Basavanna and the Sharanas of 12th century Karnataka created something extraordinary: a system where anyone — regardless of caste, gender, or birth — could contribute knowledge in the form of vachanas (free verse prose poems). These were composed, shared, debated, and refined in the Anubhava Mantapa (hall of experience).
This is structurally identical to open-source knowledge production: distributed contributors, no central authority over truth, quality emerging through communal review, and output freely available to all.
The question I’m exploring: what would it mean to build a modern digital Anubhava Mantapa?