梵ぼん字じ

noun

Siddham script; Sanskrit script

Refers specifically to the Siddham script used in Japanese Buddhism to write Sanskrit mantras and seed syllables. Not a general term for any Sanskrit writing system.

• お寺てらで梵ぼん字じが刻きざまれた石せき碑ひを見みた。

  I saw a stone monument carved with Siddham characters at the temple.

• 梵ぼん字じは主おもに密みっ教きょうで用もちいられる。

  Siddham script is mainly used in esoteric Buddhism.