Properly render Hindi (Devnagari) in wordcloud Python library (which uses matplotlib)

Dockerfile

# TODO: Optimize Dockerfile by combining multiple RUN commands into one, and using Multi-Stage Builds
FROM public.ecr.aws/lambda/python:3.11
RUN yum install -y freetype-devel harfbuzz-devel fribidi-devel meson gtk-doc
RUN yum install -y wget
RUN wget https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/7/x86_64/Packages/l/libraqm-0.7.0-4.el7.x86_64.rpm && yum localinstall -y libraqm-0.7.0-4.el7.x86_64.rpm

RUN yum install -y cairo-devel pkg-config python3-devel
# install gcc required for building wheels of pycairo
RUN yum install -y gcc
RUN pip3 install --upgrade pip setuptools wheel
RUN pip3 install pycairo
RUN pip3 install mplcairo wordcloud
COPY . .
#ENTRYPOINT ["/lambda-entrypoint.sh", "hindi_wordcloud.lambda_handle"]
# Error: entrypoint handler requires at least one argument, fixed after adding below line
ENTRYPOINT python3 hindi_wordcloud.py 
CMD python3 hindi_wordcloud.py

matplotlib_hindi_devanagari_wordcloud.py

from collections import Counter
from wordcloud import WordCloud
import matplotlib
matplotlib.use("module://mplcairo.qt")
font_path = "Arial-Unicode-Regular.ttf"      # change font path to any installed Devnagari font

def lambda_handler(event, context):
    words = ["नमस्ते", "दृष्टि"]
    word_freqs = Counter(words)
    wc = WordCloud(width=800, height=400, background_color='white', font_path=font_path)
    wc.generate_from_frequencies(word_freqs)
    image = wc.to_image()
    image.save('/data/hindi_wordcloud.png')
    print('saved wordcloud')
    
if __name__ == '__main__':
    print(lambda_handler({}, {}))