1.天城文书
1.the alphabet used for writing some Indian languages such as Hindi and Sanskrit
1.The words on Dao seem to be Tibetan letter and Devanagari.
刀上的文字似乎是藏文和梵文很象的。
2.along with English it is the official language of India; usually written in Devanagari script.
和英语一块儿都是印度的官方语言;
3.It's not 'inscription', is it? Decorating Devanagari. This kind of Dao as far as I know mostly is from Shanxi.
这不能算是“铭文”吧?装饰性梵文。就我所见到的几把这类刀还是出自山西一路较多。
4.Information and documentation - Transliteration of Devanagari and related Indic scripts into Latin characters
信息和文献工作.Devanagari和相关印度语言手写体到拉丁字符的译音