| Devakshara Charita | |
| Premiere: | 1884 |
| Subject: | Supremacy of Devanagari over Persian |
| Genre: | Theatre |
Devakshara Charita or Devakshar Charitra (Bhojpuri: IAST: Devākṣarcarita; Transl.: The Character of the Divine Alphabet) is a Bhojpuri play by Ramdatta Shukla which was written in 1884,[1] which is also considered as first published drama of Bhojpuri.[2] This play was written to emphasize the supremacy of the Devanagari script and to highlight the drawbacks of Urdu script.[3] [4] It was written and published in 1884 from lite press, Varanasi.