Sanskrit संस्कृतम्
Note
Click on the virāma (diacritic in the center) to delete the inherent vowel a: it's necessary to add the virāma between two consonants.
example: vedānta is written by clicking on the keys: va + e + da + ā + na + virāma + ta
How to use
To type directly with the computer keyboard:
- Use the capital to type the letters subscribed with a dot below: T, Th, D, Dh, N, L, S
- Type G or ng for ṅ & J for ñ
- Type z or ç or sh for ś
- Type aa, ii, uu (or A, I, U) for the long vowels ā, ī, ū
- Type -r and -ri for ri and rī
- Type -l and -li for li and lī
- Type M for ं (anusvara) & MM for ँ (candra bindu)
- Type H for ः (visarga)
- Type / or | for । (danda)
- Type ' (apostrophe) for ऽ (avagraha)
- Type two dots .. for the abbreviation sign ॰
- Type O, OM (capitals) for ॐ
- Type x (unicode 200D, zwj, zero width joiner) to form a half consonant; example: type sx for स्
- Type xx (unicode 200C, zwnj, zero width non-joiner) to prevent conjunct forms; example: type kxxS for क्ष्
Download & install the font Tiro Devanagari Sanskrit
Copy [Ctrl]+[C] & Paste [Ctrl]+[V]
→ Sanskrit language: dictionary & grammar
→ Uttara Sanskrit Keyboard: Northern variant used in Calcutta editions
→ Vedic Sanskrit Keyboard for the Vedic characters
→ Latin Sanskrit Keyboard
→ Sanskrit Conversion Devanāgarī-Latin scripts
→ Online test to master Devanāgarī character recognition
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