Hari OM
'Freedays' are the 'gather our thoughts' days; Q&As; a general review of the week so far…
To all who subscribe to the Buddhist philosophy, greetings and blessings to you for Parinirvana Day.
Just a technical note; on having to read from an android tablet recently, it was discovered that it does not display Devanagari script, so a complete gobbledegook was present in place of the neatly typed shlokas! It seems that reading on any device which does not have Devanagari fonts installed will result in this rather alarming mess.
Tablets are rarely used around here. No such thing as 'smartphone' either. It is also possible that even on laptops or desktops unless you have installed Devanagari fonts, you may not have been able to read those (or at least enjoyed their picturesque beauty!) Sorry it has taken this long to realise this possibility. Most of you are probably anyway reading the transliteration and translation only, however, if you do not already have fonts installed, might I suggest you do? It will just look so much prettier!
Not sure quite how this would be done on Android (or other) devices… but if you read regularly on hand-held rather than lap/desktop hardware, then it might pay to follow up on that too.
Or perhaps it doesn't matter to you. Which is fine too! In case it does, the font most often used here is "Sanskrit 99c" but the 99 only version will also suffice. "Mangal" also occasionally used.
