Ardhanagari (also: Bhatachhari), an abugida, was a mixture of Nagari, used in Ujjain and Malwa, and Siddha Matrika or the Siddham script, a variant of the Sharada script used in Kashmir. An abugida or alphasyllabary is a writing system composed of signs (graphemes) denoting consonants with an inherent following vowel, which are consistently modified to indicate other vowels (or, in some cases, the lack of a vowel). ... The Brahmic family is a family of abugidas used in South Asia and Southeast Asia. ... Ujjain (also known as Ujain, Ujjayini, Avanti) is an ancient city of central India, in the Malwa region of Madhya Pradesh, on the right bank of the Kshipra River. ... Malwa (Malvi: माळवा) is a region of western India, lying in the western part of Madhya Pradesh state. ... Siddham (Sanskrit, accomplished or perfectevd) — referred to in Japanese as bonji (梵字) — is the name of a North Indian script used for writing Sanskrit. ... Kashmiri Shaivaite manuscript (17th or 18th century) The Sharada script is an abugida writing system of the Brahmic family of scripts, developed from ca. ... This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. ...