Dear Tim,

The good news is that you won't have to retype anything, because the more recent XeLaTeX system can be set up to read Velthuis transliteration and turn it into lovely Devanagari.  Here's a minimum working example.  TeX does this in one pass, and the devnag processor is not required.

About the Mac, I'm completely in the dark.  Sorry!  But TeXlive (the main distribution from TUG) does say it works on MacOS.  (click macOS),

Dominik



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Professor Dominik Wujastyk
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Singhmar Chair in Classical Indian Society and Polity
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University of Alberta, Canada
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