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Utkarshini
Meaning - a feminine Indian name of Sanskrit origin, commonly meaning "excellence," "brilliance," "progression," or "one who raises/lifts up" We wanted a name for our Indic LLM project, and we chose this name with great thought - since the spirit of this project is to lift our socieity collectively up by leveraging the wisdom locked in the Vedic corpus. As our life becomes increasingly dependent on Language Models, it feels unfair and deeply wrong that the Vedic corpus, the cornerstone of all civilisational wisdom is not given enough attention. If AI has to power our future lives, then let it be guided by the light of the Vedas and the imagination of the Puranas.
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Upanishads to be represented in the parallel corpus
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People whose cultural heritage has no reliable AI representation
About this project
We are hiring
We are looking for a Master's Sanskrit Scholar to help build the first AI trained on the Vedas and Upanishads.
This role is unlike any other:
2-month paid on-site or remote internship · Ajmer, Rajasthan
Validate Sanskrit alignments & review AI training data
What is UTKARSHINI
UTKARSHINI stands for
User-interface for Testing, Knowledge Annotation and Review from Scrapers by Humans of Indic Information
Utkarshini, from Sanskrit, signifying excellence, brilliance, and one who lifts up, is Bhaskar Lab's flagship Indic LLM project.
It is two things at once:
a fine-tuned n-billion-parameter AI model capable of answering complex philosophical questions, citing specific verses, and working across Advaita, Dvaita, and Vishishtadvaita traditions;
and the structured parallel corpus beneath it - every verse aligned across Devanagari original, transliteration, word-by-word meaning, and multiple commentarial traditions.
Automated tools cannot assess theological accuracy. The pipeline runs in four phases - each dependent on the last, and each requiring human expertise at its core.
Are you ready to be the person who brings the knowledge of the vedas to the world of AI?
Learn more about the project here.
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Utkarshini ?
- ✓This project is bigger than one lab. Building the first structured, machine-readable parallel corpus of Vedic and Upanishadic literature is not a task for a small team alone. The corpus will outlast any single version of the model, and every person who contributes to getting it right is part of what makes it last.
- ✓First-mover significance: No one has built what Utkarshini describes. Zero competition, zero prior art. The foundational contribution is available now.
- ✓Lasting credit: Scholar contributors receive first-author credit on a pioneering AI corpus — publishable at computational linguistics and digital humanities conferences.
- ✓Frontier work, meaningful context: Work at the intersection of deep textual scholarship and frontier AI development, from Ajmer — North India's richest creative crossroads.
Open until 30 Jun 2026
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