Devakshara Charita or Devakshar Charitra (

Bhojpuri Bhojpuri (;Bhojpuri entry, Oxford Dictionaries
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: 𑂠𑂵𑂫𑂰𑂍𑂹𑂓𑂩 𑂒𑂩𑂱𑂞;

IAST The International Alphabet of Sanskrit Transliteration (IAST) is a transliteration scheme that allows the lossless romanisation of Indic scripts as employed by Sanskrit and related Indic languages. It is based on a scheme that emerged during ...

: Devākṣarcarita; Transl.: ''The Character of the Divine Alphabet'') is a Bhojpuri play by Ramdatta Shukla which was written in 1884, which is also considered as first published drama of Bhojpuri. This play was written to emphasize the supremacy of the

Devanagari Devanagari ( ; , , Sanskrit pronunciation: ), also called Nagari (),Kathleen Kuiper (2010), The Culture of India, New York: The Rosen Publishing Group, , page 83 is a left-to-right abugida (a type of segmental Writing systems#Segmental syste ...

script and to highlight the drawbacks of

Urdu script The Urdu alphabet (), is the right-to-left alphabet used for Urdu. It is a modification of the Persian script, which is itself a derivative of the Arabic script. The Urdu alphabet has up to 39 or 40 distinct letters with no distinct letter c ...

. It was written and published in 1884 from lite press, Varanasi.

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