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.

The authors are Zdeněk Wagner, Anshuman Pandey, Frans Velthuis, Steven T. Smith, Dominik Wujastyk and François Patte.