Exercise
Learning a script, that too Devanagari,
may appear to be a formidable task. Scripts of Indian languages are not
easy to master quickly but once the underlying principle of the aksharas is
understood, reading becomes very easy. Unlike the letters of the Roman
alphabet where there is no clustering of the letters in the alphabetic
sequence such as labials etc., the aksharas of Sanskrit are extremely well
organized into clearly discernible groups. The student is advised to remember
the sequence of aksharas in each group.
Some of the students may be interested
in finding out if a web page could support data entry in Davanagari so
that some interaction is provided. This is indeed possible on account of
the excellent Multilingual software developed by students of the Indian
Institute of Technology, Madras. The link provided below is meant for this
purpose.
Data entry in Devanagari
Given below are some exercises at identifying
the basic aksharas of Sanskrit. You should be able to read the same after you have completed this lesson.