This package has been developed with one goal in mind—to be able to handle transliterated documents for as many indian languages as possible. Many indian languages follow the concept of consonants, vowels, consonant-vowel pairs, ligatures, etc. (Pardon the non-technical terminology, my knowledge of indian alphabets is quite lacking!) This package has been developed to be flexible enough to allow all such languages to be used. In fact, for certain languages, such as hindi/gujarati, one could write a single transliterated document, and just change the keywords to produce text in a different language!
I am still looking for freeware fonts for these languages: bengali, gujarati, kannada, telugu, malayalam, or any other indian language. If you know of any source of freeware or public-domain indian language fonts for TEX or PostScript, please let me know (email: avinash@contex.com).