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Over a period of two thousand years, the Devanagari script, used to write Sanskrit and other Indian languages, had evolved. While scholars think the Brahmi script used in the inscriptions of Emperor Asoka (300 BCE) has no certainty of the true origins of writing in India. It is however known that in the ancient scriptures of India, the Devanagari Script evolution has been properly dated. India was governed by various Hindu kings from about 200 CE and information was further disseminated through stone inscriptions. In most cases Sanskrit was written and not Prakrit, thus demonstrating the re-establishment of Hinduism. The credit goes to the West Scholars for raising awareness of rock inscriptions as the most important indicator of development in India.

James Prinsep decrypted Devanagari in 1838 through Brahmi. Prinsep’s methods were somewhat similar to those used to decrypt Hieroglyphics a little earlier. A repeated occurrence of the same syllable is also found. In particular, Georg Buhler established the links between the language and the script from further contributions from other scholars. In Brahmi's monuments and rock edicts, they were either completely unexplored or in very sultry circumstances and India owes them a debt of gratitude for the wealth of information they have gained.

To arrange the letters according to articulatory phonetic principles, Brahmi scripts are known to place the sound and produce it. Devanagari writing uses three non-alphabetic symbols to change a vowel’s quality. Anusvara is written above the vowel with a dot and either nasalizes the vowel or is a consonant articulated at the same place as the next consonant. Anusvara A variant of this symbol, called Candrabindu, has a "moon dot" written above the letter to represent exclusively nasalizing the vowel. The Visarga symbol follows Anusvara; this symbol represents the voiceless breath that follows the vowel. Inherent vowel sounds are the consonant letters. The consonant is fastened to the combination of vowels to mean that the consonant is following a different vowel.

Text is usually horizontally written, from left to right. The Devanagari orthography uses orthographic syllables. Phonetically, Hindi has four forms of plosives, like other Indian languages. There are also several retroflex consonants. All of these are depicted separately in the spelling. The consonant letters used for Hindi are added to the repertoire for further non-native sounds by applying the nuclear character diacritical. The Viral between consonants is usually used to indicate consonant clusters at any location. These results can be seen in the use of semi forms, stackable consonants, and ligated glyphs to express large numbers of connecting forms. A visible Virama is sometimes used to depict full stops.

Devanagari has a special shape as part of a cluster. The initial appears as a hook in the right top of the entire syllable in an orthographic Syllable. It appears as one of two special marks for the other consonants in the non-initial application. All vowel signs are marked and stored following the base character. Individual vowels are available for each vowel sound, including the vowel itself, and all standalone vowel sounds are used to create an effect. The Devanagari Unicode block includes more characters than other indicating scripts, partly because it acts as a pivotal script for other script transliterations.

Some people already admire the Sanskrit language, the mother of the Indo-European language group, and thanks to the world who maintained Devanagiri’s existence and made tremendous efforts to prevent its extinction. Brig. Surendra Mohan says “Sanskrit may have survived through the great efforts of Hastings, Roman Rolland, AL Basham, Emerson and Max Mueller as a bruised and traumatized language, also by many Western visionaries and thousands of India's institutions have worked on it tremendously to keep it intact”.

Hindi is a language that has an immense number of masses whose only mode of written communication is through Devanagari from the Hindi script. Our people have not given their ancient and current literature and have kept its enthralling history alive. Critically, one must read Munshi Prem Chand, the Nirala, and numerous other Hindi prose and poem writers, as well as the Noble Awards winner’s novels of Hindi writers, Hindi Translators, and literature to appreciate the script and give it the identity it deserves

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