From Vajrayana Tara to Bengali Baul: A Computational Study of Lexical Transmission Across Buddhist, Shakta, and Vaishnava Traditions in Bengal (opens in new tab)

We present a computational corpus study of vocabulary relationships across eight tradition layers of Bengali and Sanskrit devotional literature spanning the 8th to 19th centuries, encompassing Buddhist Vajrayana, Shakta Tantra, Vaishnava, and Baul traditions. Using a corpus of 75 texts and TF-IDF character n-gram vectorization with cosine similarity analysis, we address the historically argued but previously unquantified claim that Buddhist Va...