Hidden texts
Hidden texts
Take one letter from each verse of a chapter, such as the last, and read them in order. In many chapters those letters spell a verse from another book: the Bhagavad Gītā, or a Jain hymn.
Each passage here was rebuilt from the numbers and passed three tests. At least three in four letters match the book. It beats 1,000 shuffles of the same letters. It also beats 1,000 other verses of the same length.
Searches
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Tamil, Telugu and ten other languages
We searched for running text in Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam, Tulu, Marathi, Gujarati, Bengali, Odia, Hindi, Pali, Apabhraṃśa and Ardhamāgadhī, using full libraries of each: about 1.9 billion sounds. The search covered every page, many routes, letter places from the start and end of each verse, and 14 different number-to-sound tables. Test passages planted in the grids were found. The real grids gave none.
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The other reading shapes
Chapter 4 names dozens of shapes for reading a page. Only the wheel is known. We drew 47 shapes from their names, in every turn and mirror, and read every page with each. None gave new text.
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What the verses mean
The English drafts are rough. The poem needs people who read Old Kannada. Help translate.
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The lost reading shapes
No one knows the routes for most of the named shapes. Try your own.