translation of ancient vedic texts and excerpts

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makaush
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translation of ancient vedic texts and excerpts

Post by makaush »

hey evone :D


can anyone post links to guidelines for translation of ancient aryan texts in indic languages into latin? for example sanskrit ! ? ....

<guidelines = direct interpretation,....syntactic protocols,.....substitution indexes...etc>


thenkya 8)

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Post by annis »

I'm not sure I understand your question entirely. For transliteration of Devanagari - or whichever Brahmi derived script - here's one edition of the Rg Veda:

http://www.sacred-texts.com/hin/rvsan/index.htm

I don't care much for the transliteration, but it is clear.

For Pali texts I'm used to prefixed dots for retroflexes (K.r.s.na, for example), double vowels for longs (gacchaami), and .h for visarga and .m for the anusvaara.
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this should tell!!

Post by makaush »

hey :D



by the above i meant...a benchmarking document....like the one here

------->> http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/~axs/courses/ai.html

the above link concerns a completely different subject
but should give you a better idea of what the query was about!!

thankya :D


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