InDesign and Hindi

I am trying to type Hindi text into InDesign, and it is behaving differently than when I type the same text into TextEdit.
Using the Devanagari QWERTY keyboard, I type Alt-S, Shift-I. In TextEdit, I get the following (hopefully this will come through in the posting)
श्री
Typing the same into InDesign, I get this:
श््री
Futhermore, I cannot even paste the correctly interpreted characters from TextEdit into InDesign - the latter text always replaces the former text.
The problem seems to be compound characters.
How can I properly enter Hindi (Devanagari) text into InDesign?

Well, that wasn't too hard, but it was a touch more expensive than I'd hoped.
I've installed the trial version of IndicPLus, and it only took me a few minutes to figure out how to use it (the manual is vague from a newcomers perspective..you have to create a new paragraph style whilst the IndicPlus paragraph editor is set).
However, the Devanagari font I've been using that looks great in Pages looks a complete dogs dinner in IndicPlus/InDesign. Diacriticals are scatter-gunned over the line, and some letter combinations are rendered completely different from Pages (and completely wrong).
Noting that one of the samples shown on the IndicPlus website uses Arial Unicode, I took a chance on buying that font (another $100), and fortunately, it now works a charm!
Less fortunately, Arial Unicode doesn't seem to be available in Bold or Semibold, which would have been nice, but I can live without it.
Edit:
Also, interestingly, Arial Unicode MS does't show up in the list of available fonts in IDesign, which was worrying for a moment. However, if I start typing the name in the font name box, it shows up as an auto-complete option! This is after restarting InDesign (but not my Mac).
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