# Pranav Paharia

- **Event:** [Meta Global AI Developer Hackathon](https://cerebralvalley.ai/e/meta-ai-developer-hackathon)
- **When:** Oct 26, 12:00 PM – Nov 4, 9:00 PM (EST)
- **Where:** Online
- **Team:** [Pranav Paharia](https://cerebralvalley.ai/u/Fieol)
- **GitHub:** https://github.com/Pranavpaharia/krishna-ai
- **Demo video:** https://youtu.be/x2pY50JHol0
- **Gallery:** https://cerebralvalley.ai/e/meta-ai-developer-hackathon/hackathon/gallery
- **Page:** https://cerebralvalley.ai/e/meta-ai-developer-hackathon/hackathon/gallery/1952

The Problem

Modern life brings complex mental and emotional hurdles—burnout, anxiety, moral dilemmas, and grief. While classical philosophies like the Bhagavad-gītā offer profound, practical frameworks for duty, detachment, and inner peace, accessing this wisdom is difficult. Moreover, mainstream generative AI assistants frequently fabricate quotes, scramble chapter numbers, and blend incompatible philosophies, making them unreliable for authentic spiritual and philosophical guidance.

Our Solution: Krishna AI

Krishna AI is an authentic, persona-driven counseling agent designed to counsel users through real-world dilemmas using the timeless voice of Krishna—with zero scriptural hallucinations.

Key Capabilities & Innovations
Canonical Corpus Grounding: Ingested and indexed 2,062 authoritative verses across three core texts (Bhagavad-gītā As It Is [1972 Macmillan], The Uddhava-gītā, and Ashtavakra Gita).
Meta Open-Weights Reasoning: Powered by Meta's reasoning models (muse-wonder-1.0 / muse-spark-1.3) hosted via high-throughput inference endpoints.
Dual-Stage Citation Verifier: An automated guardrail inspects every verse citation against the indexed text corpus character-for-character. If a model hallucinates a reference or paraphrases a quotation incorrectly, it triggers an automated regeneration and pruning pipeline.
Empathetic 5-Part Structure: Every counsel balances emotional acknowledgment, a root-cause philosophical lens, verbatim primary verses, actionable contemporary steps, and reassuring closing counsel.

## More from Meta Global AI Developer Hackathon

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- [Tokiarivelo](https://cerebralvalley.ai/e/meta-ai-developer-hackathon/hackathon/gallery/1951)
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- [bjirka](https://cerebralvalley.ai/e/meta-ai-developer-hackathon/hackathon/gallery/1956)

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