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Santipur OT is a beautiful font reflecting a very early [medieval era] typesetting style for Devanagari. Sanskrit 2003 [84] is a good all-around font and has more ligatures than most fonts, though students will probably find the spacing of the CDAC-Gist Surekh [68] font makes for quicker comprehension and reading.
The Brahmi script also evolved into the Nagari script, which in turn evolved into Devanagari and Nandinagari. Both were used to write Sanskrit, until the latter was merged into the former. The resulting script is widely adopted across India to write Sanskrit, Marathi, Hindi and its dialects, and Konkani.
Brahmic scripts descended from the Brahmi script. Brahmi is clearly attested from the 3rd century BCE during the reign of Ashoka, who used the script for imperial edicts. Northern Brahmi gave rise to the Gupta script during the Gupta period, which in turn diversified into a number of cursives during the medieval period.
Devanagari is an Indic script used for many Indo-Aryan languages of North India and Nepal, including Hindi, Marathi and Nepali, which was the script used to write Classical Sanskrit. There are several somewhat similar methods of transliteration from Devanagari to the Roman script (a process sometimes called romanisation ), including the ...
The Nāgarī script is the ancestor of Devanagari, Nandinagari and other variants, and was first used to write Prakrit and Sanskrit. The term is sometimes used as a synonym for Devanagari script. [7] [8] [9] It came in vogue during the first millennium CE. [10] The Nāgarī script has roots in the ancient Brahmi script family. [9]
1st century CE Mora Well Inscription in Brahmi script Vasu Doorjamb Inscription 1st century CE Mountain Temple Inscription. The earliest known stone inscriptions in Sanskrit are in the Brahmi script from the first century BCE. [1] [a] [b] These include the Ayodhyā (Uttar Pradesh) and Hāthībādā-Ghosuṇḍī (near Chittorgarh, Rajasthan ...
The font includes Vedic accents and many additional signs and provides maximal support for Devanagari script." [1] The Chandas font has glyphs in the Southern style of Devanagari script, which is the most commonly used today, but there is a companion font, Uttara which has glyphs that follow the old Northern or Kolkata style of Devanagari.