Lexic.us

Definition of Devanagari script

1. Noun. A syllabic script used in writing Sanskrit and Hindi.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Devanagari Script

Literary usage of Devanagari script

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Journal of the American Oriental Society by American Oriental Society (1906)
"Roth's Devanagari script. The value of T has been in supplying some of what is missing in the original on the first few folios. The whole of fl is gone. ..."

2. The Alphabet: An Account of the Origin and Development of Letters by ISAAC. TAYLOR (1883)
"... and may be compared to the foot and head lines seen in most of our modern Roman capitals, such as H, I, or K. In the classical Devanagari script this ..."

3. An Almanack for the Year of Our Lord by Joseph Whitaker (1869)
"OFFICIAL LANGUAGE The Constitution (Art, 343) provides that the official language of the Union shall be Hindi In the Devanagari script and the form of ..."

4. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"These three developments of the ancient Javanese tongue are written in alphabets borrowed from the alphabet of the Devanagari script and adapted to the ..."

5. Isis Unveiled: A Master-key to the Mysteries of Ancient and Modern Science by Helena Petrovna Blavatsky (1891)
"El .•. of the Mystic City ; of a well-known form of the Devanagari script of the (French) Sages of the Pyramids; ..."

6. Man, Past and Present by Augustus Henry Keane (1899)
"... on an animated correspondence in their degraded Devanagari script, which is written on palm-leaves in vertical lines running upwards and from right to ..."

7. The New International Encyclopædia edited by Daniel Coit Gilman, Harry Thurston Peck, Frank Moore Colby (1904)
"The alphabets were formerly numerous, but fell into two classes, the Arabic and those derived from the Sanskrit Devanagari script, and uniformity in this ..."

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