ITRANS 5.2 Transliteration Scheme
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ITRANS 5.2 is the preferred transliteration scheme used for the Sanskrit 
Documents at https://sanskritdocuments.org/.  For scripts other than Devanagari
(Marathi, Hindi, Sanskrit) and Gujarati please refer to
http://www.aczoom.com/itrans/tblall/tblall.html

Please print and post this table next to your computer till
you get familiar with it. 

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ITRANS 5.2 Encoding for Devanagari (Hindi/Marathi/Sanskrit) 

This section describes the ITRANS encoding, for Devanagari. This is the basic 
encoding used for all Indic language scripts. 

ITRANS 5.2 is completely compatible with the older ITRANS 4.04 release, 
so any documents encoded in ITRANS 4.04 will work correctly with ITRANS 5.1. 

Vowels (dependent and independent):
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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:
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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:
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Anusvara:       .n / 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)

A few new codes are now also accepted: 
	w (== v), 
	kSh (== ksh), 
	~n (== JN),
	~N (== N^), 
	dny (== GY), 
	^r (== .r == hindi-half-ra). 

Consonants with a nukta (dot) under them (mainly for Urdu devanagari):
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k  with a dot:      q
kh with a dot:      K
g  with a dot:      G
j  with a dot:      z
p  with a dot:      f
D  with a dot:      .D
Dh with a dot:      .Dh

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Both .n and M produce anusvaara, 
.a avagraha, 
.h haLa.nta (leg break), 
H 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.
Enclose english text in two sets of ## signs (before and after the text.

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For more information and latest updates, 
see the documentation in the ITRANS package or browse 
ITRANS home page at http://www.aczoom.com/itrans/

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Last updates March 31, 2000