Your Name in Devanagari
Type a name or word below in Latin letters and watch it appear in Devanagari — the script the Cologne dictionaries are built on — along with its IAST and SLP1 transliterations. No Sanskrit knowledge required.
Use the small diacritic buttons to add precision (e.g. ā for a long vowel, ṣ
for a retroflex sibilant) — most Western names convert reasonably well with
plain letters alone, since short vowels and unaspirated consonants need no
diacritics at all.
The conversion uses the same sanskrit-util
transcoder that powers the dictionary pages on this site and the wider CDSL
toolchain — not a one-off approximation, so what you see here is the real
encoding used throughout the project.
Seeing your name is the first step. The Quick Start and Encoding & Transliteration guides pick up from here if you'd like to learn to read and write more Sanskrit yourself.