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Wikipedia's article on rta, the Vedic principle of cosmic order, consulted 2026-08-13.
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Reliability tier 3: a continuously community-edited tertiary reference with no formal peer review process, suitable for citable, checkable factual claims but not treated as authoritative on genuinely contested points. NotesWikipedia's article on rta, consulted 2026-08-13. Useful here for its roughly 390 occurrences in the Rigveda, Varuna's standing as rta's guardian, Maurice Bloomfield's assessment of the term's centrality, dharma's emergence as rta's narrower successor, and the shared Proto-Indo-Iranian root with the Avestan asha.
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Publication Year2026
URLhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%B9%9Ata
Source Typereference
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This source backs 16 claims across the atlas. As facts: 12 well-attested. Plus 4 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.
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- Doctrines, 8 claims: 4 well-attested, 4 general references.
- Sources, 8 claims: 8 well-attested.
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