Passage
Romans 10
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Doctrine
Evangelism
Framed as scholarly and liturgical proclamation and witness appropriate to this Language Package's intended dialogical/academic use, not confrontational framing.
ROM.10.14-15
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Doctrine
Faith
Personal trust in Christ specifically, not the guṇa-classified threefold śraddhā of Bhagavad Gītā 17 or the structured bhakti-mārga soteriological path.
ROM.10.9-10, ROM.10.17
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Glossary Term
Faith
श्रद्धा is rejected not as generically 'too devotional' but because it is a precisely theorized technical term: Bhagavad Gita chapter 17 analyzes śraddhā as threefold (sāttvikī, rājasī, tāmasī), classified by which guṇa of prakṛti dominates the believer's constitution -- a fully worked-out psychological-metaphysical doctrine incompatible with faith as simple trust in a specific person.
ROM.10.9-10, ROM.10.17
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Doctrine
Fulfillment of Prophecy
Linear historical fulfillment (OT to NT), not the cyclical time of the four yugas (kṛta, tretā, dvāpara, kali) within which avatāras periodically appear per Gītā 4.7-8.
ROM.10.11
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Glossary Term
Gentiles
म्लेच्छाः is explicitly rejected: in classical Sanskrit usage this term for 'foreigner/outsider' carries a ritual-impurity and cultural-contempt connotation (those outside varṇa society and Vedic ritual competence) far more pejorative than the neutral 'non-Jew' sense Paul intends.
ROM.10.12
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Doctrine
Gospel
Must be distinguished from a general auspicious announcement (śubha).
ROM.10.15-16
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Glossary Term
Gospel
Follows the precedent of William Carey's 1808 Serampore Sanskrit New Testament, which coined this compound (su- 'good' + samācāra 'report/conduct-account') rather than borrowing a term already tied to a specific school.
ROM.10.15-16
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Glossary Term
Intercession
Prayer offered on behalf of others through Christ as sole mediator; a plain compound with no major rival technical sense.
ROM.10.1
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Glossary Term
Israel
Proper name, transliterated.
ROM.10.12
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Glossary Term
Jesus
Follows the Serampore Sanskrit New Testament (1808) precedent, the earliest sustained Christian Sanskrit Bible translation tradition.
ROM.10.9, ROM.10.12
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Glossary Term
Justification
निर्णयः is deliberately borrowed from Mīmāṃsā/Nyāya argumentative method, where it names the definitively ascertained conclusion (siddhānta) reached after stating an objection (pūrvapakṣa) and refuting it (uttarapakṣa) -- i.e.
ROM.10.1, ROM.10.10
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Glossary Term
Law
विधिः is deliberately chosen from Pūrva Mīmāṃsā, the classical school devoted entirely to interpreting Vedic scriptural injunctions: a vidhi is a positive scriptural command carrying binding authority.
ROM.10.11
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Glossary Term
Lord
प्रभुः ('master, one with power/authority') is preferred as the default title precisely because ईश्वरः carries a specific philosophical liability: in Advaita Vedānta, Īśvara is Brahman as viewed through māyā -- a real but only provisionally real (vyāvahārika) qualified (saguṇa) manifestation, ultimately superseded by the attributeless (nirguṇa) Brahman beyond even Īśvara.
ROM.10.9, ROM.10.12
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Doctrine
Lordship of Christ
CRITICAL: Romans 10:9 -- 'Jesus is Lord' is the salvation confession.
ROM.10.9, ROM.10.12
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Doctrine
Prayer and Intercession
Direct access to God in Christ's name; distinguish from Vedic ritual invocation (āhvāna, homa) requiring precise mantra performance for efficacy.
ROM.10.1
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Glossary Term
Prophecy
God-inspired declaration of what is to come; a straightforward compound with no major competing technical sense.
ROM.10.11
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Glossary Term
Righteousness
CRITICAL AND UNAVOIDABLE: unlike in any vernacular in this pipeline, there is no way to fully escape dharma's weight in Sanskrit -- धार्मिकता is an abstract noun built directly on धर्म, the first and organizing category of the four puruṣārthas (dharma, artha, kāma, mokṣa) and the entire subject of the Mīmāṃsā school's scriptural-injunction hermeneutics and of the dharmaśāstra legal-ritual literature (varṇāśrama-dharma).
ROM.10.1, ROM.10.10
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Doctrine
Salvation
CRITICAL: Never मोक्षः, मुक्तिः, or निर्वाणम्.
ROM.10.1, ROM.10.10
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Glossary Term
Salvation
CRITICAL: NEVER मोक्षः or मुक्तिः -- both name the precise, fully theorized fourth puruṣārtha: liberation from saṃsāra achieved through jñāna-mārga (Advaita's Self-realization that ātman is Brahman), bhakti-mārga, or karma-mārga, depending on school.
ROM.10.1, ROM.10.10
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Doctrine
Unity of Jews and Gentiles
Directly challenges varṇa-based ritual and spiritual hierarchy embedded in classical dharmaśāstra social theory.
ROM.10.12
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Doctrine
Universal Scope of the Gospel
No varṇa or ritual-competence barrier to the gospel.
ROM.10.12-13