* The Devanagari numerals used with Devanagari and related variants are grouped as Indian numerals.

In Devanagari and related orthographies it is represented by the chandrabindu diacritic ( example: म ँ ).

Such is the case in Sanskrit, in whose grammar the sounds now realised as and are conceptually ai and au, and are written that way in the Devanagari and related alphabets.

ISO 15919 Transliteration of Devanagari and related Indic scripts into Latin characters is an international standard for the transliteration of Indic scripts to the Latin script formed in 2001.

( in Devanagari script ) is the Sanskrit word for deity, its related feminine term is devi.

Languages spoken here include Asuri, an Austro-Asiatic language spoken by approximately 17 000, partly in the north of Ranchi ; Bhojpuri, a tongue in the Bihari language group with almost 40 000 000 speakers, written in both the Devanagari and Kaithi scripts ; and Bijori, a Munda language distantly related to Khmer and Vietnamese, spoken by about 25 000.

Braj Bhasha ( Devanagari: ब ् रज भ ा ष ा), also called Brij Bhasha ( ब ॄ ज भ ा ष ा), Braj Bhakha ( ब ् रज भ ा ख ा), or Dehaati Zabaan ( द े ह ा त ी ज ़ ब ा न, ' country tongue '), is a Western Hindi language closely related to Hindi-Urdu.

Hebrew and Arabic also indicate consonant doubling and change with diacritics ; Hebrew and Devanagari use them for foreign sounds.

Devanagari (; ; Devanāgarī — compound of " deva " () and " nāgarī " () ), also called Nagari ( Nāgarī,, the name of its parent writing system ), is an abugida alphabet of India and Nepal.

Gujarati numerical digits are also different from their Devanagari counterparts.

Vajrayana ( Devanagari: वज ् रय ा न ; Oriya: ବଜ ୍ ରଯ ା ନ, Tibetan: ར ྡོ་ ར ྗེ་ ཐ ེ ག ་ པ ་, rdo rje theg pa ; Mongolian: Очирт хөлгөн, Ochirt Hölgön, Chinese: 密宗, mì zōng ) is also known as Tantric Buddhism, Tantrayāna, Mantrayāna, Secret Mantra, Esoteric Buddhism and the Diamond Vehicle.

Sri ( Devanagari: श ् र ी, IAST ; Śrī ), also transliterated as Shri or Shree or shre is a word of Sanskrit origin, used in the Indian subcontinent as polite form of address equivalent to the English " Mr ." in written and spoken language, or as a title of veneration for deities ( usually translated as " Holy ").

Radha ( Devanagari: र ा ध ा, IAST: Rādhā ), also called Radhika, Radharani and Radhikarani, is the childhood friend and lover of Krishna in the Brahma Vaivarta Purana, and the Gita Govinda of the Vaisnava traditions of Hinduism.

Venkateswara () ( Devanagari: व ें कट े श ् वर ) also known as Srinivasa, Balaji and Venkatachalapati (), is a form of the Hindu god Vishnu.

Vedanta (;, Devanagari:, ) was originally a word used in Hindu philosophy as a synonym for that part of the Veda texts also known as the Upanishads.

On the reverse are State emblem and the motto, also in Devanagari.

The Shahi ( Devanagari श ा ह ी), Sahi, also called Shahiya dynasties ruled portions of the Kabul Valley ( in eastern Afghanistan ) and the old province of Gandhara ( northern Pakistan from the decline of the Kushan Empire in 3rd century to the early 9th century.

Satī ( Devanagari: सत ी, the feminine of sat " true "; also called suttee ) was a social funeral practice among some Indian communities in which a recently widowed woman would immolate herself on her husband ’ s funeral pyre.

In the epic Mahābhārata, Draupadi, also known as ( Devanagari: क ृ ष ् ण ा द ् र ौ पद ी; approximate pronunciation: ) is the " emerged " daughter of King Drupada of Panchāla and the wife of the five Pandavas.

This transliteration scheme is also known as Library of Congress and is nearly identical to one of the possible ISO 15919 variants. The tables below mostly use Devanagari but include letters from Kannada, Tamil, Malayalam and Bengali to illustrate the transliteration of non-Devanagari characters.

The overdot is also used in the Devanagari script, where it is called anusvara.

The underdot is also used in the Devanagari script, where it is called nukta.

Tulsidas ( Devanagari: त ु लस ी द ा स,, also known as Goswami Tulsidas ), ( 1497 / 1532 – 1623 ) was a Hindu poet-saint, reformer and philosopher renowned for his devotion for the god Rama.

In Hinduism, Kalki ( Devanagari: कल ् क ि; also rendered by some as Kalkin and Kalaki ) is the tenth and final Maha Avatara ( great incarnation ) of Vishnu who will come to end the present age of darkness and destruction known as Kali Yuga.

Sankrityayan had also advocated that all Hindi-Urdu be standardized on the Devanagari script and Perso-Arabic entirely be abandoned.

Gauri Sankar ( also Gauri Shankar or Gaurishankar ; Devanagari ग ौ र ी श ं कर ; Tibetan: Jomo Tseringma ;) is a mountain in the Himalayas, the second highest peak of the Rolwaling Himal, behind Melungtse ( 7, 181m ).

Mahabali ( IAST: Mahābalī, Devanagari: मह ा बल ी, Malayalam: മ ാ വ േ ല ി, മഹ ാ ബല ി, ) also known as Bali or Māveli was a benevolent Asura King, and the grandson of Prahlada in Indian mythology.

The Magahi language ( Devanagari: मगह ी; also known as Magadhi, मगध ी) is a language spoken in India.

The Bahmani Sultanate ( Devanagari: बहमन ी सल ् तनत ; also called the Bahmanid Empire or Bahmani Kingdom ) was a Muslim state of the Deccan in South India and one of the great medieval Indian kingdoms.

Kachhi is also written in the Devanagari script by some speakers.

Krishna Janmashtami ( Devanagari ), also known as Krishnashtami, Saatam Aatham, Gokulashtami, Ashtami Rohini, Srikrishna Jayanti, Sree Jayanti or sometimes merely as Janmashtami, is an annual commemoration of the birth of Krishna, the eighth avatar of Vishnu.

Devanagari is typically an abugida augmented with dedicated letters for initial vowels, though some traditions use अ as a zero consonant as the graphic base for such vowels.

The sign inventory of IAST ( both small and capital letters ) shown with Devanāgarī equivalents and phonetic values in IPA, is as follows ( valid for Sanskrit ; for Hindi and other modern languages that use Devanagari script, some phonological changes have occurred ):

In the early 20th century, it began to be replaced by the Devanagari script in religious and scholarly texts, and the normal Tamil script ( with the use of diacritics ) in popular texts.

For people and systems using non-Latin scripts ( such as Arabic, Bengali, Chinese, Cyrillic, Devanagari, Greek, Hangul, and Japanese ), the English alphabet may be unavailable or difficult to use, understand, or correctly interpret.

There is an ongoing debate within the Saurashtra community regarding the use of the script for the Sourashtra language right from 1920 when a resolution was passed to adopt Devanagari Script for Sourashtra Language.

The writing system used for Awadhi is usually Devanagari or Kaithi, although some people use a mixture of both.

Bodos use Devanagari script as medium of writing, but NDFB promotes Latin script to suite their agenda.

ITRANS was in use for the encoding of Indian etexts-it is wider in scope than the Harvard-Kyoto scheme for Devanagari transliteration, with which it coincides largely, but not entirely.

When written in Devanagari, Vedic Sanskrit has an alphabet of 53 letters, including the visarga mark for final aspiration and special letters for kš and jñ, though one of the letters is theoretical and not actually used.

Sanskrit and other languages written in the Devanagari script, along with many other languages using alphabetic or syllabic scripts, do not distinguish upper and lower case and do not mark proper names systematically.