Guest guest Posted July 24, 2004 Report Share Posted July 24, 2004 Is there such an animal as a dictionary for transliterated English, ones that uses diacritically marked transliterations? There are several Sanskrit dictionaries online (post #3692 mentions one). However, these dictionaries are so limited. I have tried using English words to get the transliterated word and see if it matches the text words. This is not only tedious but mostly unproductive. Also online dictionaries use the Harvard-Kyoto convention, not the tranliterated form in our Devi Mandir books. It would be so helpful to have a dictionary in print (book) form at an affordable price. Is there such a thing? P.S. Does anyone know what 'visvarupasya' (accent mark on the first s and line over the u) means? Thanks! <smile> Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted July 25, 2004 Report Share Posted July 25, 2004 Dear Karen and Mike, The Sanskrit-English dictionaries that we find on the web use mostly two transliteration standards, the Harvard-Kyoto and the Itrans, they are used to make easy writing Sanskrit letters. The diacritical marks that you find on printed books are the " official standard ". I'm sending as an attachment the map of correspondences between the systems. Once known the Itrans standard can help you a lot making it easy to write texts in devanagari script. Hope this can help you in your studies. May Mother Kali bless us. Jorge Farias > Sat, 24 Jul 2004 16:05:07 -0000 > "Karen and Mike" <karenborak >Dictionary for Transliterated English? > >Is there such an animal as a dictionary for transliterated English, >ones that uses diacritically marked transliterations? There are >several Sanskrit dictionaries online (post #3692 mentions one). >However, these dictionaries are so limited. I have tried using >English words to get the transliterated word and see if it matches >the text words. This is not only tedious but mostly unproductive. >Also online dictionaries use the Harvard-Kyoto convention, not the >tranliterated form in our Devi Mandir books. It would be so helpful >to have a dictionary in print (book) form at an affordable price. >Is there such a thing? _______________ MSN Messenger: instale grátis e converse com seus amigos. http://messenger.msn.com.br Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted July 26, 2004 Report Share Posted July 26, 2004 Jorge, thank you for the map of correspondences between the systems. It is exactly what I need to convert the diacritically marked words into a format that the online dictionaries can accept. I just finished printing the charts, and I can't wait to use them during my study time today. It was so very kind of you to send the attachments. Best regards - Karen and Mike , "jorge farias" <devotodekali@h...> wrote: > Dear Karen and Mike, > The Sanskrit-English dictionaries that we find on the web use mostly two > transliteration standards, the Harvard-Kyoto and the Itrans, they are used > to make easy writing Sanskrit letters. The diacritical marks that you find > on printed books are the " official standard ". I'm sending as an attachment > the map of correspondences between the systems. > Once known the Itrans standard can help you a lot making it easy to write > texts in devanagari script. Hope this can help you in your studies. > > May Mother Kali bless us. > > Jorge Farias > > > > Sat, 24 Jul 2004 16:05:07 -0000 > > "Karen and Mike" <karenborak@e...> > >Dictionary for Transliterated English? > > > >Is there such an animal as a dictionary for transliterated English, > >ones that uses diacritically marked transliterations? There are > >several Sanskrit dictionaries online (post #3692 mentions one). > >However, these dictionaries are so limited. I have tried using > >English words to get the transliterated word and see if it matches > >the text words. This is not only tedious but mostly unproductive. > >Also online dictionaries use the Harvard-Kyoto convention, not the > >tranliterated form in our Devi Mandir books. It would be so helpful > >to have a dictionary in print (book) form at an affordable price. > >Is there such a thing? > > _______________ > MSN Messenger: instale grátis e converse com seus amigos. > http://messenger.msn.com.br Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted July 26, 2004 Report Share Posted July 26, 2004 Karen, Could you post the attachments in our files section? They did not come through on the forum. Thanks, Ardis "karen_cha_mike" <karenborak (AT) earthlink (DOT) net> Mon, 26 Jul 2004 13:51:01 -0000 Re: Dictionary for Transliterated English? Jorge, thank you for the map of correspondences between the systems. It is exactly what I need to convert the diacritically marked words into a format that the online dictionaries can accept. I just finished printing the charts, and I can't wait to use them during my study time today. It was so very kind of you to send the attachments. Best regards - Karen and Mike , "jorge farias" <devotodekali@h...> wrote: > Dear Karen and Mike, > The Sanskrit-English dictionaries that we find on the web use mostly two > transliteration standards, the Harvard-Kyoto and the Itrans, they are used > to make easy writing Sanskrit letters. The diacritical marks that you find > on printed books are the " official standard ". I'm sending as an attachment > the map of correspondences between the systems. > Once known the Itrans standard can help you a lot making it easy to write > texts in devanagari script. Hope this can help you in your studies. > > May Mother Kali bless us. > > Jorge Farias > > > > Sat, 24 Jul 2004 16:05:07 -0000 > > "Karen and Mike" <karenborak@e...> > >Dictionary for Transliterated English? > > > >Is there such an animal as a dictionary for transliterated English, > >ones that uses diacritically marked transliterations? There are > >several Sanskrit dictionaries online (post #3692 mentions one). > >However, these dictionaries are so limited. I have tried using > >English words to get the transliterated word and see if it matches > >the text words. This is not only tedious but mostly unproductive. > >Also online dictionaries use the Harvard-Kyoto convention, not the > >tranliterated form in our Devi Mandir books. It would be so helpful > >to have a dictionary in print (book) form at an affordable price. > >Is there such a thing? > > _______________ > MSN Messenger: instale grátis e converse com seus amigos. > http://messenger.msn.com.br Sponsor / <?subject=Un> Terms of Service <> . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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