Executive Summary: 1 Corinthians — English → Sanskrit Language Package

Why it matters

1 Corinthians is the highest-collision-density book yet processed in this Sanskrit pipeline. Its subject matter — meat offered to images, communal ritual meals, ecstatic speech, bodily resurrection, marriage versus renunciation, and a body-with-many-members metaphor — maps with unusual precision onto live, actively-practiced Hindu ritual categories (naivedya/prasāda, dīkṣā, the Puruṣasūkta, brahmacarya-āśrama), not merely diffuse cultural background. Where the Romans baseline mostly confronted classical philosophical doctrines, this book repeatedly confronts classical ritual practice — meaning a mistranslation here risks being enacted, not just misunderstood. The core passage, 1 Corinthians 15:1-11, anchors the book’s resurrection argument and inherits every Critical caution the Romans baseline established for resurrection, lordship, and messianic fulfillment, then compounds them across the rest of chapter 15.

Key findings

• 24 doctrines newly analyzed for this book (9 Critical, 11 High, 2 Medium, 2 Low), on top of the ~15 Romans-baseline doctrines this book reuses unchanged (Gospel, Grace, Faith, Salvation, Lordship of Christ, Deity/Sonship of Christ, Holy Spirit, Church, Kingdom of God, Covenant, etc.).
• 60 new terms added to translation memory beyond the Romans baseline’s ~34 reused entries (8 Critical, 15 High per the core Table B set, plus additional verb-level and confession-locking entries analyzed in Steps 7-9).
• Five chapters carry disproportionate risk density: ch. 8/10 (idol meat — the single highest ritual-collision point in the whole Language Package), ch. 12 (body of Christ vs. the Puruṣasūkta’s hierarchy myth), ch. 13 (love vs. Gauḍīya prema-bhakti/rasa theology), and ch. 15 (four independently-crowded classical neighborhoods converging in 19 verses: karma-bīja, akṣara-brahma, prakṛti-puruṣa dualism, ātman-Brahman identity).
• No genuinely new type of ambiguity: consistent with the Romans baseline’s core finding, this book’s risk is overwhelmingly surplus of already-theorized Sanskrit vocabulary (crowded neighborhoods), not absence of vocabulary (genuine gaps). Only baptism required transliteration as its primary mitigation; every other top risk required fencing/redefinition of an existing term.

Risks

• Critical/High terms requiring mandatory human theologian review: 23 (8 Critical + 15 High, per 08_core_glossary.md Table B), on top of the Romans baseline’s own Critical/High terms this book reuses without modification.
• Doctrines requiring mandatory human theologian review: 20 of 24 (all 9 Critical + all 11 High), per doctrine_risk_registry.json’s risk summary; only 2 route to native-speaker-equivalent (Sanskrit-scholar) review and 2 to automated review.
• The idol-meat doctrine (Critical) is uniquely dangerous because Paul’s own permissive conclusion (10:25) could be lifted out of context and read as endorsing prasāda-consumption as spiritually neutral — a live devotional practice, not an abstract belief.
• The resurrection-body cluster (15:35-54) is this book’s single densest risk concentration and requires a cumulative chapter-level note bundle, not per-term footnotes, per 06_linguistic_gap_analysis.md.
• The Son’s subjection to the Father (15:24-28) sits at the exact intersection of two pre-existing Critical baseline risks (Lordship/Deity of Christ) at the argument’s climax, compounding stakes beyond an isolated aside.

Opportunities

• This book’s comparatively vocabulary-poor-in-a-good-way doctrines (Christian Unity versus Factionalism; Apostolic Rights and Self-Discipline) demonstrate that not every doctrine in a philosophically dense target language requires heavy fencing — disciplined triage frees reviewer attention for the five genuinely dense chapters.
• Baptism’s clean resolution by transliteration (बप्तिस्मः, avoiding दीक्षा entirely) demonstrates a reusable pattern: where a native term names an incompatible ritual mechanism rather than merely carrying an unwanted connotation, transliteration outperforms paraphrase — a decision rule now formalized in 06_linguistic_gap_analysis.md §3 for reuse in future curricula.
• The merged translation_memory.json (v2) now carries forward every Romans-baseline term unchanged plus 60 new entries, giving Phase 2 a single, internally consistent, citation-ready glossary spanning two curricula — reducing future onboarding cost for any subsequent New Testament book in this Sanskrit pipeline.

Recommended actions

1. Route chapters 8, 10, 12, 13, and 15 to dedicated theologian review passes with preserved reviewer context, rather than distributing them evenly across parallel Phase 2 workers.
2. Enforce the 11 newly-extended forbidden substitutions (मूर्तिः/विग्रहः, ब्रह्मचर्यम्, दीक्षा, श्राद्धम्, अक्षरम्, दर्शनम् [as noun for ὤφθη], सम्प्रदायः, अहंकारः, समाधिस्थः, माया, bare संयम) in the Phase 2 validation checklist alongside the Romans baseline’s existing forbidden list.
3. Lock the exact phrasing of 1 Corinthians 12:3 (यीशुः प्रभुः अस्ति) and 8:6 (एकः सर्वेश्वरः, एकः प्रभुः) before any segment translation begins, given their paradigm-proof-text status and cross-document consistency requirements.
4. Prepare the mandatory chapter-level cumulative note bundle for 1 Corinthians 15:35-54 in advance of Phase 2 segment processing, rather than relying on per-verse footnote generation during translation.
5. Carry the merged translation_memory.json (v2) and this extended 12_ai_translation_requirements.md (v2.2) forward as the joint baseline for any future book added to this Sanskrit pipeline.