ajAti vAda

NOTES:
1. The pronunciation of vowels is closer to German usage than to English. Note the
dots "." used in the vowel list (e.g. m. and lr.). "R" is used in words such as Rshi,
bRhad etc. RR and lr. are included for the sake of completeness.
2. The avagraha sign (indicating an elided "a") is depicted as ' - an apostrophe. This
sign is not included in the above image.
3. are all transliterated as "n". The pronunciation is clear from the context,
as they occur mostly in conjunct formations.
4. visarga ( : ) is used only in quotations.
5. Aspirated and non-aspirated consonants are indicated by separate signs in Indian
scripts. Thus, "p" is always non-aspirated, while "ph" is always an aspirated
sound.
6. Upper-case letters are used in both the vowel and consonant lists for
transliteration. Generally, an upper-case vowel , e.g. "A", is a longer version of
the corresponding lower-case vowel, here "a". Upper-case consonants are used
only in one series (T ... N). Upper-case letters are avoided in all the other series, in
order to be unambiguous and to maintain uniformity.
7. Consequently, sentences that incorporate sam.skr.ta words appear to deviate from
normal English punctuation. The only exceptions to this occur in the titles, which
are all in capitals. Here, a larger font size is used to denote a sound that would
normally require an upper-case letter.
8. The transliteration scheme is used only for words that are specifically related to
advaita vedAnta. Thus, names of Indian states or cities are spelt according to
usual convention.