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 "seat": "EA-CORPORA-02/18",
 "corpus": "tao-te-ching",
 "title": "Tao Te Ching / 道德經 — Chinese Text + Legge (SBE XXXIX): COMPLETE",
 "edition": "Chinese received text (Project Gutenberg #7337, PD digital text of the received 81-chapter edition) with James Legge, The Tao Teh King (Sacred Books of the East XXXIX, 1891; PG #216).",
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  "fetched": "2026-08-25",
  "transport": "Gutenberg direct; Transport D, No-Double-Draw"
 },
 "language": "Classical Chinese; English (Legge 1891)",
 "license": {
  "payload": "Public domain worldwide: ancient text; Legge d. 1897; PG texts carry the PG license frame which imposes no restriction on the PD content itself.",
  "record": "CC-BY-4.0 applies to this seat record only."
 },
 "scope": "The received text complete; Mawangdui and Guodian witness routes (excavated texts) recorded for the witness program, QUEUED.",
 "status": "COMPLETE at received-text grade; chapter-aligned facing layer QUEUED.",
 "verified_loci": [
  "PG7337 secured 41,533 bytes; PG216 Legge secured; both sha-manifested"
 ],
 "rulings_pending_gathering_record": [
  "Excavated-witness routes (Mawangdui/Guodian) for the witness program"
 ]
}