1.
An Inimitable Cryptographic
Creation: Siri Bhoovalaya
by
Anil Kumar Jain, SMIEEE, FIETE,
FIE(I),SMCSI, LMISCA
email: ak.jain@ieee.org
web-site: www.siri-bhoovalaya.org

2.
Agenda of this Presentation
• Siri Bhoovalaya – historic perspective
• Basic Elements of Siri Bhoovalaya
• Multilingual Phonetic Alphabet Encoding
Scheme
• Deciphering Schemes or Bandhas
• Steganography (Chitra Bandha) example
• Conclusion

3.
Siri Bhoovalaya : A Historic Perspective
• Created by Muni Kumudendu about a thousand year
ago in Karnataka.
• Muni Kumudendu was a Jain saint in lineage of Deshi
Gana / Nandi Sangh.
• About thousand years after its creation it was
rediscovered about sixty years ago by Pandit Yellappa
Shashtri through his determined and untiring efforts
from the only available copy of the manuscript.
• Its contents are primarily in Kannada, but in addition
the languages in which the Chakras manifest poetry
and verses include Prakrita, Samskrit, Telugu, Tamil,
Apabhramsha and Pali etc. totaling 718 of dialects.

4.
Basic Elements of Siri Bhoovalaya
• Chakra : One Chakra is arrangement of numbers (in range 1 to
64) in a matrix of 27 rows and 27 columns. There are only
1270 Chakras available and are classified into 56 Chapters.
• Bandha : A Bandha is manner in which contents from a
Chakra is revealed. Bandha basically describes the method to
traverse the 27x27 matrix and substitute respective numbers
into letters to uncover the Shlokas or verses hidden therein
the Chakra. There are many Bandhas which are identified as
Chakra-Bandha, Navmaank-Bandh, Shreni-Bandha, Hans-
Bandha, Anu-Bandha, Mayur-Bandha, Saras-Bandha, Padma-
Bandha etc. etc.
• Kumudendu Code Table: This table is used for substituting
Numerals in all the Chakras into corresponding Phonetic
Aplhabet Characters . Some of the characters don’t find usage
in contemporary scenario and some find usage in specific
languages as well.

5.
Multilingual Phonetic Alphabet Encoding Scheme
Kumudendu Code Table
(for implementation of Mono-alphabetic Substitution Cipher)

6.
Multilingual Phonetic Alphabet Classification
in
Kumudendu Code Table

7.
Chakra-Bandha
(Implementation of one of the Transposition Ciphers)

8.
First Chakra in Siri Bhoovalaya
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 27
1 59 23 1 16 1 28 28 1 1 56 59 4 56 1 1 47 16 34 1 7 16 1 1 7 56 1 60
2 53 54 47 28 1 47 45 28 7 4 59 41 4 45 1 30 47 47 45 42 53 28 51 1 52 1 1
3 1 22 1 30 2 1 2 55 30 1 7 45 47 52 1 4 1 47 1 1 1 1 53 1 52 59 52
4 59 30 2 55 55 13 16 2 53 60 1 4 16 47 48 45 16 56 56 43 45 1 56 1 4 1 13
5 47 45 1 1 22 30 51 1 2 56 38 30 4 1 1 56 1 1 16 1 57 7 56 56 1 22 1
6 54 52 52 45 1 7 55 48 1 58 52 35 28 55 1 38 45 30 55 4 47 7 45 38 45 38 1
7 1 1 1 28 13 56 55 51 54 1 1 1 1 42 2 4 4 1 43 16 47 7 1 13 4 51 4
8 28 53 47 22 8 1 53 59 38 7 43 40 1 52 59 54 30 1 45 16 1 28 23 50 7 43 43
9 1 2 45 51 30 1 52 58 48 59 47 54 4 4 1 47 45 47 56 28 1 45 1 13 7 7 7
10 55 1 53 47 56 1 1 7 1 1 2 60 48 56 1 1 16 1 1 54 1 52 17 30 54 45 45
11 59 56 52 1 45 1 55 28 52 28 1 2 1 52 54 4 43 60 48 28 1 16 23 8 53 7 1
12 2 1 53 52 43 23 2 4 16 52 44 54 1 2 42 7 1 7 47 30 28 48 47 1 54 52 16
13 45 54 23 4 28 45 45 30 1 59 1 56 28 2 54 53 38 2 2 1 28 55 40 60 4 50 28
14 2 13 47 1 1 4 17 45 1 56 1 52 56 51 1 47 55 55 45 7 2 54 1 56 7 1 1
15 23 4 53 54 59 48 13 56 1 47 23 1 2 55 16 1 1 47 40 54 16 52 1 47 60 43 60
16 45 16 43 1 7 47 1 7 1 4 54 54 1 43 28 28 7 1 2 7 52 30 1 4 47 4 13
17 42 1 54 13 1 28 1 45 42 5 48 56 1 1 1 52 54 7 1 1 2 56 56 2 43 1 1
18 56 43 22 45 56 43 2 2 56 1 8 48 59 59 7 16 53 55 53 48 1 1 46 2 30 53 1
19 47 45 1 2 54 56 56 2 55 51 4 16 7 13 30 16 1 1 4 52 52 4 54 47 2 38 1
20 1 54 60 56 54 1 60 1 1 16 40 38 17 1 47 56 33 55 1 1 59 48 1 53 7 1 1
21 1 52 16 1 60 1 30 53 30 7 47 13 13 22 8 13 45 59 54 1 2 42 54 47 53 52 53
22 16 30 1 4 52 47 56 1 28 16 1 22 59 51 1 1 7 28 53 60 7 1 16 16 1 1 58
23 4 53 56 1 52 2 13 52 38 30 45 7 1 30 56 16 1 1 1 30 48 56 54 54 55 28 45
24 1 47 47 1 28 22 1 47 1 1 45 46 1 1 47 53 55 52 1 1 7 43 2 1 1 1 43
25 1 4 53 1 45 43 16 55 52 4 47 55 45 22 51 56 1 38 13 30 2 28 56 13 56 28 55
26 4 16 46 1 1 16 1 1 1 1 1 47 59 4 8 38 58 1 1 48 1 7 22 1 1 1 60
27 52 4 30 56 53 52 54 1 30 52 1 16 54 7 58 1 30 54 1 56 51 53 56 57 56 4 60

9.
Chakra Bandha Example with 5x5 matrix
Example Chakra (5x5) Example Chakra-Bandha (5x5)
1 2 3 4 5 1 2 3 4 5
1 4 53 28 45 4 1 17 24 1 8 15
2 1 45 47 59 54 2 23 5 7 14 16
3 7 16 1 56 55 3 4 6 13 20 22
4 28 43 8 1 52 4 10 12 19 21 3
5 10 51 1 7 7 5 11 18 25 2 9
Result of Applying Bandha
28 7 52 7 45 16 47 45 7 28 10 43 1 59 4 54 4 51 8 56 1 55 1 53 1

10.
Applying Substitution using Kumudendu
Code Table
(Mono-alphabetic Substitution Cipher)
Result after applying Chakra-Bandh (Transpose
Cipher) – from previous slide :

11.
Output from Chakra Bandha Applied to
first Chakra of Siri Bhoovalaya
Resultant text after conjoining phonetic alphabets :

12.
Steganography (Chitra Bandha)
example
In Steganography the intended message is hidden
either to conceal its existence or render it unintelligible
to outsiders. In following example a graphical figure is
used as key to extract the hidden message.

13.
Superimposing the figure on Chakra at
defined position to reveal content in those
particular cells in manner as shown

14.
Result of Chitra-Bandha
Create string of numbers from the Superimposed Chakra’s cells
in the same order as marked on the Chitra-Bandha. Then apply
Mono-alphabetic Substitution Cipher as shown in the table
below:

15.
Conclusion
Siri Bhoovalaya is still a largely un-explored terrain & a creative Multidisciplinary
Approach is required to open up new pages of knowledge. The measures includes:
1. Computerization for Deciphering known Number Patterns (Bandhas) hidden in
Chakras (Algorithmic and Non Algorithmic)
2. Computerization for Discovery of new and yet unexplored Bandhas.
3. Specialist Linguists to apprehend content in respective languages
4. Domain Knowledge Experts to interpret the text.
A Great Question which still remains to be answered :
How could Muni Kumudendu accomplished it about a
thousand year ago ??