jñānena tu tad ajñānam yeṣāṃ nāśitam ātmanaḥ | teṣām ādityavaj jñānaṃ prakāśayati tat param
“As the sun dispels darkness and illuminates everything, so divine knowledge destroys ignorance and reveals the transcendental Absolute Truth.” — Bhagavad-Gītā 5.16
The script of the Sanskrit language is called Devanagari. In the tables below you see the Devanagari glyphs of the Sanskrit alphabet with their respective IAST (International Alphabet of Sanskrit Transliteration) equivalents.
In the first line of the table above you see the Devanagari signs for the vowels. The dotted circles represent the consonants. Examples are: अमृत (amṛta), राम (Rāma), शिव (Śiva), केशव (Keśava), गोपिनाथ (Gopinātha), गौतम (Gautama)
Consonants (vyañjana)
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क
ख
ग
घ
ङ
ka
kha
ga
gha
ṅa
च
छ
ज
झ
ञ
ca
cha
ja
jha
ña
ट
ठ
ड
ढ
ण
ṭa
ṭha
ḍa
ḍha
ṇa
त
थ
द
ध
न
ta
tha
da
dha
na
प
फ
ब
भ
म
pa
pha
ba
bha
ma
य
र
ल
व
ya
ra
la
va
श
ष
स
ह
śa
ṣa
sa
ha
Numbers 0–10
०
१
२
३
४
५
६
७
८
९
१०
0
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
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