This article records tradition as it has been passed down and reported. Its sources are not yet part of the atlas's verified catalogue.
Comparing how literature and religion intersect across very different traditions carries the same risk comparative religion runs more generally: a category built from familiar, often Christian, literary history, the confessional narrative, the devotional lyric, gets applied to a tradition that organizes its own religious writing along genuinely different lines, and the comparison ends up finding a familiar shape where the tradition's own readers would not recognize one.
The corrective is the same discipline comparative religion scholarship has settled on elsewhere: describing a literary work first in the terms its own tradition and its own readers actually use, what genre it belongs to by that tradition's own reckoning, what devotional or doctrinal work it is understood to do, and only afterward asking carefully what, if anything, genuinely lines up with how another tradition's literature works.
A literary work entry tries to hold that same line, recording what a work's own tradition understands it to be doing before reaching for a comparison to another tradition's literature, since a comparison made too early tends to manufacture a resemblance neither tradition's own readers would actually claim, flattening two genuinely different literary and religious projects into one that fits neither.