India's I.T Industry was born in Yamalokam!

Chitragupta is the quintessential booker-keeper for Yama Dharmaraja, the God of Death.

According to Wikipedia, Padma Purana after stating the legend says: "Chitragupta was placed near Dharamaraj to register the good and evil actions of all sentient beings, that he was possessed of supernatural wisdom and became the partaker of sacrifices offered to the gods and fire. It is for this reason that the twice-born always give him oblations from their food. As he sprang from the body of Lord Brahma he was called Kayastha of numerous gotras on the face of the earth."

Let us try to analyze this from an etymological angle.  Chitragupta can be split into Chitra and Gupta चित्रः  and गुप्तः  . As we know, Chitra literally means a picture or snapshot or synopsis or a full profile, depending upon the context. The word Gupta  गुप्तः literally denotes secrecy or privacy. 

In other words, Chitragupta's job is to maintain the records of all the beings on this earth of the past, present and the future.

Chitragupta is also credited with the first script on Earth, and also acts as a scribe for Yama Dharmaraja. Again, according to Wikipedia, in the Garud Puranam, Chitragupta is hailed as the first man to give the script.

"Chitragupta namastubhyam vedaksaradatre"

(Obeisance to Chitragupta, the giver of letters)

In the picture above, he can be seen with a pen on hand.


The IT Service Industry in India owes it to Chitragupta. How?

1. Chitragupta was born out of Yama desire to Outsource his mission of destroying the body according to Dharmashatra and enable Bhrahma to sustain the cycle of life. Chitragupta was the Project Executive (PE) of choice. He noted down all the Systems Requirement Sepcs (SRSs), came out with a process Design, implemented systems to perform the functionalities required was a master in Change Management Process to enable the System to adapt to the various Yugas (periods of time). Thus was born the BPO Industry - in Yamaloka!
2. He is the pioneer of Security and Privacy. His name itself has Gupt-gyan in it.
3. With having to maintain so many records and having to retrieve them in an instant, he has clearly led Data Storage Management and Archiving.
4. Being the primordial scribe that he is, he clearly has fathered the Transcription line of business.
5. And last but not the least, the Yamalokam is the back-office of the world. The action is on Earth alright, but the records are created, maintained and updated elsewhere. "Off-shoring" at it's height, quite literally!