The Indus script has been deciphered — using the same cryptographic method that cracked Mary Queen of Scots’ cipher — and the language it reveals is Sanskrit.
Independent researcher YajnaDevam presents a comprehensive lecture on the Indus Valley Civilization, applying mathematician Claude Shannon’s cryptogram method to the Indus script corpus. Shannon’s theory provides a quantitative threshold distinguishing reliable decipherment from speculative one — and by that standard, YajnaDevam argues, the Indus script yields a singular reliable reading pointing to Proto-Sanskrit. The key evidence: Sanskrit attestation exists in Indus Valley context from 3000 BCE; no competing language has attested presence in that geography at that time.
The civilizational data points are striking: Indus Valley had a population of 5 million — the largest concentration in the ancient world — sustained by a climate without ice-age disruption, fertile agricultural lands, and extraordinarily advanced metallurgy including copper-iron alloys with specific intended properties. The swastika symbol appearing in the Indus script from 3000 BCE dismantles the claim that it entered India only in 1200 BCE. The implications of a confirmed Sanskrit-Indus Valley continuity would rewrite the entire Aryan debate from its foundations.

About the Speaker:
Yajnadevam is a cryptographer & computer programmer interested in political theory, linguistics, ancient manuscripts & history. Combining his broad experience in languages & scripts together with programming & regular expressions, he will present his decipherment of the Indus script.