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For this, in the literature, convolutional neural network (CNN) has been a popular approach to extract features from the image data. However, state-of-the-art works do not provide a generic CNN model for character recognition, Devanagari script, for instance. Therefore, in this work, we first study several different CNN models on publicly available handwritten Devanagari characters and numerals datasets. This means that our study is primarily focusing on comparative study by taking trainable parameters, training time and memory consumption into account. 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