Devanagari Numerology
Devanagari is the script of Sanskrit, and Sanskrit names nine paths by which the soul draws near the divine. Render your name in the aksharamala and discover the form of devotion that governs its root.
“श्रवणं कीर्तनं विष्णोः स्मरणं — hearing, chanting, and remembering of Vishnu. — Bhagavata Purana 7.5.23.”
Enter a name to read its Devanagari value.
The Aksharamala
Each Latin letter with the Devanagari letter shown for it and the value it counts on the 1–9 wheel. A Devanagari letter that stands in for two Latin letters appears once for each.
A · a
1
B · ba
2
C · ca
3
D · da
4
E · e
5
F · pha
6
G · ga
7
H · ha
8
I · i
9
J · ja
1
K · ka
2
L · la
3
M · ma
4
N · na
5
O · o
6
P · pa
7
Q · ka
8
R · ra
9
S · sa
1
T · ta
2
U · u
3
V · va
4
W · va
5
X · ksha
6
Y · ya
7
Z · ja
8
The Navavidha Bhakti
What the Devanagari calculator adds up, and what it leaves out
Devanagari is the script in which Hindi, Marathi and Nepali are written today, and the one in which Sanskrit is most often printed. The letters are there for display; the arithmetic runs on the Latin spelling you type. Each Roman letter is matched by sound to a Devanagari character, M to म, R to र, S to स, and given a number by its place in the English alphabet: A, J and S count 1, I and R count 9, and the cycle repeats. There is no birth date field. Accents and hyphens are smoothed away, and a name typed in Devanagari itself is not counted; the page asks you to type the Roman spelling instead.
The breakdown strip for Maria Silva shows ten cells: म 4, अ 1, र 9, इ 9, अ 1, स 1, इ 9, ल 3, व 4, अ 1. Their sum, 42, is the Devanagari Value, and adding its digits gives the Reduced figure, 6, which the page links to Vandana, labelled Prostration and Reverence. The strip is a letter-for-letter substitution, not a spelling. A Hindi writer would set the name down as मारिया सिल्वा, with vowel signs joined to consonants and no free-standing अ. Entered without the first name, Silva lands on 9 instead, Atmanivedana, so the form of the name you choose shapes the outcome.
The nine labels come from one verse of the Bhagavata Purana (7.5.23), in which Prahlada lists the ways of devotion to Vishnu: hearing, chanting, remembering, serving his feet, worship, bowing, servitude, friendship and offering the whole self. The page numbers them 1 to 9 in the verse's order. They name practices rather than temperaments, so a 6 works better as a question than a description: where does respect, for a person, a craft or an idea, already have a place in your week?
Be clear about provenance. The 1 to 9 cycle is a modern Western convention, and pairing its digits with Prahlada's verse is this site's own construction. Sanskrit does have a genuine letter-number code, katapayadi, covered in the companion guide, but this page does not use it. Under katapayadi म stands for 5 and र for 2, and the digits build a number place by place rather than being added. The Latin basis also produces quirks: K and Q both appear as क yet count 2 and 8, and V and W share व at 4 and 5.
Used this way, the calculator offers a consistent method for sitting with one spelling of a name alongside an old devotional vocabulary, but it cannot tell you who you are, choose a name for you or say what lies ahead.
This result is the numerology tradition's symbolic interpretation — an invitation to reflect, not a scientific prediction or a fact about you.
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