Bengali Numerology
On the great morning of Durga Puja, nine plants are bound into a single form and bathed as the goddess herself. Render your name in the Bengali bornomala and discover the patrika that crowns its root.
“যা দেবী সর্বভূতেষু শক্তিরূপেণ সংস্থিতা — to the Goddess who dwells in all beings as power. — Devi Mahatmya.”
Enter a name to read its Bengali value.
The Bornomala
Each Latin letter with the Bengali letter shown for it and the value it counts on the 1–9 wheel. A Bengali letter that stands in for two Latin letters appears once for each.
A · a
1
B · ba
2
C · ca
3
D · da
4
E · e
5
F · pha
6
G · ga
7
H · ha
8
I · i
9
J · ja
1
K · ka
2
L · la
3
M · ma
4
N · na
5
O · o
6
P · pa
7
Q · ka
8
R · ra
9
S · sa
1
T · ta
2
U · u
3
V · ba
4
W · ba
5
X · ksha
6
Y · ya
7
Z · ja
8
The Nabapatrika
From the bornomala to the nine leaves of the kola bou
The nine readings on this page come from the Nabapatrika, the bundle of nine plants bathed and dressed as the goddess on the morning of Saptami during Durga Puja, often called the kola bou. Each plant stands for a form of the Devi, from the plantain of Brahmani to the paddy of Lakshmi. Here that sequence simply gives a name to each digit from 1 to 9.
The calculator itself is narrow. You type one name in Latin letters; there is no birth date field. Accents are removed, hyphens count as spaces and anything outside A to Z is dropped, so a name typed in Bangla script is not counted; the page asks you to type the Roman spelling instead. Each remaining letter gets a value from the Pythagorean wheel, A to I as 1 to 9 and then J and S starting again at 1, and is drawn as one Bangla letter chosen by sound. Every letter stands alone, with no conjuncts or vowel signs, so the row never spells মারিয়া, only ম অ র ই অ. The sum is the Bengali Value; its digits are added until one remains, and that digit picks the patrika.
Read the letter row for Maria Silva from left to right: ম 4, অ 1, র 9, ই 9, অ 1, স 1, ই 9, ল 3, ব 4, অ 1. Those ten cells add up to 42, which reduces to 6, Raktadantika in the pomegranate. Now try Mariya Silva, the spelling many Bengali families would write. One extra cell, য় worth 7, lifts the sum to 49; 4 and 9 make 13, then 4, and the patrika becomes Kartiki in the jayanti leaf. One sound changes the reading, so enter the spelling you actually use.
The large figure is working, there to be checked against the row. The digit and its patrika are the result, shown with the plant, a short theme and a passage. Treat Raktadantika's crowded seeds as a question about where your care and energy go, not as a portrait of you. The bornomala grid and the Nabapatrika list below are the same for everyone.
Two cautions. The values follow the order of the Latin alphabet, a modern Western overlay; no Bengali tradition assigns these numbers to these letters, and pairing digits with patrikas is this site's own idea. The glyphs are approximate too: V and W appear as ব, the letter Bangla uses for those sounds, so ব also stands for B yet counts 2, 4 or 5 depending on the letter you typed, and Y appears as য়.
The page can show how one spelling of a name adds up and which of the nine leaves it lands on; it cannot describe your character or say what lies ahead.
This result is the numerology tradition's symbolic interpretation — an invitation to reflect, not a scientific prediction or a fact about you.
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