# 003 Padma: sources

Record page: `003-padma.html`. Prepared 27 September 2026 (PT). Nothing has been uploaded, published or filed.

## 1. Every claim on the page, with where it comes from

| Claim on the page | Source | How it was checked |
|---|---|---|
| Why line, "What it is", "Why it is a masterpiece", "The geometry", the mantra lines, "The sit", "The sequence", "Pain is information…" | The founder's own text, `FOUNDER-TEXT-2026-09-27.md` (sent 27 Sep 2026, 4:40 PM PT) | Used close to word for word. Every change is listed in `CHANGES.md` |
| Twelve petals in the outer ring; two rings of green petals; gold rope border and gold beads; deep emerald field | Loom master `HRIDAYA-GTC-003-LOOM-MASTER.svg` | Counted on the loom master with polar unwraps around the lotus centre: **12** large green petals in the outer ring, about 30° apart, with 12 small green leaves at the rim between them. The inner ring has **24** small petals (12 larger and 12 smaller, alternating), each holding a gold bud |
| "A small gold point sits at the heart of the bloom." | Loom master | A gold disc (Pale Gold `#D3B35E` over Temple Gold/Old Gold), centre about (750, 719) mm, radius about 25–28 mm, at the centre of the pink lotus. The loom notes also describe the design as a "blooming pink lotus with gold bindu" |
| Fourteen silk colours, with their names | `KH-003-LOOM-NOTES.md`, palette table | The names and hex values are read by the build script from the notes. All 9,672 loom-master paths use only these 14 fills |
| 1.5 m round, about 410,900 knots at 150 knots per square inch | `KH-003-LOOM-NOTES.md`, "Knot context" | 59.1 in diameter → about 2,740 in² × 150 ≈ 410,900 |
| SHA-256 of the SVG, PNG and PDF | Computed on the box, 27 Sep 2026 | `sha256` of the files in `/workspace/hridaya/brand/loom/KH-003/` (see section 3) |
| Yam is the traditional seed syllable of Anahata, not Khard Hridaya's own; the heart lotus has twelve petals and is called Anahata; Yam is the seed of air | Purnananda, *Sat-Cakra-Nirupana*, verses 22–23 and commentary, in Arthur Avalon (Sir John Woodroffe), *The Serpent Power* | See section 2 |
| The Sat-Cakra-Nirupana was written by Purnananda in 1577 | Avalon's preface to *The Serpent Power* | The preface says the text is the sixth chapter of Purnananda's *Shri-tattva-chintamani*, completed in Shaka 1499, i.e. AD 1577 |
| Anahata means "unstruck"; commentary quote "that Shabda or sound which issues without the striking of any two things together" | *The Serpent Power*, commentary on verse 22 | Quote copied from the archive.org full text (section 2) |
| *Padma* is a Sanskrit word for the lotus; in the Buddha's simile the lotus is born in muddy water and rises above it unstained; the lotus throne is the usual seat of divine figures in Hindu and Buddhist art and is often seen in Jain art | "Sacred lotus in religious art", *Wikipedia* (its sources include AN 4.36 and AN 10.81 for the simile) | Read 27 Sep 2026. Only those statements are used; no dates are taken from it |
| Gita 5.10: "is not tainted by sin, as the lotus-leaf (is not tainted) by water" | *The Bhagavadgita*, tr. K. T. Telang, Sacred Books of the East vol. 8, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1882 | Checked in the archive.org scan `bhagavadgtwi00tela`. The verse begins "He who, casting off (all) attachment, performs actions dedicating them to Brahman…", which the page paraphrases as "one who acts without clinging" |

## 2. The Yam citation in detail

- **Text.** Purnananda, *Sat-Cakra-Nirupana* ("Description of the Six Centres"), 1577. The translation and commentary are by Arthur Avalon, *The Serpent Power*, first published London: Luzac & Co., 1919. Public domain.
- **Verse 22** is the heart lotus: "Anahata", with twelve petals bearing the letters Ka to Tha. The "Summary of verses 22 to 27" says "on its twelve petals are the letters Ka to Tha".
- **Verse 23**: "Meditate within it on the sweet and excellent Pavana Bija…". The commentary explains "Pavana Bija" as "the Bija Yam", and a footnote reads "Vayu, whose Bija is 'Yam'". Pavana and Vayu both mean air or wind, so the page says "the seed of air".
- **Where I checked it:**
  1. A later Ganesh & Co. (Madras) edition, archive.org item `dli.ministry.26996` (catalogued as 1950). It has explicit "VERSE 22" and "VERSE 23" headings and spells the syllable "Yam". https://archive.org/details/dli.ministry.26996
  2. The second revised edition, Madras: Ganesh & Co., 1924, archive.org item `in.ernet.dli.2015.283748`. Same verses and numbering; this edition spells the syllable "Yang". https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.283748
- **Caveat.** I could not find a scan of the 1919 first edition online. The page therefore cites *The Serpent Power* (1919) and names the two editions actually checked.
- **Wording on the page.** The mantra is called "traditional: the seed syllable of Anahata, the heart lotus. It is not Khard Hridaya's own." No benefit is claimed for it.

## 3. Loom master files (SHA-256, computed 27 Sep 2026)

| File | SHA-256 |
|---|---|
| `HRIDAYA-GTC-003-LOOM-MASTER.svg` | `c503849c5d9e0ef476750e0b00d323b7caf2839f92fdd453f42c84bed39e26d1` |
| `HRIDAYA-GTC-003-LOOM-6000.png` | `5b8be640f777d47cca27fa0075cfefeff2d6907c146870be5dd0ce34a3be3afd` |
| `HRIDAYA-GTC-003-LOOM.pdf` | `193134733c0ad34ff5b29469d6bcce6ac9d70ae7c90702633ee2e0ad33e050fb` |

The build script recomputes these every time it runs, so the page always shows the hashes of the files on disk.

## 4. Left out because I could not source it
- Any date for the lotus as a symbol (Indus, Vedic, Ashokan and so on). None is on the page.
- The meanings of the twelve petal letters, the deities of the Anahata lotus, and the other details of verses 22–27. They are not needed and were kept off the page.
- Any link between the carpet and a particular temple, text or school, beyond the founder's own words.
- The floor photo (`003-sit.jpg`). It was not used as a design source; the page art is drawn only from the loom master.