城文（Nāgarī）又稱城體，在古印度於大約公元8世紀作為笈多文的東部變體出現（而夏拉達文是西部變體）。它分支出多種文字，比如天城文、孟加拉文、喜城文和藏文，並影響了夏拉達文派生的古木基文的發展。城文直接演變為天城文，天城文是對城文的改良而成，改良後的城文為突出其神聖加多了個梵文「天」字（देव/deva）成為天城文。[1]
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