Nagari

Nagari is a Sanskrit female vrddhi adjective derived from nagara "city", meaning "urban".

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It is used to refer to

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• the Devanagari script, or more precisely to an early form of Devanagari, a variant of the Gupta script appearing in ca. the 8th century.
• those scripts of the Brahmic family that are used to write Indic languages.

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