Frans Velthuis' preprocessor for Devanagari text, and fonts and
macros to use when typesetting the processed text. The macros
provide features that support Sanskrit, Hindi, Marathi, Nepali,
and other languages typically printed in the Devanagari script.
The package provides fonts, in both Metafont and Type 1
formats. Users of modern TeX distributions may care to try the
XeTeX based package, which is far preferable for users who can
type Unicode text.
