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Some of the earliest epigraphical evidence attesting to the developing Sanskrit Nagari script in ancient India is from the 1st to 4th century CE inscriptions discovered in Gujarat. Devanagari has been widely adopted across India and Nepal to write Sanskrit, Marathi, Hindi, Hindi dialects, Konkani, Boro and Nepali. It is a descendant of the 3rd century BCE Brahmi script, which evolved into the Nagari script which in turn gave birth to Devanagari and Nandinagari. History ĭevanagari is part of the Brahmic family of scripts of India, Nepal, Tibet, and Southeast Asia. According to Fischer, Nagari emerged in the northwest Indian subcontinent around 633 CE, was fully developed by the 11th-century, and was one of the major scripts used for the Sanskrit literature. The use of the name devanāgarī emerged from the older term nāgarī. And hence interpret it as " of the city of the gods". ĭevanagari Script known as 'Script of the divine city' came from Devanagara or the 'city of the god'. It is a phrasing with lipi ("script") as nāgarī lipi "script relating to a city", or "spoken in city". Nāgarī is the Sanskrit feminine of Nāgara "relating or belonging to a town or city, urban". Hence, Devanagari denotes from the abode of divinity or deities. Nagari comes from नगरम् ( nagaram), which means abode or city. Deva means "heavenly or divine" and is also one of the terms for a deity in Hinduism. ![]()
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