline’s own distinction between विनती (entreaty) and उत्साहित करब (encouragement) is the direct basis for the new ‘ask_request’ entry below (2 John 1:5), which reuses विनती करब for ἐρωτῶ’s entreaty sense.
Greets You
Approved rendering: नमस्कार पठबैत छथि
Transliteration: namaskār paṭhabait chathi
Doctrine: Christian Fellowship and Joy
Original: ἀσπάζεταί σε
Category: Church
NEW. 2 John 1:13 (ἀσπάζεταί σε), ordinary non-doctrinal epistolary closing greeting. Uses honorific verb agreement (छथि) appropriate to describing fellow believers with courteous register. Underscores by CONTRAST that the 1:10-11 prohibition on greeting is narrowly doctrinal, not a general anti-greeting principle — ordinary greetings between believers remain entirely appropriate.
Ask Request
Approved rendering: विनती करब
Transliteration: vinatī karab
Doctrine: Pastoral Entreaty Tone
Original: ἐρωτῶ
Category: Faith
NEW, but directly reuses the entreaty sense already distinguished in the baseline’s exhort entry (विनती vs. उत्साहित करब). 2 John 1:5 (ἐρωτῶ).
From The Beginning
Approved rendering: आरम्भसँ
Transliteration: ārambhasã̃
Doctrine: Walking in Truth and Love / Pastoral Entreaty Tone
Original: ἀπ᾽ ἀρχῆς
Category: Faith
NEW. 2 John 1:5, 1:6 (ἀπ᾽ ἀρχῆς). Uses the native instrumental -सँ marker per baseline grammar conventions (cf. दाऊदक वंशसँ).
Forever
Approved rendering: सदाकाल
Transliteration: sadākāl
Doctrine: Perseverance in the Teaching of Christ
Rejected alternatives: अनन्तकाल तक (acceptable variant)
Original: εἰς τὸν αἰῶνα
Category: Faith
NEW. 2 John 1:2 (εἰς τὸν αἰῶνα), of truth’s permanent indwelling among believers. Standard, non-controversial rendering; no cultural-collision risk identified.
Watch Yourselves
Approved rendering: अपना पर धियान राखू
Transliteration: apnā par dhiyān rākhū
Doctrine: Reward for Perseverance
Original: βλέπετε ἑαυτούς
Category: Faith
NEW. 2 John 1:8 (βλέπετε ἑαυτούς). Call to self-vigilance in the face of external doctrinal threat.
Worked For
Approved rendering: मेहनति कएल
Transliteration: mehanati kael
Doctrine: Reward for Perseverance
Original: εἰργασάμεθα
Category: Faith
NEW. 2 John 1:8 (εἰργασάμεθα). Ministry labor invested in the recipients’ spiritual growth; must be read alongside पूर्ण प्रतिफल so the verse is not heard as ‘labor accumulates its own automatic fruit.‘
Paper And Ink
Approved rendering: कागज आ स्याही
Transliteration: kāgaj ā syāhī
Doctrine: Personal Presence and Epistolary Closing
Original: χάρτης καὶ μέλαν
Category: Church
NEW. 2 John 1:12 (χάρτου καὶ μέλανος). Direct, non-theological rendering; no cultural-collision risk.
Mouth To Mouth
Approved rendering: आमने-सामने
Transliteration: āmne-sāmne
Doctrine: Personal Presence and Epistolary Closing
Rejected alternatives: मुहेँ-मुँह (literal calque, sounds unnatural)
Original: στόμα πρὸς στόμα
Category: Church
NEW. 2 John 1:12 (στόμα πρὸς στόμα). A literal calque risks sounding odd in Maithili; the natural idiom आमने-सामने (‘face to face’) is preferred per the system prompt’s idiom-handling rule, with no doctrinal content at stake.
Medium-High Risk Terms
Elect Lady
Approved rendering: चुनल गेल कुरिया
Transliteration: cunal gel Kuriyā
Doctrine: Divine Election / Chosen Status
Rejected alternatives: स्वामिनी
Original: ἐκλεκτῇ κυρίᾳ
Category: Salvation
NEW hybrid: native adjective चुनल गेल (built on baseline’s परमेश्वरक चुनाव root) + transliterated address कुरिया. 2 John 1:1, 1:5, 1:13. Avoid स्वामिनी (‘mistress of a household’) as primary gloss for κυρία — risks importing the hierarchical, patriarchal joint-family connotations of Mithila’s household structure into what is, in Greek, a term of Christian dignity and divine choosing. MANDATORY translator note at first occurrence explaining the three-way interpretive ambiguity: (1) an individual Christian woman, (2) a personified local congregation (‘her children’ = its members), (3) a proper name ‘Electa.’ This ambiguity directly affects the rendering of ‘children’ throughout the letter.
Share Participate
Approved rendering: भागीदार बनब
Transliteration: bhāgīdār banab
Doctrine: Hospitality and Doctrinal Discernment
Rejected alternatives: सङ्गति (reserved exclusively for baseline’s positive Christian fellowship sense)
Original: κοινωνέω
Category: Church
NEW. 2 John 1:11 (κοινωνέω, negative sense — becoming complicit in a deceiver’s evil works). Deliberately distinct from baseline’s सङ्गति: using सङ्गति here, even in a negated clause, risks blurring a previously-positive learner term into a negative moral-complicity context.
Full Reward
Approved rendering: पूर्ण प्रतिफल
Transliteration: pūrṇa pratiphal
Doctrine: Reward for Perseverance
Rejected alternatives: फल, कर्मफल
Original: μισθὸς πλήρης
Category: Eschatology
NEW. 2 John 1:8 (μισθὸν πλήρη). Deliberately avoid फल standing alone or कर्म-फल-adjacent phrasing: the baseline’s Grace entry specifically rejects कर्मफल because फल in ordinary Maithili religious idiom evokes the karma-doctrine principle of action inevitably yielding proportionate fruit across lifetimes. प्रतिफल is a distinct compound close enough to be natural but must carry a light translator note clarifying this ‘reward’ is Christ’s gracious recompense for persevering faith, not a karmic entitlement — the same grace/merit boundary the baseline protects in Romans 3-4 and 11:5-6.
Low-Medium Risk Terms
Children
Approved rendering: बच्चा-सभ
Transliteration: baccā-sabh
Doctrine: Divine Election / Chosen Status
Rejected alternatives: संतान (acceptable secondary form)
Original: τέκνα
Category: Church
NEW. 2 John 1:1, 1:4, 1:13. Must be read consistently with the elect_lady ambiguity above: if ‘lady’ personifies a church, ‘her children’ are its members corporately — a rendering that forces an exclusively literal biological reading would mislead. Translator note recommended at first occurrence, cross-referenced to elect_lady.
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