Abstract: Sanskrit (Devanagari), an alphabetic script, is used by over 500 million people all over the world. Recognition of Sanskrit (Devanagari) handwritten scripts is complicated compared to other language scripts. However, many researchers have provided real-time solutions for offline Sanskrit character recognition also. Offline Sanskrit handwritten documents recognition still offers many motivating challenges to researchers. Current research offers many solutions on Sanskrit (Devanagari) handwritten documents recognition even then reasonable accuracy and performance has not been achieved. This paper analyses the various approaches and challenges concerning offline Sanskrit (Devanagari) handwritten character recognition.