சமஸ்கிருதத்தில் 51 அக்ஷரங்கள் உள்ளன. அக்ஷர என்றால் அழிக்க முடியாதது என்று பொருள். ஒவ்வொரு அக்ஷரமும் ஒரு தனிமத்துடன் தொடர்புடையது. எனவே எந்த பூஜை அல்லது விதியைத் தொடங்குவதற்கு முன்பும், நியாசம் உள்ளது. நியாசத்தில், தொடர்புடைய உடல் உறுப்பின் பகுதியைத் தொட்டு அதை உற்சாகப்படுத்த வேண்டும்.
https://x.com/NeenaRai/status/1994395965768466696?s=20
Do you know that Sanskrit has 51 aksharas. Akshara means that which cannot be destroyed. Each akshara is related to an element. Therefore before the start of any puja or vidhi, there is Nyasa. In Nyasa, one touches the part of the associated body part to energise it.
ஐம்பது எழுத்தே அனைத்து வேதங்களும்
ஐம்பது எழுத்தே அனைத்து ஆகமங்களும்
ஐம்பது எழுத்தேயும் ஆவது அறிந்த பின்
ஐம்பது எழுத்தும் போய் அஞ்செழுத்தாமே.
These 51 alphabets are 51 energy centres of are body which are connected through Mahashodhanyaas.
अ(Kapal)
इ(Right eye)
उ(Right nostril)
ऋ(Upper lip)
ऌ(Right ear)
आ(Mukh Vratt)
ई(Right Eye)
ऊ(left nose)
ॠ(lower lip)
ॡ(left Ear)
ए(Right temple)
ऐ(left temple)
ओ(Upper jaw)
औ(Lower jaw)
अं(Nasal Cavity)
अः (Mouth)
ह(Ras)
य(Rakta)
व(Asthi)
र(Mans)
ल(Medh)
श(Majja)
ष(Veerya)
स(Sampurna Sharir)
ळ(Talu)
क्ष(Sharir+Aatma)
क(Right Hand Shoulder Joint)
ख(Right hand Elbow)
ग(Right Hand wrist)
घ(Right hand finger joint)
ङ(Right hand between finger joints)
च(LH- Shoulder Joint)
छ(LH-Elbow)
ज(RH- Wrist)
झ(RH- finger Joints)
ञ(LH-Between finger Joints)
ट(Right foot Thigh & Hipjoint)
ठ(RF-Knee)
ड(RF- Ankle)
ढ(RF-finger Joint)
ण(RF-Finger joint)
त(left foot thigh & hip joint)
थ(Lf-Knee)
द(Lf-Ankle)
ध(Lf-finger joint)
न(Lf-between fingerjoint)
प(Back bone)
फ(Pancreas)
ब(Nabhi)
भ(Buddhi)
म(Mann)
These are done in many esoteric practices as well as tantra. List courtesy - Gaurav Shukla, Aarti Shukla.அ(கபால்)
இ(வலது கண்)
उ(வலது நாசி)
ऋ(மேல் உதடு)
(வலது காது)
ஆ(முக் வ்ரட்)
இ(வலது கண்)
ஊ(இடது மூக்கு)
ॠ(கீழ் உதடு)
ॡ(இடது காது)
எ(வலது கோவில்)
ऐ(இடது கோவில்)
ஓ(மேல் தாடை)
औ(கீழ் தாடை)
அம்(நாசி குழி)
अः (வாய்)
ஹ(ராஸ்)
ய(ரக்தா)
வ(அஸ்தி)
ர(மனிதர்கள்)
எல்(மெத்)
श(மஜ்ஜா)
ष(வீர்யா)
ச(சம்பூர்ணா ஷரீர்)
ळ(தாலு)
க்ஷ(ஷரிர்+ஆத்மா)
க(வலது கை தோள்பட்டை மூட்டு)
ख(வலது கை முழங்கை)
ग(வலது கை மணிக்கட்டு)
घ(வலது கை விரல் மூட்டு)
ङ(வலது கை விரல் மூட்டுகளுக்கு இடையில்)
च(LH- தோள்பட்டை மூட்டு)
छ(LH- முழங்கை)
ज(RH- மணிக்கட்டு)
झ(RH- விரல் மூட்டுகள்)
ञ(LH- விரல் மூட்டுகளுக்கு இடையில்)
ट(வலது கால் தொடை மற்றும் இடுப்பு மூட்டு)
ठ(RF- முழங்கால்)
ड(RF- கணுக்கால்)
ढ(RF- விரல் மூட்டு)
ण(RF- விரல் மூட்டு)
त(இடது கால் தொடை மற்றும் இடுப்பு மூட்டு)
थ(Lf- முழங்கால்)
द(Lf- கணுக்கால்)
ध(Lf- விரல் மூட்டு)
न(விரல் மூட்டுக்கு இடையில்)
प(முதுகு எலும்பு)
फ(கணையம்)
ப(நபி)
ப(புத்தி)
ம(மன்)
INDIA'S OLDEST METAL INSCRIPTION:
Links to Vedic Heritage, Chanakya & Coins
In 1874 a farmer in Sohgaura village, near Gorakhpur, found a tiny plate with ancient text. In early 2025, Bahaj site, near Mathura, yielded ancient coins. Both with a curious symbol. This 
is their story:
The Latest Find
Archaeologists led by Gupta found a hoard of coins at the Bahaj Rajasthan site. Gupta says the depth of find, stratigraphy, dates them to 700–500 BC.
Many Bahaj coins bear one curious symbol: three stacked semi-circles, a crescent on top, some with a dot inside the crescent (see below)
This curious mark appears on some ancient coin hoards discovered in Varanasi, Mathura, Taxila, Kashmir, Bengal, the Deccan etc
The curious mark is also found on the Sohgaura plate; on the Patna copper band, Bulandibagh bowls, Kumrahar pillar, Rampurva bolt, etc
The Sohgaura Plate
The plate is tiny—barely a third the size of iPhone screen.
People call it a copper plate. It is bronze.
It was cast in a hard mould, the letters stick out! Many copies; Ancient India was mass producing cast metal signs, 2300 years ago! Sohgaura plate is India’s oldest known inscription on metal.
On top, a row of symbols. Below it, 4 lines of text. The script looks like Brahmi, but older—proto-Brahmi. Fleet, the great epigraphist, said: "the spelling, the archaic letters, the style—all point to early Maurya era (c. 320 BC), or even before" That is Chandragupta Maurya-Chanakya era, or just before.
The message on Sohgaura plate is simple and fascinating. Scholars argue over words, but they agree on the meaning: “These two storehouses— for grain and fodder—are for times of urgent distress, not for daily use.”
At the top of the plate, two small buildings are shown (storehouses). Between them stands our curious symbol again in center: three hills, crescent moon, dot.
Four holes pierce the corners. The plate was nailed beside a door for all to read.
Nothing on Sohgaura plate mentions Buddha or Ashoka.
What Does the Symbol Mean?
No one knows for certain.
Scholars guess: sunrise and hills, moonrise, a royal mark, huts or stupa, stacked chariots, simply an auspicious sign. If so, it was everywhere, then gone.
Another guess: In 1951, Walawalkar suggested that Om/Aum (ॐ) is ancient, must have early Brahmi roots; "ma" is "" in Brahmi; his arguments.... our curious symbol is ॐ turned sideways; it never vanished, just looks different! if Walawalkar is wrong, when and how did the symbol for AUM become ॐ?
Links to Chanakya and the Vedas
Chemical tests on ancient coins bearing our curious symbol match the silver-copper ratios prescribed in Arthasastra 2.12.24–27.
The curious symbol appears only during the reign of Chandragupta Maurya, Bindusara and Ashoka. After about 200 BC it vanishes.
The Sohgaura plate message match Arthasastra 2.12.1–4, which says the king should build public granaries all over the country for famine, flood, war. The Sohgaura plate uses the same language, terms. Must be linked.
Roots go deeper. The word and idea—kosthagara—in Sohgaura plate appears in Shatapatha Brahmana, Aitareya Brahmana, other Vedic texts for storehouses.
Even the Buddha sermons speak of such granaries as already ancient. Kurudhamma Jataka (Jataka 276) etc mention public granaries and storehouses, just like Arthasastra and Sohgaura plate inscription. The tradition is thus older than Mauryas, older than Buddha.... a Vedic heritage.
Why It Matters
The Sohgaura plate bears no trace of Ashoka. It is almost certainly pre-Ashoka.
Yet it was mass-produced in bronze and written in a script ordinary people could read by or before about 300 BC.
That tells us three hard truths:
– The script was already old and widespread centuries before Ashoka. Why would anyone mass produce Sohgaura-like plates, if no one can read it?
– Literacy was high enough to justify nailing public notices on granary doors.
– A society that could read those notices must have been literate long before Ashoka came along, adopted Buddhism and had his edicts inscribed all over India.
On culture: Ancient India, rooted in Vedic heritage, built public granaries, cared for the poor in times of crisis, and taught its people to read—long before the age of famous emperors.
The little bronze plate from Sohgaura found by a farmer near Gorakhpur in UP, and the coins from Bahaj found recently in Rajasthan, say so.
is their story:
The Latest Find
Archaeologists led by Gupta found a hoard of coins at the Bahaj Rajasthan site. Gupta says the depth of find, stratigraphy, dates them to 700–500 BC.
Many Bahaj coins bear one curious symbol: three stacked semi-circles, a crescent on top, some with a dot inside the crescent (see below)
This curious mark appears on some ancient coin hoards discovered in Varanasi, Mathura, Taxila, Kashmir, Bengal, the Deccan etc
The curious mark is also found on the Sohgaura plate; on the Patna copper band, Bulandibagh bowls, Kumrahar pillar, Rampurva bolt, etc
The Sohgaura Plate
The plate is tiny—barely a third the size of iPhone screen.
People call it a copper plate. It is bronze.
It was cast in a hard mould, the letters stick out! Many copies; Ancient India was mass producing cast metal signs, 2300 years ago! Sohgaura plate is India’s oldest known inscription on metal.
On top, a row of symbols. Below it, 4 lines of text. The script looks like Brahmi, but older—proto-Brahmi. Fleet, the great epigraphist, said: "the spelling, the archaic letters, the style—all point to early Maurya era (c. 320 BC), or even before" That is Chandragupta Maurya-Chanakya era, or just before.
The message on Sohgaura plate is simple and fascinating. Scholars argue over words, but they agree on the meaning: “These two storehouses— for grain and fodder—are for times of urgent distress, not for daily use.”
At the top of the plate, two small buildings are shown (storehouses). Between them stands our curious symbol again in center: three hills, crescent moon, dot.
Four holes pierce the corners. The plate was nailed beside a door for all to read.
Nothing on Sohgaura plate mentions Buddha or Ashoka.
What Does the Symbol Mean?
No one knows for certain.
Scholars guess: sunrise and hills, moonrise, a royal mark, huts or stupa, stacked chariots, simply an auspicious sign. If so, it was everywhere, then gone.
Another guess: In 1951, Walawalkar suggested that Om/Aum (ॐ) is ancient, must have early Brahmi roots; "ma" is "" in Brahmi; his arguments.... our curious symbol is ॐ turned sideways; it never vanished, just looks different! if Walawalkar is wrong, when and how did the symbol for AUM become ॐ?
Links to Chanakya and the Vedas
Chemical tests on ancient coins bearing our curious symbol match the silver-copper ratios prescribed in Arthasastra 2.12.24–27.
The curious symbol appears only during the reign of Chandragupta Maurya, Bindusara and Ashoka. After about 200 BC it vanishes.
The Sohgaura plate message match Arthasastra 2.12.1–4, which says the king should build public granaries all over the country for famine, flood, war. The Sohgaura plate uses the same language, terms. Must be linked.
Roots go deeper. The word and idea—kosthagara—in Sohgaura plate appears in Shatapatha Brahmana, Aitareya Brahmana, other Vedic texts for storehouses.
Even the Buddha sermons speak of such granaries as already ancient. Kurudhamma Jataka (Jataka 276) etc mention public granaries and storehouses, just like Arthasastra and Sohgaura plate inscription. The tradition is thus older than Mauryas, older than Buddha.... a Vedic heritage.
Why It Matters
The Sohgaura plate bears no trace of Ashoka. It is almost certainly pre-Ashoka.
Yet it was mass-produced in bronze and written in a script ordinary people could read by or before about 300 BC.
That tells us three hard truths:
– The script was already old and widespread centuries before Ashoka. Why would anyone mass produce Sohgaura-like plates, if no one can read it?
– Literacy was high enough to justify nailing public notices on granary doors.
– A society that could read those notices must have been literate long before Ashoka came along, adopted Buddhism and had his edicts inscribed all over India.
On culture: Ancient India, rooted in Vedic heritage, built public granaries, cared for the poor in times of crisis, and taught its people to read—long before the age of famous emperors.
The little bronze plate from Sohgaura found by a farmer near Gorakhpur in UP, and the coins from Bahaj found recently in Rajasthan, say so.
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