A Small Query: Scientific Transcription of Sanskrit

[Christophe Vielle]

 It is the Tenth Congress of Orientalists in 1894.
See J. Burgess, "The Transliteration of Oriental Alphabets" in Actes du
Dixième Congrès International des Orientalistes, session de Genève, 1894,
second part, Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1897, pp. 25-42.

>Dear List Members,
>
>Does anyone of you know when exactly and where the present transcription of
>Sanskrit was introduced - to be uniformly used by indologists all over?
>That with macrons over vovels, dots under to mark retroflexes, acute over s
>to make it denote palatal sibilant, small circle under sonantal l and r.
>Etc. I kind of remember that it was done at some International Congress -
>in Paris?
>
>Your help will be greatly appreciated.
>
>Artur Karp
>
>University of Warsaw
>Poland
>
>
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Dr. Christophe Vielle
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