[INDOLOGY] Devanagari v and b in manuscripts from Kashmir

[Dominik Wujastyk]

In transcribing a manuscript it is best practice to transcribe
diplomatically exactly what the MS says.

A second, separate file may be prepared that contains various
normalisations, like ba/va or śa/sa, rma/rmma, etc.

To normalise the main transcription file takes away the opportunity to
study these phenomena.  And in any case, the majority of these features can
be manipulated with regular-expression rules, as in Saktumiva
<https://saktumiva.org/wiki/orthography>.  So there's no need to normalise
them.

Best,
Dominik
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