[INDOLOGY] Revision of ISO 15919 (transliteration of Indic scripts)

[Harry Spier]

Thank you for the clarification Madhav.  Since your book predates the 15919
standard, I'm wondering what sanskrit  books after creation of the 15919
standard have chosen it over the IAST standard.  The two Clay Sanskrit
library books I have use the  IAST transliteration scheme and as far as I
can see the Sanskrit etexts in GRETIL also use IAST.  Muktabodha uses IAST.

Harry Spier


On Tue, Jun 6, 2023 at 8:14 PM Madhav Deshpande <mmdesh at umich.edu> wrote:

> Thanks, Harry, but while writing my संस्कृतसुबोधिनी, which goes back to
> mid-1980s, I did not consult "ISO 15919 standard" or any such documents.
> I was following, what seemed to me at the time, to be the prevalent
> practice. If my memory serves me correctly, to use r̥,  r̥̄, l̥, with small
> circles under r and l, I was influenced by Wackernagel's Altindische
> Grammatik. I had used the same in designing my diacritics font
> Manjushree-CSX. While the ancient fonts used for the संस्कृतसुबोधिनी going
> back to mid-1980s and the pre-Unicode Manjushree-CSX are no longer usable,
> I am generally continuing to use these diacritics today. Probably just by
> acquired habit.
>
> Madhav
>
> Madhav M. Deshpande
> Professor Emeritus, Sanskrit and Linguistics
> University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
> Senior Fellow, Oxford Center for Hindu Studies
> Adjunct Professor, National Institute of Advanced Studies, Bangalore, India
>
> [Residence: Campbell, California, USA]
>
>
> On Tue, Jun 6, 2023 at 4:38 PM Harry Spier via INDOLOGY <
> indology at list.indology.info> wrote:
>
>>  To download a  pdf of the current ISO 15919  standard (a 30 page
>> document) costs 145 Swiss francs = 160 US dollars. I'm wondering if this is
>> one of the reasons that most people use IAST for transliterated Sanskrit.
>> The only place I've seen the ISO 15919 standard used in a book is Madhav
>> Deshpande's sanskrit primer संस्कृतसुभोधिनी .
>>
>> Harry Spier
>>
>>
>>
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