Sanskritography is the study of the glyphs and their etymological origin along with their meaning.It deals with the true origin of the alphabets and compares it with other words and alphabets.

Mantrakshar particles are the fundamental radicals used while writing the characters it can be written in a reduced form or in its original form.

We can use the analogy of writing the vowels in hindi , so we have main vowels A(अ) ,i (इ) , u(उ) and when writing them we don't actually use the original vowels but simply use their indicators or so called reduced forms , Just as in case of K (क ) + i (इ ) = कि (ki) and similarly in mantrakshar when we use eye + water = tears /cry

character 1	character 2	combined character
K(क)	i (इ)	ki (कि )

RADICAL	REDUCED FORM	MANTRAKSHAR
WATER
FIRE
AIR
LIGHT
SOUND
PAIN
LEGS
ARM
LESS
MORE
LID
NORMAL

Mantrakshar strokes are the calligraphic strokes needed to write the Mantrakshar characters in regular script used in calligraphy.These strokes are the classified set of line patterns that may be arranged and combined to form character.

The study and classification of Mantrakshar strokes is used for:

• understanding mantrakshar character calligraphy – the correct method of writing, shape formation and stroke order required for character legibility;
• understanding stroke changes according to the style that is in use;
• defining stroke naming and counting conventions;
• identifying fundamental components of Mantrakshar radicals; and
• their use in computing.

These are the most basic strokes used for creating almost any character in mantrakshar.These strokes are also used to create the mantrakshar particles.These basic strokes are written in a very small quantity just to signify the presence so they are usually considered to be equivalent to dots because you cannot differentiate these strokes with each other.Their writing order is given below in the picture as horizontal stroke is written from left to right , vertical stroke is written from top to bottom , left slash is written as a throw away towards left side, right slash is written some what slowly and stress is given so it is a press down stroke toward the right lower corner.

These are the compound pair of strokes which can be written without lifting the pen.These strokes are also used frequently in constructing the mantrakshar characters.

sitting posture 1	sitting posture 2

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A compound stroke (also called a complex stroke) is produced when two or more basic strokes are combined in a single stroke written without lifting the writing instrument from the writing surface.Below is the list of the complex triple stroke formed by the combination of basic 3 strokes.These strokes are used in forming a huge number of mantrakshar characters as well as forming the devanagri alphabets.

Another form of writing is cursive which is formed by combining the cursive forms.The sanskrit or devanagri alphabets use straight strokes as well as cursive strokes which are written in a combined form,they combine the cursive forms with the simple basic strokes like vertical bar , horizontal bar and then the full alphabet is formed.below is a simple table showing the alphabets of sanskrit formed by combining the cursive with the straight forms.

3 STROKES	reverse S
3 STROKES	S form

This category contains 4 strokes which can be written without lifting the pen or some strokes have to be written by lifting the pen.

E form of strokes have to be written by lifting the pen once.

FOUR STROKES	E forms	द्द	घ	छ	ध	द्य
FOUR STROKES	reverse E	उ	अ	ऊ
FOUR STROKES
4 strokes enclosed

These strokes contain five basic strokes and they can be used to write other characters.they can also be used to construct sanskrit alphabets.