3. Siribhoovalaya – An Overview
• Siriboovalaya – Is a Kannada Literary Work which is entirely
written in Kannada Numerals (probably the only book in
the world that is written completely in Numbers)
• This work was written by “Sage Kumudendu” (A Jain Muni)
in the period of around 800 AD
• Sage Kumudendu hails from (Yelavalli) Nandi, Near
Bangalore
• The book comprises of 1270 Number Charts in form of a 27
x 27 Matrix
• These 27 x 27 matrices comprise of 64 numbers which are
kannada numerals in 56 Chapters
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• These 64 kannada numerals are assigned respective – phonetic
kannada alphabets
• The matrices are transposed and read in defined patterns (called as
“bandhas”)
• Sage Kumudendu claims, Lie hidden in the work are 718 languages and
18 scripts.
• Research has proven that, apart from Kannada, several languages like
Prakrita, Sanskrit, Telugu, Tamil, Malayalam, Bengali, Oriya, Gujarati,
Marathi, Persian and Turkish have been woven into this text
• The text also contains the Vedas and complete epics of Ramayana &
Mahabharata
• The work also gives abundant information regarding alchemy, the
science of matrimony, atomic science, space science, medical science &
production of modern weapons
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7. How to Read Siribhoovalaya ?
• Siribhoovalaya is a combination of Substitution & Transformation Cipher
Techniques used in Cryptography
• Introduction to Cryptography
• Some vocabulary,
• Cryptography: The science of encrypting a message, or the science of
concealing the meaning of a message
• Cipher: Any general system for hiding the meaning of a message
• Plaintext: The message (or plaintext)
• Cipher text: The message (or plaintext) after en-ciphering
• Key: The element that turns the general encryption algorithm into a specific
method for encryption. The key specifies the exact details of a particular
encryption.
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8. How to Read Siribhoovalaya ?
Substitution Cipher
Plain Text a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z
Cipher Text 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26
• Key : alphabets substituted by numbers
• Plaintext : it is a great day
• Cipher text : 920 919 1 7175120 4125
• In Siribhoovalaya “kannada numerals” are substituted by their respective
“kannada alphabets”
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9. How to Read Siribhoovalaya ?
Transposition Cipher
M E G A B U C K Key
7 4 5 1 2 8 3 6 Algorithm, substitute key with a number
in accordance to its weight
p l e a s e t r
Plaintext :
a n s f e r o n
please transfer one million dollars to my swiss
e m i l l i o n bank account six two two
d o l l a r s t
Cipher text :
o m y s w i s s afllskso selawaiA toossctC lnmomant esilyntw
rnntsowD paedobuo eriricxB
b a n k a c c o
u n t s i x t w
o t w o A B C D
Siribhoovalaya gives the key to de-cipher information in the matrix by use of “bandhas”
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10. u !
yo
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