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Nagri (other)
Nagri may refer to: * Nagri, Chhattishgarh, a town in Chhattishgarh, India * Nagri, Jharkhand, a village in Jharkhand, India * Nagri block, an administrative unit of Ranchi district in Jharkhand, India * a variant of the name "Nagari", which may refer to several writing systems: **Nāgarī script, a script used in India during the first millennium **Devanagari, a script used since the late first millennium and currently in widespread use for the languages of northern India **Nandinagari, a script used in southern India from the late first millennium until the 19th century **Sylheti Nagari, a script used in the Sylhet area of Bangladesh and nearby parts of India See also * Nagari (other) * Nagri (other) {{Disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nagri, Chhattishgarh
Nagri is a town and ''nagar panchayat'' in the Dhamtari district of the Indian States and territories of India, state of Chhattisgarh. It is located 64 kilometers from the district headquarters, Dhamtari, and 145 kilometres from the state capital of Chhattisgarh, Raipur. Geography Mukundpur, Malhari, Sihawa, Bhitarras, and Goregaon villages are nearby. Nagri is surrounded by Narharpur Tehsil to its west, Gariyaband Tehsil to its north, Baderajpur Tehsil to its south and Mainpur Tehsil to its east. Nearby cities include Kanker, Chhattisgarh, Kanker, Dhamtari, Gobranawapara, Gariaband district, Gariyaband and Umerkote, Umarkote. Nagri is covered by jungles and mountains and the Mahnadi river, sometimes called the 'lifeline of Chhattisgarh', originates from Sihawa Hills, 8 kilometres from Nagri. Demographics As of the 2011 India census, Nagri had a population of 13,308. Males and females each constitute 50%. Nagri had an average literacy rate of 67%, higher than the national ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nagri, Jharkhand
Nagri is a village in the Nagri CD block in the Ranchi Sadar subdivision of the Ranchi district in the Indian state of Jharkhand. Geography Location Nagri is located at . Area overview The map alongside shows a part of the Ranchi plateau, most of it at an average elevation of 2,140 feet above sea level. Only a small part in the north-eastern part of the district is the lower Ranchi plateau, spread over Silli, Rahe, Sonahatu and Tamar CD blocks, at an elevation of 500 to 1,000 feet above sea level. There is a 16 km long ridge south-west of Ranchi. There are isolated hills in the central plateau. The principal river of the district, the Subarnarekha, originates near Ratu ''Ratu'' () is an Austronesian title used by male Fijians of chiefly rank. An equivalent title, ''adi'' (pronounced ), is used by females of chiefly rank. In the Malay language, the title ''ratu'' is also the traditional honorific title to r ..., flows in an e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nagri Block
Nagri is a CD block that forms an administrative division in the Ranchi Sadar subdivision of Ranchi district, in the Indian state of Jharkhand. Maoist activities, dissent Jharkhand is one of the states affected by Maoist activities. , Ranchi district was among the highly affected districts in the state. "Areas of Tamar, Bundu, Sonahatu, Angarha, Sikidari Police Stations and Rahe O.P. have been widely affected by activities of CPI (Maoist) group till the end of year 2009. At the end of year 2010, The activities of CPI (Maoist) group has been minimized up to almost zero level." According to the Jharkhand Police spokesperson and Inspector General (IG) Saket Singh, as reported on 8 December 2020, "The activities of CPI-Maoist are now confined to small pockets in the state because of our efforts." Civilian fatalities, a key index of security in a region, declined from 20 in 2019, to 8 in 2020, the lowest in this category since 2000, when there were 13 such fatalities. The 28 total fa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nāgarī Script
The Nāgarī script is the ancestor of Devanagari, Nandinagari and other variants, and was first used to write Prakrit and Sanskrit. The term is sometimes used as a synonym for Devanagari script.Kathleen Kuiper (2010), The Culture of India, New York: The Rosen Publishing Group, , page 83George Cardona and Danesh Jain (2003), The Indo-Aryan Languages, Routledge, , pages 68-69 It came in vogue during the first millennium CE. The Nāgarī script has roots in the ancient Brahmi script family. The Nāgarī script was in regular use by 7th century CE, and had fully evolved into Devanagari and Nandinagari scripts by about the end of first millennium of the common era. Etymology Nagari is a vṛddhi derivation from नगर (), which means city. Origins The Nāgarī script appeared in ancient India as a central-eastern variant of the Gupta script (whereas Śāradā was the western variety and Siddham was the far eastern variety). In turn it branched off into several scripts, suc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Devanagari
Devanagari ( ; in script: , , ) is an Indic script used in the Indian subcontinent. It is a left-to-right abugida (a type of segmental Writing systems#Segmental systems: alphabets, writing system), based on the ancient ''Brāhmī script, Brāhmī'' script. It is one of the official scripts of India, official scripts of India and Nepal. It was developed in, and was in regular use by, the 8th century CE. It had achieved its modern form by 1000 CE. The Devanāgarī script, composed of 48 primary characters, including 14 vowels and 34 consonants, is the fourth most widely List of writing systems by adoption, adopted writing system in the world, being used for over 120 languages, the most popular of which is Hindi (). The orthography of this script reflects the pronunciation of the language. Unlike the Latin alphabet, the script has no concept of letter case, meaning the script is a unicase, unicameral alphabet. It is written from left to right, has a strong preference for symmetri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nandinagari
Nandināgarī is a Brahmic script derived from the Nāgarī script which appeared in the 7th century AD.George Cardona and Danesh Jain (2003), The Indo-Aryan Languages, Routledge, , page 75 This script and its variants were used in the central Deccan region and south India, and an abundance of Sanskrit manuscripts in Nandināgarī have been discovered but remain untransliterated.Reinhold Grünendahl (2001), South Indian Scripts in Sanskrit Manuscripts and Prints, Otto Harrassowitz Verlag, , pages xxii, 201-210P. Visalakshy (2003), The Fundamentals of Manuscriptology, Dravidian Linguistics Association, , pages 55-62 Some of the discovered manuscripts of Madhvacharya of the Dvaita Vedanta school of Hinduism are in Nandināgarī script. It is a sister script to Devanāgarī, which is common in other parts of India.Pandey, Anshuman. (2013)''Preliminary Proposal to Encode Nandinagari in ISO/IEC 10646''./ref> Etymology Nāgarī comes from (), which means city. There have been Na ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sylheti Nagari
Sylheti Nagri or Sylheti Nāgarī (, , ), known in classical manuscripts as Sylhet Nagri () as well as by many other names, is an Indic script. The script was historically used in the regions of Bengal and Assam, that were east of the Padma. It was primarily used in the eastern part of the Sylhet region, to document poetry known as '' puthis''. In the course of the twentieth century, it has lost much ground to the standardised Eastern Nagari script. Printing presses for Sylheti Nagri existed as late as into the 1970s, and in the 2000s, the script was added to the Unicode Basic Multilingual Plane ( BMP). (See Syloti Nagri (Unicode block) for more details.) Historically the script was transcribed in Middle Bengali, though having similar characteristics to the more popular Dobhashi literary dialect, it was distinguished for its phonological influence from Sylheti. It is also claimed that the orthography of the script equates with Sylheti, reflecting the phonetic and grammati ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nagari (other)
Nagari may refer to: Writing systems * Nāgarī script, a script used in India during the first millennium * Devanagari, a script used since the late first millennium and currently in widespread use for the languages of northern India * Nandinagari, a script used in southern India from the late first millennium until the 19th century * Sylheti Nagari, a script used in the Sylhet area of Bangladesh and nearby parts of India Places * Nagari, Andhra Pradesh, a town in India ** Nagari Assembly constituency * Nagari, Rajasthan, a village in India Other uses * Nagari (surname) * Nagari (settlement), an administrative unit in parts of Sumatra, Indonesia * Bolwell Nagari, a sports car produced in Australia by Bolwell * Nagari, a clan of the Gujjar / Gurjar ethnic group See also * Nagar (other) Nagar (-nagar) can refer to: Places Bangladesh *Nagar, Rajshahi Division, village * Nagar, Barisal Division, settlement India *Nagar taluka, Ahmednagar, Maharashtra State *Nag ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
