Devanagari is a phonetic script that originated from Ancient Brahmi. It is the foundation of various Indian languages. According to data from the year 2022, the Devanagari Hindi script is spoken by over 342 million people worldwide and ranks third among the top 45 languages. There are approximately 11 vowels and 33 consonants and 10 numerals in the Devanagari script. The Devanagari script has no upper-or lower-case letters and is written from left to right.

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[1] SANJAY PATE, Prof.Dr.Rakesh Ramteke, "Handwritten Devanagari Characters Dataset –(Vowels, Consonants and Numerals) of 44,000 images for Devanagari CAPTCHA Generation and Recognition.", IEEE Dataport, 2022. [Online]. Available: http://dx.doi.org/10.21227/9zpv-3194. Accessed: Jan. 15, 2025.
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SANJAY PATE, Prof.Dr.Rakesh Ramteke. (2022). Handwritten Devanagari Characters Dataset –(Vowels, Consonants and Numerals) of 44,000 images for Devanagari CAPTCHA Generation and Recognition.. IEEE Dataport. http://dx.doi.org/10.21227/9zpv-3194
SANJAY PATE, Prof.Dr.Rakesh Ramteke, 2022. Handwritten Devanagari Characters Dataset –(Vowels, Consonants and Numerals) of 44,000 images for Devanagari CAPTCHA Generation and Recognition.. Available at: http://dx.doi.org/10.21227/9zpv-3194.
SANJAY PATE, Prof.Dr.Rakesh Ramteke. (2022). "Handwritten Devanagari Characters Dataset –(Vowels, Consonants and Numerals) of 44,000 images for Devanagari CAPTCHA Generation and Recognition.." Web.
1. SANJAY PATE, Prof.Dr.Rakesh Ramteke. Handwritten Devanagari Characters Dataset –(Vowels, Consonants and Numerals) of 44,000 images for Devanagari CAPTCHA Generation and Recognition. [Internet]. IEEE Dataport; 2022. Available from : http://dx.doi.org/10.21227/9zpv-3194
SANJAY PATE, Prof.Dr.Rakesh Ramteke. "Handwritten Devanagari Characters Dataset –(Vowels, Consonants and Numerals) of 44,000 images for Devanagari CAPTCHA Generation and Recognition.." doi: 10.21227/9zpv-3194