For a more general overview encompassing other Indic scripts, see Ka (Indic)Ka (क) (कवर्ण kavarna) is the first consonant of the Devanagari abugida. It ultimately arose from the Brahmi letter 𑀓 (ka), after having gone through the Gupta letter 13px. Letters that derive from it are the Gujarati letter ક, and the Modi letter �.