[INDOLOGY] Anusvara in IAST transliteration

Harry Spier vasishtha.spier at gmail.com
Mon Mar 2 13:48:22 UTC 2026


Dear everyone,
Daniel BAlogh wrote:
I dare say that as far as IAST can be considered a standard, the "correct"
IAST anusvāra is ṃ
Walter Slaje wrote:

>  I believe that whether one uses ṃ or ṁ, there will be no undesirable
> consequences.
>

The reason I asked the question was because of search engines.
The Searchable Sanskrit Library has a search engine covering multiple
collections so all anusvara's (like all other letters in it) need to follow
the same convention (either overdot or underdot) .  But it seems that since
all the collections I've seen use m underdot thats been chosen as the de
facto standard.

Thanks,
Harry Spier
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