Use of Devanagari for Sanskrit

[mkapstei at UCHICAGO.EDU]

To what extent was Devanagari viewed as
somehow "transregional" even before the
introduction of printing? If, as I suspect,
it had been, then this may have driven
the decision to favor it in Sanskrit printed
editions. 

Matthew T. Kapstein
Numata Visiting Professor of Buddhist Studies
The University of Chicago Divinity School

Directeur d'études
Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, Paris