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# SheetLabs APIs

SheetLabs hosts two open, read-only reference APIs over Vedic Sanskrit literature. The Rig Veda API returns verse records with the god, poet, and meter of each verse plus its mandal and sukta numbers, and lets callers fetch all verses sung for a given category of god, person, or object. The Vedic Society API returns word records with the Roman transliteration, the Nagari spelling, the meaning, and the lexical category of nearly every noun in Vedic literature, and lets callers fetch all meanings that contain a given English string. Both APIs return structured JSON and require no authentication.

## For AI agents

An agent can look up Rig Veda verses filtered by the category of god, person, or object and retrieve each verse's god, poet, meter, mandal, and sukta, and can search Vedic-literature nouns by English meaning to get their transliteration, Nagari script, definition, and lexical category. Both lookups return structured JSON over open GET endpoints.

## Scope

Use for: Reading Rig Veda verse metadata and searching Vedic-literature word meanings over open, structured JSON endpoints

Not supported:
- write operations
- proper noun coverage
- full text translation
- authentication services
- modern language dictionaries

## APIs

| API | Category | Endpoints | Description |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| rv API | identity-auth | 1 | Programmatically fetch all verses sung for a specific category of god, person, or object. |
| vs API | identity-auth | 1 | Programmatically fetch all meanings that contain a specific english string. |

## Which API to use

| Need | API | Why |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Retrieve Rig Veda verses and their god, poet, meter, mandal, and sukta | rig-veda | The Rig Veda API returns verse records filtered by the category of god, person, or object. |
| Look up the meaning and script of a Vedic Sanskrit word | vedic-society | The Vedic Society API searches nouns by English string and returns transliteration, Nagari, meaning, and category. |

## Cross-API use cases

### Annotate Rig Veda verses with word meanings

Fetch verses for a category of god or object from the Rig Veda API, then resolve the Sanskrit terms in those verses against the Vedic Society lexicon to attach transliteration, Nagari script, and meaning to each verse.

Example prompt: Call the Rig Veda API for verses in a given category, extract candidate terms, and query the Vedic Society API for each term's meaning and script.

### Build a Vedic reference dataset

Combine verse records from the Rig Veda API with lexical entries from the Vedic Society API to assemble a single structured dataset of verses, poets, meters, and word definitions for search or study tools.

Example prompt: Pull all verse records and all matching lexical entries, join them by term, and export a combined JSON dataset.

## Why Jentic

- **Setup:** Wiring these APIs by hand means pointing at their separate Heroku hosts and shaping the resources query for verse and word lookups yourself. With Jentic you install Jentic One once, and your agent finds and adds either API from the Jentic directory to your workspace.
- **Permission scoping:** Each API exposes a single read-only endpoint, so your own rules in Jentic One can scope an agent to just the verse lookup, just the word lookup, or both, with no write access anywhere.
- **Credential handling:** Both APIs are open and store no secret, and your own Jentic One instance still runs each call in its own execution context so no connection details enter the agent's prompt, logs, or context.
- **Discovery method:** Agents search the Jentic directory by intent, such as fetching Rig Veda verses or Vedic word meanings, and Jentic returns the matching operation with its input schema so the agent calls the right endpoint without browsing reference docs.

## Related vendors

- **Getty** — Getty publishes structured scholarly and cultural-heritage reference data through open APIs.
- **Wikidata** — Wikidata offers open structured data on people, texts, and concepts that complements Vedic lexical lookups.
- **Free Dictionary API** — It provides open word definitions and is an adjacent option for general-language meaning lookups.

## FAQ

### What kind of data do the SheetLabs APIs provide?

They provide structured reference data over Vedic Sanskrit literature. The Rig Veda API returns verse records with the god, poet, meter, mandal, and sukta of each verse, and the Vedic Society API returns word records with transliteration, Nagari spelling, meaning, and lexical category.

### Do the SheetLabs APIs require authentication?

No. Both APIs are open and require no API key or token. When accessed through Jentic, the connection is still run inside your own Jentic One instance so no connection details enter the agent context.

### Can I use both APIs together?

Yes. Verse records from the Rig Veda API can be joined with lexical entries from the Vedic Society API to annotate verses with word meanings or to build a combined Vedic reference dataset.

### Are these read-only APIs?

Yes. Each API exposes a single GET endpoint that returns JSON, and there are no write, update, or delete operations across the vendor.

### Does the Vedic Society API include proper nouns?

Not currently. It covers nearly all common nouns in Vedic literature with their meanings and categories, but proper nouns are not yet included.

### In what format are results returned?

Both APIs return structured JSON objects that agents can parse and act on directly, without scraping or format conversion.