Devanagari
देवनागरी devanagariThe script in which Sanskrit and Hindi are most often written and printed today; its name means 'of the city of the gods.' Descended from brahmi, it became the standard for printed Sanskrit only in the print era.
Where this term appears
- The Twelve Jyotirlingas Temples
Here is the famous opening verse, in Devanagari and transliteration, after greenmesg.org: सौराष्ट्रे सोमनाथं च श्रीशैले मल्लिकार्जुनम् । उज्जयिन्यां महाकालम् ॐकारममलेश्वरम् ॥१॥ Saurashtre Somanatham ca Shrishai…
- What is the Sri Yantra? Lineages
Shamasastry carried it into English in The Origin of the Devanagari Alphabets , at page 16 of the Varanasi reprint, printing the Sanskrit word in brackets beside his translation so that any reader could see exa…
- Is the Bhagavad Gita an interpolation in the Mahabharata? Journal
…very corner of the tradition, the Sharada manuscripts of Kashmir, the Devanagari of the north, the Bengali, the Grantha and Malayalam and Telugu of the south, and compared them line by line to reconstruct the e…
- The Branching Hand Treatise
…cript of Kashmir; the Nagari hand that would later be standardized as Devanagari ; and an eastern branch that yields the proto-Bengali-Assamese scripts and Odia.
- The Library Without Walls Treatise
There is the Sanskrit Documents site, sanskritdocuments.org, a volunteer collection that offers its texts in Devanagari, other scripts and IAST transliteration.
- The Mundaka Upanishad: two birds, and the lower knowledge Treatise
Two words of that verse, Satyameva Jayate , were adopted as the national motto of the Republic of India in 1950, inscribed in Devanagari beneath the Lion Capital of Ashoka on the state emblem.
- The Press Treatise
A compositor reaches into a known number of compartments. The Devanagari script does not behave like that.
- The Svacchanda Tantra: the fight over what was in the cup Lineages
Sharada and Devanagari manuscripts carry the text together with Kshemaraja's commentary.