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6 unusual facts about Devanāgarī


Daniel Henry Holmes Ingalls, Jr.

While best known for his work on Smalltalk, Ingalls is also known for developing an optical character recognition system for Devanagari writing, which he did at the instigation of his father, Daniel H. H. Ingalls, Sr., a professor of Sanskrit.

Devanagari

It is based on a standard established by the Congress of Orientalists at Athens in 1912.

Fauji

Fauji (Devanagari: फौजी, Nastaliq: فوجی, translation: "Soldier") (1989) was a TV series following the training of an Indian Army commando regiment that aired on India's national channel DD National in 1989.

Ficus racemosa

Both the tree and the flower are referred to as the udumbara (Sanskrit, Pali; Devanagari: उडुम्बर) in Buddhism.

HAL Rudra

The HAL Rudra (Devanagari: रुद्र, "The God Of The Tempest") aka ALH-WSI is an armed version of HAL Dhruv.

Unmaad

Unmaad derived from Devanagari उन्माद (pronounced as Unmād) stands for lunacy, hysteria, frenzy, mania, insanity or craze.


Abhijeet Kosambi

Abhijeet Kosambi (Devanāgarī: अभिजीत कोसंबी)(born in 1982) was the winner of the Sa Re Ga Ma Pa Marathi singing contest and was a finalist on Sa Re Ga Ma Pa Challenge 2007 achieving 11th place with public votes.

Devanagari transliteration

The editio princeps of the Rigveda by Max Müller was in Devanagari, a typographical tour de force at the time.

Farooq Abdullah

Farooq Abdullah (Kashmiri: फ़ारूक़ अब्दुल्लाह (Devanagari), فاروق عبدالله (Nastaleeq)), born 21 October 1937 in Soura, Jammu & Kashmir, India), is the son of Sheikh Abdullah, is a doctor of medicine and has served as chief minister of Jammu and Kashmir on several occasions since 1982.

Marwari language

Marwari is generally written in the Devanagari script, although the Mahajani script is traditionally associated with the language.

Mishrilal Gangwal

Mishrilal Gangwal (Devanāgarī: मिश्रीलाल गंगवाल ) was an Indian politician from the state of Madhya Pradesh.

Navadurga

Navadurga (Devanagari:नवदुर्गा), which literally means nine Goddess Durgas, constitute, according to Hindu mythology, the manifestation of Durga in nine different forms.

Padma Shri

On its obverse, the words "Padma", meaning lotus in Sanskrit and "Shri", in Devanagari, appear above and below a lotus flower.

Raktima Mukerjee

Raktima Mukerjee (Devanāgarī: रक्तिमा मुकेर्जी)(born 1981) was a finalist on Sa Re Ga Ma Pa Challenge 2005 achieving 12th place and subsequently a contestant on Sa Re Ga Ma Pa Ek Main Aur Ek Tu with Vushwanath.

The Sun in culture

In Hinduism, Surya (Devanagari: सूर्य, sūrya) is the chief solar deity, son of Dyaus Pitar.

Wategaon

Social reformer and writer Annabhau Sathe (Devanagari: अण्णाभाऊ साठे) was born in this village in 1920.


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