Guest guest Posted May 3, 2001 Report Share Posted May 3, 2001 I don't understand the use of random capital letters for sanskrit words, could someone please advise? advaitin, sundar_rajan@h... wrote: > Sri Murthyji, > > >>The enquiry "Who am I?" is not for everyone. Or to put it > more correctly, the enquiry "Who am I?" is for everyone at > some stage in their spiritual development, but that stage > is not decided by the ego. That has to evolve by itself. > >> > Excellent point. That is why I had posed this question: > Talking about Vichara marga - I have often wondered what motivates > people who are on vichara marga (path of enquiry). What keeps them > going? > > And you very rightly pointed out the pre-requisite 'sAdhana > catuShTayam' for the vichara marga. Similarly, Abhyasa and Vairagya > are deemed requirements for the Yoga (Meditation) path. Bhakti marga > probably has the least entry requirements but you must have the > innate love. > > > Sundar Rajan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted May 3, 2001 Report Share Posted May 3, 2001 On Thu, 3 May 2001, Paul J. Cote wrote: > I don't understand the use of random capital letters for sanskrit > words, could someone please advise? > namaste. To write sanskrit words in Romanized transliteration, the convention that is used is what is called ITRANS. The objective is to get the sound of the sanskrit word represented in the written word. While reading with intermixed upper and lower cases may look irritating at the beginning, it is recognized that it is a very useful procedure, and once one gets used to it, cannot really manage without it. The procedure is very clearly described at http://www.aczone.com/itrans and http://www.aczone.com/itrans/#itransencoding some examples: A or any upper case vowel is the long vowel sound s is the sound of s as in snow sh is the sound of the first s in satisfy Sh is the sound of sh in show T is the sound of t in tent t is close to the sound of th in path D is the sound of d in bread d is the sound of th in there and so on. Please see the above referred URLs for a more complete description. shri Sunder Hattangadi, one of our moderators, is an expert at this and has transliterated many of shri shankara's and other classic sanskrit works into ITRANS. They are available at the sanskrit documents site sanskrit.gde.to Regards Gummuluru Murthy ------ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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