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A southern hand for Sanskrit.
Also known as: Nandi Nagari
The script used in southern India for Sanskrit manuscripts, related to Devanagari but distinct from it.
Wrote Sanskrit in manuscripts across the Deccan and southern India.
Contexts: Language and transcription, History
Used alongside Grantha for the same language in overlapping regions, so Sanskrit in the south was written in at least two distinct scripts at once and a manuscript's script indicates a scribal tradition rather than a language.
Contexts: Language and transcription, History
Brahmic letters resembling Devanagari with a reduced headstroke and southern letterform conventions, written left to right.