Akshara Samkhya — Sanskrit Name Number
Katapayadi / Akshara-samkhya — the classical Sanskrit-native letter-to-number system. Enter your name in IAST transliteration (e.g. "rama"). Vowels carry no value; consonants mapped per varga.
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What This Reading Is, And How It Works
Akṣara-saṁkhyā is the Sanskrit-tradition system of mapping Devanāgarī consonants to numbers — the Kaṭapayādi scheme of classical India. It encodes a name into a numerical signature using the consonant-to-digit table that has organized Indian mathematical and astronomical texts for over a thousand years.
What This Reading Tells You
- Your name reduced through the classical Kaṭapayādi consonant-to-number table.
- The resulting number and its planetary association.
- How the Sanskrit-tradition system differs from the Western Chaldean tradition (different table, different digits).
Classical Tradition
The Kaṭapayādi system is documented in classical Indian mathematical and astronomical works, and is the genuine Indian-tradition method for letter-to-number transliteration. The Kaṭapayādi table assigns digits 1–9 (and 0) to consonant classes per a specific classical scheme — different from the Western Chaldean and Pythagorean tables.
How We Compute It
Your name in Devanāgarī (or the closest IAST transliteration) is broken into consonants. Each consonant maps to a digit per the Kaṭapayādi table. The digits are concatenated and then reduced to a single number, which is read against the planetary correspondence.
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