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This is a phonetic keyboard for writing Sanskrit with Devanāgarī script based on the Harvard-Kyoto input system. Instead of diacritics, capital letters are mainly used to enter characters that do not have a corresponding letter in Latin script. This reduces the number of keystrokes.

The keyboard is mnemonic instead of positional, which means it works on all language keyboards regardless of the placement of the letters.

Common vedic marks are also available. For this a Unicode Devanāgarī Font which supports Vedic signs like Siddhanta designed by Mihail Bayaryn is necessary.
 
To use vedic svaras with Sanskrit 2003 font, you can change the input to normal ‘western’ combining lines for svaras and some special characters only working in Sanskrit 2003. The change is done through pressing [Q] + [1], [2] or [3] (see below!). To get back to Unicode Ḍevanāgarī vedic marks press [Q] + [0].

 

Vowels

 

Simple vowels

Devanāgarī	अ/	आ/ा	इ/ि	ई/ी	उ/ु	ऊ/ु	ऋ/ृ	ॠ/ॄ	ऌ/ॢ	ॡ/ॣ
Input	a	aa or A	I	ii or I	U	uu or U	R	RR	L	LL

 

Diphthongs

Devanāgarī	ए/े	ओ/ो	ऐ/ै	औ/ौ
Input	e	o	ai	au

 

To get the svaramātrāḥ press the [^] (circumflex accent) key and then the vowel key, e.g. [^] + [u] generates ु .

To join two separate vowels, that normally would generate a new single vowel, press [ESC] after the first vowel, e.g. [a] + [ESC] + [a]  would result in aa.

 

Consonants

 

Gutturals/kaṇṭhyāḥ

Devanāgarī	क्	ख्	ग्	घ्	ङ्
Input	k	kh	g	gh	G

Palatals/tālavyāḥ

Devanāgarī	च्	छ्	ज्	झ्	ञ्
Input	c	ch	j	jh	J

Cerebrals/mūrdhanyāḥ

Devanāgarī	ट्	ठ्	ड्	ढ्	ङ्
Input	T	Th	D	Dh	N

Dentals/dantyāḥ

Devanāgarī	त्	थ्	द्	ध्	न्
Input	t	th	d	dh	n

Labials/oṣṭhyāḥ

Devanāgarī	प्	फ्	ब्	भ्	म्
Input	p	ph	b	bh	m

Aproximants/antasthāḥ/haṇ

Devanāgarī	ह्	य्	र्	ल्	व्
Input	h	y	r	l	v

Frictatives

Devanāgarī	 jihvāmūlīyaḥ	श्	ष्	स्	 upadhmānīyaḥ U+F131
Input	HX	Z or sh	S	s	f

Consonantal allophones

Devanāgarī	ः visargaḥ U+0903	ं anusvāraḥ U+0902	ꣲ spacing candrabindhuḥ U+A8F2	ꣳ candrabindhuḥ with virāmaḥ U+A8F3
Input	H	M	MM	MM^

To enforce avoidance of aspirates, press [ ESC ] between the consonant-combinations, e.g. [ k ] + [ ESC ] + [ h ]  would result in क्ह् instead of ख्.

To explicitly keep the virāmaḥ between two consonants to avoid conjunct consonants, press the [ ^ ] (circumflex accent) key in between them, e.g. [ j ] + [ ^ ]+ [ J ] will generate ज्‌ञ्  instead  of ज्ञ्.  (Zero width non joiner / U+200C)

To join two consonants by forcing the first one to drop the right-side vertical line (only possible, if it has one) and protruding parts, press the [ ° ] (degree sign) key in between them, e.g.  [ j ] + [ ° ] + [ J ] will generate ज्‍ञ्.  [ k ] + [ ॰ ] + [ k ] + [ a ] will generate क्‍क instead of क्क. (Zero width joiner / U+200D)

 

Numbers & Punctuation

 

Numbers/saṅkhyāḥ

१	२	३	४	५	६	७	८	९	०
1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	0

 

To get the western numerals without leaving the devanāgarī keyboard, press the number keys and then the [ = ] (equal sign) key. Or first press the [ = ] key and then continue writing western numerals until pressing the [ space ] key.

 

Punctuation & special characters/lekhanacihnāṅkanam & viṣeśa akṣarāḥ

Devanāgarī	। daṇḍa	॥ double daṇḍa	. period	– long hyphen	् virāšmaḥ	ऽ avagrahaḥ	॰ abrevation	√ root/dhātuḥ	ॐ oṃ sign	ळ् vedic cerebral ḻ
Input	.	..	=.	--^	^ circumflex accent	‚ single low quotation mark	° degree sign	V	O	x

Common Unicode Vedic signs (applicable to yajur-vedaḥ)

Devanāgarī	̱ devanāgarī anudātta sign (U+0952)	̍ devanāgarī udātta sign (svarita) (U+0951)	̎ devanāgarī double svarita sign (U+1CDA)	# number sign or hash	" quotation mark	_ low line or underscore	꣣ combining digit 3 / plutiḥ	 non combining visargaḥ U+E003 (non Unicode!)
Input	_	# or "	# # or " "	###	" " " quotation mark	_ _	3 ^	HH

Vedic ‘Latin’ Unicode svaras with short lines

Devanāgarī	̱ combining macron below U+0331	̍ combining vertical line above U+030D	̎ devanāgarī double svarita sign U+030E
Input	_	# or "	# # or " "

The input has to be changed by pressing [Q] + [1]. To get back to Unicode Ḍevanāgarī vedic marks press [Q] + [0].

Vedic ‘Latin’ Sanskrit 2003 svaras with short lines

Devanāgarī	̱ combining macron below U+0331	̍ combining vertical line above U+030D	̎ devanāgarī double svarita sign U+0304
Input	_	# or "	# # or " "

The input has to be changed by pressing [Q] + [2]. To get back to Unicode Ḍevanāgarī vedic marks press [Q] + [0].

Vedic ‘Latin’ svaras for Sanskrit 2003 with long lines

Devanāgarī	̱ combining macron below U+E009	̍ combining vertical line above U+E007	̎ combining double svarita sign  U+E008	̍ vertical line above moving right U+F208	̎ double svarita sign moving right U+F209
Input	_	# or "	# # or " "	# + or " +	# # + or " " +

The input has to be changed by pressing [Q] + [3]. To get back to Unicode Ḍevanāgarī vedic marks press [Q] + [0].

 

Latin character word insertion

 

To get Latin characters without leaving the Sanskrit Devanāgarī keyboard, press the equal sign key [ = ] and then any latin alphabet character keys. After writing a word and pressing the [ space ] key, the keyboard continues writing Devanāgarī script again.