Sanskrit संस्कृतम्
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: vedānta is written by clicking on the keys: va + e + da + ā + na + virama + ta
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 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 = four ़ (nukta): dot below
- Type _ for ॒ (anudatta) and __ for ॑ (udatta)
- Type / or | for । (danda)
- Type ' (apostrophe) for ऽ (avagraha)
- Type O, OM (capitals) for ॐ
- Type x to form a half consonant; example: type sx for स्
- Type xx to prevent conjunct forms; example: type kxxS for क्ष्
Download & install the font Chandas
Copy [Ctrl]+[C] & Paste [Ctrl]+[V]
→ Sanskrit language: dictionary & grammar
→ Nandiganari Sanskrit keyboard (Ancient script used in the South)
→ Uttara Sanskrit Keyboard (Ancient script used in the North)
→ Vedic Sanskrit Keyboard for the Vedic characters
→ Sanskrit Conversion Devanagari-Latin scripts
→ Online test to learn to recognize Devanagari characters
→ Multilingual keyboard: index
