A Candidate Decipherment of the Voynich Manuscript: Evidence for a Phonetic Transcription of Spoken Elu-Sinhala (V2)

The Voynich Manuscript (Beinecke MS 408, carbon-dated 1404-1438 CE) is identified as a 15th-century Elu-Sinhala pharmaceutical text — a teaching manual recording a physician's spoken instructions for Ayurvedic preparations. The writing system is a bespoke abugida mapping 27 EVA characters to 14 Sinhala phonemes. v6 adds: Datura f16v text-illustration convergence (decoded label matches unmistakable seed capsule illustration), bathing section (f75-f84) decoded as Ayurvedic balneotherapy, expanded plant inventory (15 species), long vowel recovery rules (28-30), context-aware polysemy (4 plant terms), version history (v1-v6). Key results: 90.9% of 35,916 tokens glossable, 99.4% dictionary match, keyword-section clustering Z=31.81, directionality flip RTL to LTR, SOV syntax Z=7.04/4.19, pharmaceutical collocations 16/36 confirmed, external pharma Z=3.5.