Devanagari
(n.) The character in which Sanskrit is written. | ||||
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Devanagari Definition from Language, Idioms & Slang Dictionaries & Glossaries
| WordNet 2.0 |
Devanagari
Noun
1. a syllabic script used in writing Sanskrit and Hindi
(synonym) Devanagari script, Nagari, Nagari script
(hypernym) syllabary, syllabic script
Noun
1. a syllabic script used in writing Sanskrit and Hindi
(synonym) Devanagari script, Nagari, Nagari script
(hypernym) syllabary, syllabic script
| hEnglish - advanced version |
devanagari
devanagari
\de`va*na"ga*ri\ (?), n. [skr. d&?;vanāgarī; d&?;va god + nagara city, i. e., divine city.] the character in which sanskrit is written.
devanagari
\de`va*na"ga*ri\ (?), n. [skr. d&?;vanāgarī; d&?;va god + nagara city, i. e., divine city.] the character in which sanskrit is written.
Devanagari Definition from Religion & Spirituality Dictionaries & Glossaries
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Devanagari
Devanagari (Sanskrit) "Divine city writing," the alphabetic script of Aryan India, in which the Sanskrit language is usually written. The Devanagari alphabet and the art of writing it were kept secret for ages, and the dvijas (twice-born) and the dikshitas (initiates) alone were originally permitted to use this literary art. In India, as in many other countries which have been the seat of archaic civilizations, sacred and secret records were committed to the tablets of the mind, rather than to material tablets. Alone the priesthood invariably had, in addition to the mnemonic records, an ideographic or syllabic script which was used when considered convenient or necessary, mainly for intercommunication between themselves and brother-initiates speaking other tongues. This applied to ideographic characters which can be read with equal facility by those acquainted with them, whatever their spoken mother-tongue may be, and to written characters imbodying an archaic or sacred language, as was the case with the ancient Sanskrit. This is the main reason why these ancient peoples have so few allusions -- and sometimes no allusions at all -- to writing; in the civilizations of those far past times writing was not found to be a need and was kept as a sacred art for the temple scribes.
"Devanagari is as old as the Vedas, and held so sacred that the Brahmans, first under penalty of death, and later on, of eternal ostracism, were not even allowed to mention it to profane ears, much less to make known the existence of their secret temple libraries" (Five Years of Theosophy 360).
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Devanagari (Sanskrit) "Divine city writing," the alphabetic script of Aryan India, in which the Sanskrit language is usually written. The Devanagari alphabet and the art of writing it were kept secret for ages, and the dvijas (twice-born) and the dikshitas (initiates) alone were originally permitted to use this literary art. In India, as in many other countries which have been the seat of archaic civilizations, sacred and secret records were committed to the tablets of the mind, rather than to material tablets. Alone the priesthood invariably had, in addition to the mnemonic records, an ideographic or syllabic script which was used when considered convenient or necessary, mainly for intercommunication between themselves and brother-initiates speaking other tongues. This applied to ideographic characters which can be read with equal facility by those acquainted with them, whatever their spoken mother-tongue may be, and to written characters imbodying an archaic or sacred language, as was the case with the ancient Sanskrit. This is the main reason why these ancient peoples have so few allusions -- and sometimes no allusions at all -- to writing; in the civilizations of those far past times writing was not found to be a need and was kept as a sacred art for the temple scribes.
"Devanagari is as old as the Vedas, and held so sacred that the Brahmans, first under penalty of death, and later on, of eternal ostracism, were not even allowed to mention it to profane ears, much less to make known the existence of their secret temple libraries" (Five Years of Theosophy 360).
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Devanagari Definition from Computer & Internet Dictionaries & Glossaries
| JDK Doc(JAVA) |
DEVANAGARI
- Static variable in class java.lang.Character.UnicodeBlock
public static final Character.UnicodeBlock DEVANAGARI
Constant for the Unicode character block of the same name.
- Static variable in class java.lang.Character.UnicodeBlock
public static final Character.UnicodeBlock DEVANAGARI
Constant for the Unicode character block of the same name.
Devanagari Definition from Encyclopedia Dictionaries & Glossaries
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Devanāgarī
(, ) is an abugida script used to write several Indian languages, including Sanskrit, Hindi, Marathi, Sindhi, Bihari, Bhili, Marwari, Konkani, Bhojpuri, Pahari (Garhwali and Kumaoni), Santhali Language; languages from Nepal like Nepali, Newari, Tharu and sometimes Kashmiri and Romani. It is written and read from left to right.
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