8. The system of claim 7 , wherein the Devanagari state machine comprises eight states including: initial, matra, vowel, vowel modifier, halant, nukta, consonant, and invalid.
8. The system of claim 7 , wherein the Devanagari state machine comprises eight states including: initial, matra, vowel, vowel modifier, halant, nukta, consonant, and invalid. 9. The system of claim 8 , wherein the current state of a first character of a word in the Devanagari text is the initial state.