Nāgarī script

Nāgarī
The word Nāgarī in the Nāgarī script.
Script type	Abugida
Period	c. 980-1010 CE
Languages	Sanskrit Prakrit
Related scripts
Parent systems	Proto-Sinaitic alphabet Phoenician alphabet Aramaic alphabet (debated) Brahmi Gupta Siddhaṃ Nāgarī
Child systems	Devanagari Kaithi Nandinagari Sylheti Nagri Gujarati Modi
Sister systems	Bengali-Assamese script, Odia script, Nepalese

Shravasti Bodhisattva statue with 1st-century Brahmi script (first three lines) and 9th-century Nagari script (last line).

The Nāgarī script or Early Nagari 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. 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.