Conjuncts/Ligatures in Devanagari

Learning Devanagari can be a litle daunting to anyone only familiar with Roman scripts.

Once you have the vowels and consonants down, you then have the joy of discovering the vowel modifiers for the consonants. Then, once you think you've mastered it, you run headlong into the consonant conjuncts...

To make matters worse, it seems that every book you pick up has a slightly different idea of how conjucts should appear.

In order to simplify looking up an unfamiliar conjunct, I aggregated a selection of tables from public domain sources with the notion of perhaps cross-indexing them. I...didn't quite get that far! Here are the tables in facimile:

de Harlez, C, "Grammaire Pratique de la Langue Sanscrite", Paris, 1878.
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Monier Williams, “Practical Grammar of the Sanskrit Language", 4th Ed., Oxford, 1877.
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MacDonell, "A Sanskrit Grammar for Students", 3rd Ed., 1927. [png]

Mueller, M. (ed. MacDonell), "A Sanskrit Grammar for Beginners", London, 1886. [png]

Wilson, H.H., “An Introduction to the Grammar of the Sanskrit Language“, 2nd Ed., London, 1847. [png]

Kielhorn, F., "A Grammar of the Sanskrit Language", 2nd Ed., Bombay, 1880. [png]

Stenzler, A.F., "Elementarbuch der Sanskrit-Sprache“, 9th Ed., 1915. [png]

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