[racchabanda] సిరిభూవలయ - coded chakrabaMdha
J. K. Mohana Rao
Now that we are on chitrakavitva, let me say a few words
on siribhUvalaya. This book was supposed to have been
written by kumudEMdu muni, a Jain monk in the eighth
century. But the kannaDa style looks more of the
later centuries (after tenth century), it seems.
Nobody knew of its existence for a long time.
He is said to belong to the village yalavaLLi near
kOlAr in karNATaka. Incidentally if one reverses
siribhUvalaya, one gets yalava bhUrisi, the great sage
from yalava. One yellappa SAstri in tuMkUr district
found that a person called dharaNEMdra paMDita has a copy
of this book. SAstri wanted to have this copy. He
married the paMDita's daughter and established a
relationship with him. After paMDita's death,
his sons wanted to sell off many possessions as they
were very poor. SAstri bought this book by giving
his wife's (daughter-in-law of the deceased) gold bangles.
yellappa SAstri and his friend SrIkaMThayya, a freedom
fighter who is well-versed in deciphering SAsanAs, began
to study siribhUvalaya. A lot of others also participated
in this project. SrI vEMkaTAchala SAstri, an expert in
kannaDa ChaMdassu (He has a place similar to that of kOvela
saMpatkumAra in telugu. I have with me books by both these
great men.) also was one such person.
About the book now. This is perhaps the only one
of its kind in the world. This book is not written in any
language. It contains only numbers. Each page conains
a 27 X 27 square with numbers from 1 to 64 in each square.
The numerals are kannaDa numerals. Each number stands
for a particular letter, svara or vyaMjana. These squares
are called chakrAs, if I understand correctly. At the
moment only 1270 chakras are available. From these
various baMdhAs (in chitrakaviva) like chakra,
nAga, dhanur, etc. could be obtained. The numbers are
written for base nine (not ten). When the numbers are
read in a particular order, say from top to bottom,
we get a particular language. If it is read in a
different order, another language is obtained.
Since only numbers are used and the sound value is
the same, each language is determined only by the way
in which it is read. This is precisely the principle
we are using for coding Indic languages now.
It is said there are 718 languages in this and lots
of books like gIta, rAmAyaNa are also coded besides
arts and sciences of those days, including medicine.
It is in fact the field of medicine that attracted
yellappa SAstri to this book. In kannaDA, the metre
sAMgatya (six iMdra gaNAs, one sUrya gaNa) is used.
Two volumes of this book have been published so far
and research using computers for decoding is still
going on.
The book siribhUvalaya is thus encyclopedic,
written in a code and coded for many languages
containing pattern poetry. One has to imagine
how kumudEMdu muni wrote it. To understand and
decipher it, we are using modern computers now!
Please see also
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siribhoovalaya
Regards! - mOhana
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Hemantha Kumar
What a great tradition exist in "Namma Bhaaratha"
Saahebare Namaskaara, Namaskaara, Namaskaara.
Best wishes
Hemantha Kumar
"J. K. Mohana Rao" <jkm...@yahoo.com> wrote:
siribhUvalaya - coded chakrabaMdha
<sniP>
This book is not written in any
language. It contains only numbers. Each page conains
a 27 X 27 square with numbers from 1 to 64 in each square.
The numerals are kannaDa numerals. Each number stands
for a particular letter, svara or vyaMjana. <snip>
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