Socratic lens
Test the assumption.
Ask what is being taken for granted, whose evidence matters, what a counterexample would show and who lives with the consequence.
What is lost, and what is gained, by reading Tulsi's Awadhi retelling as a devotional work in its own right rather than as a translation of Vālmīki's Sanskrit Rāmāyaṇa?
When a verse's translation is marked pending rather than supplied, does that absence teach something a confident but uncertain guess would not?
How does the layered narration — Tulsidas recounting Yājñavalkya recounting Śiva's telling to Pārvatī — change what it means to ask who is speaking at any given verse?
What does it cost a reader when a study edition of a sacred text quietly pads out an unfinished section to look complete, and what does it cost when it does not?