Nagarin.adj.

1771 Philos. Trans. 1770 (Royal Soc.) 60 448 Their language is the Nagri..more ancient than even the Shanscritta.

1776 Trial Maha Rajah Nundocomar for Forgery 22/2 Sometimes he wrote the bonds..in Nagree, sometimes in Bengal.

1839 P. M. Taylor Confessions of Thug I. xii. 280 ‘I can make out the figures if they are not written in Persian.’ ‘Ah, no,’ said I, ‘they are Nagree or Guzerattee.’

1872 M. Monier-Williams Sanskrit Dict. Pref. 18 (note) The present form of Nāgarī is thought to be little older than the tenth or eleventh century.

1886 J. Eggeling in Encycl. Brit. XXI. 272/2 The character..is the so-called Devanâgarî, or nâgarî (‘town-script’) of the gods.

1948 D. Diringer Alphabet 361 The South-Indian form of Nagari is nowadays known as Nandinagari.

1978 Jrnl. Asian Stud. 37 574/1 This would be a remarkably modern and accurate rendering of the name in Nagari.

2000 Turkish Daily News (Nexis) 26 Jan. The languages are written in eleven major writing style: Perso-Arabic, Nagari, [etc.]

1776 Trial Maha Rajah Nundocomar for Forgery 9/1 I have likewise..a Nagree letter of attorney.

1786 W. Jones Let. 27 Feb. (1970) 694 The characters..are little more than the nagari letters inverted and rounded.

1846 J. T. Thompson Dict. Hindee & Eng. Pref. p. iii A delay in preparing the Naguree types prevented its publication.

1879 A. C. Burnell Elem. S. Indian Palæogr. (ed. 2) 52 The South-Indian form of the Nāgarī character..the Nandinagarī is directly derived from the N. Indian Devanāgarī of about the eleventh century.

1891 Jrnl. Asiatic Soc. Bengal 59 i. 81 Two very distinct classes of the ancient Nágari alphabet.

1900 Dict. National Biogr. LXI. 260/1 He resided for a time..at Hawkhurst, where he commenced the formation of a fount of Nagari type for printing Sanskrit.

1936 J. Nehru Autobiogr. lv. 451 Such invitations are always either in the nāgri or the Persian script.

1947 R. O. Winstedt Malays 139 The Malays..borrowed..the nagari script brought in the 8th century by the Palas from Bengal.

1997 J. Williams Money v. 123/1 The dramma of the Pratihara kings of central northern India..adds in Nagari script the honorific name of the Hindu god Vishnu, ‘Sri Vigraha’.