Cipher 002 · Free

The Bhūta Saṃkhyā Trial

This is not the family page — that stays on /sanskrit, exactly as it is. This is a sequence I built for this site, using the same real convention, so you can decode one completely, yourself, with nothing held back.

Step 1 — the words you'll need

The full table, with the traditional reasoning behind each word, is on /sanskrit. Only the four words used below are repeated here.

Step 2 — the sequence

Step 3 — the rule you need to apply

Reading the words above left to right, in order, gives you eight digits. But Bhūta Saṃkhyā is traditionally read in reverse positional order — the word written first is the lowest place value, not the highest (अङ्कानां वामतो गतिः, “the digits proceed toward the left”). So once you've read off the eight digits in order, reverse the whole string to get the real number.

That real number is eight digits long. Split it into four pairs. Read each pair as a letter's position in the alphabet (A = 01, B = 02 … Z = 26). Four letters. One word.