Request

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vaNakkam / namaami

 

Many interesting articles are posted to this list

and I thank all those who do this service. I have a

request regarding the posting format. It would be more

useful if standard transliteration schemes are followed

while posting the text in Tamil or Sanskrit. It will make

it more readable and enable to identify the typographical

errors or similar mistakes. There are some standard tools

available ( like ITRANS) to convert the transliterated

text to native fonts, which will make it more readable.

 

Many of you may be aware of ongoing electronic

texts projects, for instance you can find details of

sanskrit projects in

 

ftp://jaguar.cs.utah.edu/private/sanskrit/sanskrit.html

 

you might find similar information about tamil projects

in

 

http://dcwww.epfl.ch/icp/ICP-2/tamil.html

or

http://tamil.math.utk.edu/

 

Whatever that is being posted can go into these projects(

with little additional effort).

 

There are many transliteration schemes available. For

example I follow the madurai scheme for thamizh

 

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Madurai Transliteration Scheme

 

uyir (vowels) : a aa i ee u oo e E ai o O au q

mey (consonants) : k NG c NY t N th n^ p m y r l v z L R n

maaRRu : A=aa; I=ee; U=oo; g=k; s=ch=c; d=t; b=p;

zh=z; nj= NYc; nk=NGk; nt=Nt; nth=n^th;

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and ITRANS for saMskR^itaM

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I T R A N S 4.0

 

T R A N S L I T E R A T I O N S C H E M E

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Vowels:

a aa(A) i ii(I) u uu(U) R^i R^I L^i L^I e ai o au aM aH

 

Consonants:

k kh g gh N^

ch chh j jh JN

T Th D Dh N

t th d dh n

p ph b bh m

y r l v sh shh

s h L

 

.n or M produces anusvaara .a produces avagraha,

.h produces haLa.nta H produces visarga

 

Only a dot . or a vertical line | produce a da.nDa , \. produces

just a dot (puurNaviraama), a.c and aa.c produce ardhachandra as in

cat and talk. The vowels need to be added after each consonent,

unless one wants joDaakshara. No other letters (upper or lower cases)

are allowed.

 

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For instance the signature file of this mail follows the

ITRANS scheme. I do not claim that these transliteration

schems are the best ones. There may be better schemes,

following any consistent scheme would help the readers to

a great extent. This is my humble request.

 

--

Ravi msr

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kaarpNyadoshhopahata svabhaavaH

pR^ichchhaami tvaaM dharmasammuuDhachetaH |

yat.h shreyaH syat.h nishchitaM bruuhi tanme

shishhyaH te ahaM shaadhi maaM tvaaM prapannaM || 2-7 ||

shriimad bhagavad giitaa

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