Note
Click on the virama, called halant in Sanskrit (diacritic in the center) to delete the inherent vowel a: the virama is needed between two consonants.
example: for vedānta, type: v + e + d + a + n + virama + t + a
Instructions
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 sh or ç 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 O, OM (capitals) for ॐ
- Type x to make a half consonnant; example: type sx for स्
- Type xx to prevent conjunct forms; example: type kxxS for क्ष्
How to type with this Online Sanskrit Devanagari Keyboard
Using the online Sanskrit Devanagari keyboard above, simply click on the letters, alphabets or symbols to enter them into the text box. After that you can click the Copy button or press Ctrl+C to copy. Or use the Save button to save the typed characters as a text file.
To directly type these alphabets in the above text box with your computer keyboard, obey the following instructions.
- This Online keyboard above has some characters attached to some of the Sanskrit Devanagari character keys.
- In the text box, simply type these characters that are indicated on top of the keys to get the corresponding Sanskrit Devanagari alphabet, letter or symbol.
Once you are done typing your desired Sanskrit Devanagari letters, either use Ctrl+C to copy or use the copy or save buttons to copy or save the typed characters respectively.
