A year passed quietly at CosmicVeda, and yet everything had changed.
The Mehta family no longer lived with worry or restraint. The house looked the same from outside, but inside it breathed easier — new furniture, freshly painted walls, the soft hum of a new refrigerator replacing the old one that had rattled for years. Rajesh and Anita still kept their habits — morning tea at the same table, evening walks to the same corner store — but they smiled more, spoke with ease, and carried a gentleness born from long-denied comfort.
Neighbours noticed small things — a new car parked by the gate, the polished glow of the windows, the way Arjun's younger brother wore better shoes to school. People whispered kindly, but no one asked too many questions. The family still lived modestly, just… lighter.
CosmicVeda, meanwhile, had turned into a phenomenon.
The company appeared in Business Today Magazine, the cover story titled "The Mystery Behind CosmicVeda: The Company with a Genius Founder No One Knows."
The article praised its flawless products, its quiet rise, and its unusual management style — led by the brilliant CEO Neha Kapoor and "an unknown young technologist whose intellect, by all accounts, borders on the extraordinary."
The story estimated CosmicVeda's valuation at ₹480 crore.
Neha became a recognized name in India's corporate world, attending panels and conferences, calmly deflecting journalists' attempts to uncover more about the reclusive founder.
Investment offers poured in from every corner of the world.
Sequoia Capital India, SoftBank Vision Fund, Tiger Global, Accel Partners — all proposed buying minority stakes in exchange for royalties or board representation. Neha discussed them professionally, but every time she brought a proposal to Arjun, his answer was the same:
> "CosmicVeda isn't for sale. Knowledge doesn't belong to investors."
Neha didn't argue. She understood — CosmicVeda was not just a company; it was a living bridge between two kinds of intelligence.
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Arjun's own life had changed in quieter ways.
He realized that a great mind demanded a healthy body.
He had been reading ancient Indian texts again — verses from the Vedas and Yoga Sutras, which spoke of balance between mind, prana, and body. Before sunrise each morning, he began a new ritual: stretching, push-ups, breathing cycles, long meditative stillness.
The transformation was gradual but profound.
His body grew lean and defined, his movements measured and fluid. His eyes held a calm brilliance, and his mind — once fatigued from constant mental strain — now felt sharp and rested. Even Neha noticed it one day in a meeting and smiled, "You look different — calmer, stronger."
Arjun only nodded. "Discipline brings clarity."
And clarity brought him back to his greatest gift — the Library.
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One evening, after his meditation, he sat by his desk with an old Sanskrit grammar book open before him. The language fascinated him — the precision, the layered meanings, the mathematical structure hidden in its grammar.
Panini's ancient system of linguistic rules, the Ashtadhyayi, was, he realized, the oldest form of programming language humanity had ever made — a system so complete it could describe every nuance of meaning through pure logic.
The Library responded to his curiosity.
During meditation, the corridors of light shimmered again, and he was drawn into a section he had not seen before — Computational Semantics. There, luminous books floated open before him, filled with symbols that looked like living equations. They spoke of semantic mathematics, self-correcting syntax, and languages that understood intention.
He saw glimpses of how consciousness could be converted into structured logic — how a code could interpret not just what was written, but what was meant.
The next morning, Arjun began working on a new idea.
He called it, simply, SCL — Sanskrit Computing Language.
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Days blurred into nights as he worked in his small room, his desk scattered with Sanskrit texts, programming books, and scribbled diagrams.
He studied Sanskrit grammar by day, and by night, in meditation, he absorbed advanced computational theories from the Library.
He realized something revolutionary: Sanskrit's sentence structure was naturally suited for computing logic. Its precision, contextual awareness, and phonetic symmetry made it capable of expressing thought without ambiguity — something no modern programming language could achieve.
Python, C++, Java, Rust — they were tools of syntax and instruction.
Sanskrit, by contrast, was a tool of meaning.
The new language he envisioned would combine both worlds — human intent and machine logic.
SCL would understand why a command was given, not just what it was.
It could interpret context, self-optimize, and rewrite its own subroutines for maximum efficiency. A single SCL instruction could replace entire modules of modern code, translating complex processes into elegant, living logic.
For the first time, a programming language would think with its creator.
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Weeks passed in silent creation. Arjun slept little, ate when reminded, and often lost track of time. His parents watched with quiet curiosity — he seemed both distant and peaceful, his focus absolute.
One night, just before dawn, he typed the final line of the prototype interpreter.
He pressed "Run."
The system came alive.
No errors, no delays — only a simple confirmation line on the screen:
"Initialization complete. SCL kernel active."
He leaned back, heart pounding. The air felt charged, alive. For a moment, the boundary between the cosmic and the human blurred, and he knew — something extraordinary had been born in that small room.
It was a language not just of code, but of consciousness.
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He didn't tell anyone — not even Neha. The world wasn't ready yet.
He encrypted the files, backed them up in multiple hidden drives, and stored the main source deep inside his private system.
When he finally went to meditate that morning, the Library shone brighter than ever, its corridors humming softly in resonance with what he had created.
> "From the language of gods to the logic of machines," he whispered. "The circle is complete."
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📘 Arjun Mehta — Yearly Log Book [Year 4 Post-Event]
Age: 24
Company: CosmicVeda Technologies Pvt. Ltd.
Valuation: ₹480 crore (Featured in Business Today: "India's Mystery Tech Genius")
CEO: Neha Kapoor — nationally recognized leader, speaker at NASSCOM and World Tech Forum.
Investment Offers: Sequoia, SoftBank Vision Fund, Tiger Global, Accel Partners (all declined).
Family: Comfortable, content, socially modest yet financially independent.
Physical State: Excellent — disciplined exercise and meditation; increased endurance and mental clarity.
Major Achievement: Creation of SCL (Sanskrit Computing Language) — the first semantic, intent-aware, self-optimizing programming language in human history.
Next Objective: Develop applications using SCL .