Writing
Longer readings that a plate caption cannot hold. Same rule as the plates: state what the source carries, mark where it stops, and name the works the reading rests on.
Essays
A period taken at length, built from the epigraphy and the texts rather than from the illustrations.
Lopāmudrā, Ghoṣā, Mudgalānī, Romaśā, Viśpalā — what the hymns attribute to each, and where the attribution is contested.
A queen endows a stupa on the Yamuna and has her name cut into the stone. The stone survives; the name is still argued over.
A body of verse that describes work rather than only ornament, and the named women who composed it.
The first administrative text that names women as workers and assigns them wages, read against what the sculpture shows.
Notes
A single line or a single claim, taken apart. Usually something that circulates in a form the source does not support.
Spec sheets
One garment, term by term: how it was worn, what the evidence is, and what a maker would need to reproduce it. Built to print.
The cloth strip drawn across the chest and tied at the back: terms, evidence, and the limits of the reconstruction. Printable.
How the southern wrapped system differs from the northern one, item by item, on the Sangam evidence. Printable.