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Devanāgarī has been widely adopted across India and Nepal to write Sanskrit, Marathi, Hindi, Central Indo-Aryan languages, Konkani, Boro, and various Nepalese languages. Some of the earliest epigraphic evidence attesting to the developing Sanskrit Nāgarī script in ancient India is from the 1st to 4th century CE inscriptions discovered in ...
Being the official script for Hindi, Devanagari is officially used in the Union Government of India as well as several Indian states where Hindi is an official language, Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Jharkhand, Madhya Pradesh, Mizoram, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand, and the Indian union territories of Delhi, Andaman and Nicobar Islands and Dadra and Nagar Haveli ...
Indian rupee symbol in graphic form. The new sign is a combination of the Devanagari letter र ("ra") and the Latin capital letter R without its vertical bar. The parallel lines at the top (with white space between them) makes an allusion to the tricolour Indian flag and also depict an equality sign that symbolizes the nation's desire to reduce economic disparity.
The Indian rupee (symbol: ₹; code: INR) is the official currency in the Republic of India.The rupee is subdivided into 100 paise (Hindi plural; singular: paisa).The issuance of the currency is controlled by the Reserve Bank of India.
The rupee sign "₨" is a currency sign used to represent the monetary unit of account in Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Mauritius, Seychelles, and formerly in India.It resembles, and is often written as, the Latin character sequence "Rs", of which (as a single character) it is an orthographic ligature.
State or territory Adjective Demonym; colloquial; Andaman and Nicobar Islands: Andamanese [1] Nicobarese [1]: Andamanese Nicobarese: Andhra Pradesh: Andhrulu ...
The word also means India in Hindi. The change in nomenclature is backed by officials of Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party. They argue that the name India was introduced by British colonials and is ...
The states of Mizoram, Nagaland, Tripura and Punjab are exceptions where Sanskrit words are not used in the state name. Mizoram was named after the Mizo tribal dialect and refers to their land. [17] Nagaland (18) Nagaland : Land of Nagas: Naga is an exonym used to describe several tribes in the region.