National Library at Calcutta romanization

The National Library at Calcutta romanization is the most widely used in dictionaries and grammars of Indic languages. The tables below mostly use Devanagari but include letters from Kannada, Tamil and Bengali to illustrate the transliteration of non-Devanagari characters.

अ	आ	इ	ई	उ	ऊ	ऋ	ಎ	ए	ऐ
a	ā	i	ī	u	ū	ṛ	e	ē	ai

ಒ	ओ	औ	अं	अः
o	ō	au	aṃ	aḥ

क	ख	ग	घ	ङ	च	छ	ज	झ	ञ
ka	kha	ga	gha	ṅa	ca	cha	ja	jha	ña

ट	ठ	ड	ढ	ण	त	थ	द	ध	न
ṭa	ṭha	ḍa	ḍha	ṇa	ta	tha	da	dha	na

प	फ	ब	भ	म	য	ழ	ಳ	ಱ	ன
pa	pha	ba	bha	ma	ẏa	la	ḷa	ra	na

य	र	ल	व	श	ष	स	ह
ya	ra	la	va	śa	ṣa	sa	ha