Hyphenation is not often seen in devanagari texts. When it occurs, it is
nearly always between parts of a compound word. In versions of TEX before
version 3.0 it is not possible
to use two seperate hyphenation tables within one text file. For
these reasons hyphenation is
not applied to DN text. This means that TEX will have more problems finding
suitable line-breakpoints in DN text than in `normal' text. Therefore, when
there are large pieces of DN text, it is advised to make the line-width not
too small. Because hyphenation is turned off, things like `discretionary
hyphens' (\-) and \hyphenation-commands are useless
with DN text.