One of my hobbies, of late, is putting together greeting cards, using LaTeX.  I enjoy it immensely, as each card provides a lot of opportunities to learn new things about formatting documents in LaTeX.  My last card was a Teachers' day card, for a very special teacher, and for that card, I wanted to include a verse in Sanskrit.  I'd heard about the devanagari package for LaTeX, but had never used it.  I Googled it up and came up with this blog post which was most helpful. In that blog post, the author explains how one can install the devanagari package and use it, on both Windows and Linux platforms.  In the same post, I also found the link to a wonderful manual on using the devanagari package with TeX.  Using that, I was able to get off to a great start on my own greeting card! Here's something I put together, to explain how it's done.