From Śeṣa to Protocol: A Closed-Corpus Source-Code Analysis of the 15 November 2008 Bitcoin Pre-Release through Indic Categories

This preprint presents a closed-corpus source-code analysis of the 15 November 2008 Bitcoin pre-release archive, bitcoin-nov08.rar, treated as the earliest publicly available pre-genesis Bitcoin implementation witness listed by the Satoshi Nakamoto Institute. The paper reconstructs the foundational protocol primitives directly from the fixed source corpus and argues for a bounded formal-subsumption interpretation through documented Indic categories of valid knowledge, nullity, remainder, authority, disciplined work, order, and restraint. The paper does not claim historical derivation from Indic texts. Its narrower claim is that the protocol basis visible in the verified pre-release corpus can be formally classified through an older documented rule vocabulary with unusual precision. The manuscript is accompanied by a separate reproducibility archive containing the verified corpus artifact, line-numbered source appendix, evidence matrix, manifests, and executable witness model. The supporting research package is archived separately at Zenodo concept DOI 10.5281/zenodo.20610416, with current package version DOI 10.5281/zenodo.20610605.