Re: Careful Transliteration
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• January 11, 2001
Sri. MahavishNu: Your comments are very welcome; I am sure that many members of this list have observed transliteration problems. The issue comes back to whether the writer is spelling out a word from Tamil or Sanskrit - most people appear to use the Tamil standards with Sanskrit words interchangeably. Unfortunately, one size does not fit all here, and the resulting inconsistencies have been described by Sri. Mani Varadarajan and Sri. Anand Karalapakkam earlier. There is no obvious way to resolve this, since the very fact of whether a word belongs to Sanskrit or Tamil is disputed by most people. In this controversial setting, one can easily make the argument that a particular word is from Tamil and so can be spelled ambigiously -- an "ambiguity" that would cease to exist under that argument. It would be a good idea to agree upon some tranliteration standards for both languages, to begin with. Then, we can use them to our advantage at least in stotrams and pasurams, where the "origin" of the words are not in dispute [as opposed to casual usage]. I request the administrator to provide such guidelines. adiyEn, -Srinath C. > From: "Srimahavishnu Vinjamuri"> Subject: Need to do careful transliteration > > For the benefit of a very few Bhagavatas, > who are frequently writing wrongly transliterated samskruta words in the list and elsewhere, adiyen wishes to post the following sanskrit words tranliterated into Englsh which can serve as a guideline. > > [.................] > > Not all of the above (except the first two) are of serious nature. But there is nothing wrong in writing the things rightly. > > It is higly offensive to find fault with Bhagavatottamas. I tender many many apologies. My only intention is to serve a very few Bhagavatas in improving their transliteration. -------------------------------------------------------------- - SrImate rAmAnujAya namaH - To Post a message, send it to: bhakti-list@eGroups.com Search archives at http://ramanuja.org/sv/bhakti/archives/index.html#SEARCH Manage your subscription at http://www.egroups.com/mygroups
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