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How this search works

The index is built on IAST transliteration rather than on Devanagari, and that is a deliberate decision with a real cost, so it is worth stating plainly.

The static search engine this site uses strips combining marks from Indic scripts before indexing. That means क, का, कि, की, कु, के and को all collapse into a single token. On a corpus of more than eleven thousand verses, a Devanagari index would return a bare consonant skeleton and almost no useful precision. Indexing the transliteration keeps vowel length and distinguishes those forms properly.

So anything typed in Devanagari is converted to transliteration before it reaches the index, and the conversion is shown to you when it happens. Diacritics are folded, which is a small bonus: you can typertvij and find ṛtvij without reaching for a special keyboard.

Searching by citation works too. Type 10.129 to reach the Nāsadīya Sūkta, or go straight to /rv/10.129.1.