nagari
Speech parts
1. nagari - Noun
2. Nagari - Proper noun
Meaning
a syllabic script used in writing Sanskrit and Hindi
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The ancient Nagari script for Sanskrit had two additional consonantal characters.
Nagari has been the primus inter pares of the Indic scripts.
He sent his ambassador Tonmi Sambota to India to acquire alphabet and writing methods; returning with Sanskrit Nagari script from Kashmir corresponding to 24 Tibetan sounds and innovating new symbols for 6 local sounds.
The Gupta wrote it as a curved line, and the Nagari sometimes added a small circle on the left (rotated a quarter turn to the right, this 9-look-alike became the present day numeral 1 in the Gujarati and Punjabi scripts).