Guest guest Report post Posted April 22, 2006 advaitin, Yogendra Bhikku <bhikkuyogi> wrote: > > > It would be of great help if someone would point me to the convention used popularly on this list. I simply use letters of the alphabet in a the best way known to me. Yet, by no means would I render 'santu' and 'chandu'. Perhaps I am wrong. Please forgive me for this. Moderators' Note: ITRANS encoding, for Devanagari. This is the basic encoding used for all Indic language scripts. Consult the individual language manuals in the ITRANS archive (ITRANS/doc/*.itx files, also available for online browsing) for exact details on every language supported by ITRANS. Vowels (dependent and independent): ------- a aa / A i ii / I u uu / U RRi / R^i RRI / R^I LLi / L^i LLI / L^I e ai o au aM aH Consonants: ----------- k kh g gh ~N ch Ch j jh ~n T Th D Dh N t th d dh n p ph b bh m y r l v / w sh Sh s h L x / kSh GY / j~n / dny shr R (for marathi half-RA) L / ld (marathi LLA) Y (bengali) Specials/Accents: ----------------- Anusvara: .n / M / .m (dot on top of previous consonant/vowel) Avagraha: .a (`S' like symbol basically to replace a after o) Ardhachandra: .c (for vowel sound as in english words `cat' or `talk') Chandra-Bindu: .N (chandra-bindu on top of previous letter) Halant: .h (to get half-form of the consonant - no vowel - virama) Visarga: H (visarga - looks like a colon character) Om: OM, AUM (Om symbol) [As shown, many codes have multiple choices, example "RRi / R^i" implies you can use either "RRi" or "R^i"] =================================================================== Harvard-Kyoto (HK) convention: a A i I u U R RR lR lRR e ai o au M H k kh g gh G c ch j jh J T Th D Dh N t th d dh n p ph b bh m y r l v z S s h ================================================================== International diacritics: Cannot be reproduced here: these are letters with under- or over- dots, etc. Most printed books use these. ================================================================= Unicode: not finalized yet. ================================================================= Hybrid : as we think we should write them!! ================================================================= This question crops up periodically, and is dealt with when it is raised. As new members join in, they are not aware of the previous responses. There are certain advatages and disadvantages to each of these methods. The Unicode format is still evolving. It becomes even more complez when Vedic accents are introduced! The Itrans has the major advantage that it can be processed/converted into all the major Indic scripts. Pl. visit: http://www.aczoom.com/itrans/online/ Discussion of Shankara's Advaita Vedanta Philosophy of nonseparablity of Atman and Brahman. Advaitin Homepage at:http://www.advaitin.net/ To Post a message send an email to : advaitin Messages Archived at: advaitin/messages Visit your group "advaitin" on the web. advaitin Terms of Service. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
