The Sanskrit Alphabet
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.
Fast recitation of the whole sanskrit alphabet:
Vowels (svara)
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| अ | आ | इ | ई | उ | ऊ | ऋ | ॠ | ऌ | ए | ऐ | ओ | औ | अं | अः |
| a | ā | i | ī | u | ū | ṛ | ṝ | ḷ | e | ai | o | au | aṃ | aḥ |
| ा | ि | ी | ु | ू | ृ | ॄ | े | ै | ो | ौ | ् |
| ā | i | ī | u | ū | ṛ | ṝ | e | ai | o | au | virāma |
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 | च | छ | ज | झ | ञ |
| ka | kha | ga | gha | ṅa | ca | cha | ja | jha | ña |
| ट | ठ | ड | ढ | ण | त | थ | द | ध | न |
| ṭa | ṭha | ḍa | ḍha | ṇa | ta | tha | da | dha | na |
| प | फ | ब | भ | म | य | र | ल | व | श | ष | स | ह |
| pa | pha | ba | bha | ma | ya | ra | la | va | ś | ṣ | sa | ha |
Numerals 0 – 9
| ० | १ | २ | ३ | ४ | ५ | ६ | ७ | ८ | ९ |
| 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 |
There are lots of interesting web sites about Sanskrit alphabet, Devanagari transliteration, typing Sanskrit, learning sanskrit. Here are links to some of them and to the world's most comprehensive Sanskrit online dictionary:
-- https://www.anirdesh.com/gujarati/hindi-unicode.php
-- https://wiki2.org/en/ITRANS
-- https://www.webmaster-seo.com/de/unicode/coding?range=221