Editing Sanskrit (section)

====Nagari script====
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Many modern era manuscripts are written and available in the Nagari script, whose form is attestable to the 1st millennium&nbsp;CE.{{sfn|Dhanesh Jain|George Cardona|2007|pp=68–70 in Chapter 3 by Salomon}} The Nagari script is the ancestor of [[Devanagari]] (north India), [[Nandinagari]] (south India) and other variants. The Nāgarī script was in regular use by 7th century&nbsp;CE, and had fully evolved into Devanagari and Nandinagari<ref>{{cite report |chapter-url=https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2013/13002-nandinagari.pdf |chapter=Nandanagiri |title=Unicode Standards |year=2013 |id=13002 |access-date=6 August 2018 |archive-date=9 March 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210309054659/https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2013/13002-nandinagari.pdf |url-status=live }}</ref> scripts by about the end of the first millennium of the common era.<ref name=kathleen>{{cite book |first=Kathleen |last=Kuiper |year=2010 |title=The Culture of India |place=New York, NY |publisher=The Rosen Publishing Group |isbn=978-1615301492 |page=83}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |first=Richard |last=Salomon |year=2014 |title=Indian Epigraphy |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=978-0195356663 |pages=33–47}}</ref> The Devanagari script, states Banerji, became more popular for Sanskrit in India since about the 18th century.<ref>{{cite book |author=Sures Chandra Banerji |title=A Companion to Sanskrit Literature |year=1989 |publisher=Motilal Banarsidass |isbn=978-81-208-0063-2 |pages=671–672 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JkOAEdIsdUsC&pg=PA672 |access-date=6 August 2018 |archive-date=29 March 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240329143940/https://books.google.com/books?id=JkOAEdIsdUsC&pg=PA672#v=onepage&q&f=false |url-status=live }}</ref> However, Sanskrit does have special historical connection to the Nagari script as attested by the epigraphical evidence.{{sfn|Dhanesh Jain|George Cardona|2007|pp=70, 75–77 in Chapter 3 by Salomon}}

The Nagari script used for Classical Sanskrit has the fullest repertoire of characters consisting of fourteen vowels and thirty three consonants. For Vedic Sanskrit, it has two more allophonic consonantal characters (the intervocalic ळ ''ḷa'', and ळ्ह ''ḷha'').{{sfn|Dhanesh Jain|George Cardona|2007|pp=75–77 in Chapter 3 by Salomon}} To communicate phonetic accuracy, it also includes several modifiers such as the ''anusvara'' dot and the ''visarga'' double dot, punctuation symbols and others such as the ''halanta'' sign.{{sfn|Dhanesh Jain|George Cardona|2007|pp=75–77 in Chapter 3 by Salomon}}