Transliteration Scheme

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SrI:

SrI Lakshminrusimha ParabrahmaNE namaH

SrI Lakshminrusimha divya pAdukA sEvaka SrIvaN SaThakOpa-

SrI nArAyaNa yateendra mahAdESikAya namaH

 

namO nArAyaNa!

 

Dear members,

 

Reg the recent discussion on the transliteration scheme to be

adopted for Sanskrit to English, aDiyEn would like to

share what is used by me in general after some experience :

 

Vowels :

a A i I u U ru rU lu e ai O/o au am aH

 

Consonants :

ka kha ga gha N~a

cha Cha ja jha n~a

Ta Tha Da Dha Na

ta tha da dha na

pa pha ba bha ma

ya ra la va

Sa sha sa ha

 

 

Note :

 

1. In English, the first letter is written in upper-case.

So, we sometimes write for example, " ananta " as " Ananta " .

If the word is too well known, its allright to change the

first letter from lower-case to upper-case, though the

transliteration might not be perfect.

 

2. Because of the above problem, one might choose to

write " Anand " as " Aanand " , to stress that the first

letter " A " is not a mere lower-case " a " changed to

upper-case " A " for the sake of English.

 

3. In Tamil, " o " and " O " are there. eg: onRu (one)

and ODu (run). In Sanskrit, either of these will

denote the same letter. However, " O " will be preferred

for the sake of pronounciation.

 

4. While one writes normally as " Lord Krishna " and

" Lord Rama " , according to this scheme it will be

written as " Lord KrushNa " and " Lord rAmA / RAmA " .

 

5. " c " and " ch " used by standard transliteration scheme

is changed to " ch " and " Ch " by me for convenience. For

instance, according to the standard scheme, one has to

write as " AcArya " , " arca vigraha " etc. But in the above

scheme, it will be written as " AchArya " , " archa vigraha " ,

etc.

 

6. NammAzhwAr's name will thus be either " SaThakOpa " Or

" SaThakopa " in this scheme, because " O " / " o "

denotes the same letter in Sanskrit.

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SrI Dileepan : If needed, you can kindly place the

above transliteration scheme in the malolan net page /

Ahobila Muth Page, as a suggestion for the members'

convenience to adopt a standard scheme during communication,

thereby increase the readability of the articles.

This is not a sort of " rule " to be followed ofcourse. The

objective is only to make the communication better - Any

means adopted for this goal will be appreciated. On the other

hand, one needn't be bothered too much about the

transliteration scheme at the cost of shying away from posting

an article !

 

aDiyEn rAmAnuja dAsan,

anantapadmanAbhan

krushNArpaNam.

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SrI:

SrI Lakshminrusimha ParabrahmaNE namaH

SrI Lakshminrusimha divya pAdukA sEvaka SrIvaN SaThakOpa-

SrI nArAyaNa yateendra mahAdESikAya namaH

 

namO nArAyaNa!

 

Dear members,

 

Additional note :

 

> Vowels :

> a A i I u U ru rU lu e ai O/o au am aH

 

" E " can be preferred over " e " , because in tamil

we have both " e " ( " enadu " ie. my) and " E " ( " KELvi "

ie. question).

 

Hence, one can write sanskrit words like " Eka " (one)

instead of " eka " , since the first letter is deergham

<elongated> and is pronounced as the tamil " E " .

 

Hence, the vowel in Sanskrit is better transliterated as " E "

and not " e " .

 

Also, " ee " can be used to denote the tamil letter used in

words like " eeDu " , " eeDupADu " , " neermai " etc. This is

different from the tamil letters " e " and " E " as noted earlier.

 

aDiyEn rAmAnuja dAsan,

anantapadmanAbhan

krushNArpaNam.