Handwriting Recognition Can Be Viewed In Two Forms As Offline and Online Handwriting Recognition. This Study Has Been Done For Online Handwriting Recognition. the Present Work Is a Step For Online Handwriting Recognition In Indic Scripts. This Paper Recognizes Online Handwritten Devanagari Strokes Using a Statistical Recognition Technique Support Vector Machines. the Results Have Been Achieved As 93.27, 89.12 and 99.08 For Upper, Middle and Lower Zone Devanagari Classes, Respectively.