====== Transcription conventions ======
Sanskrit text has been trascribed using the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Alphabet_of_Sanskrit_Transliteration|IAST]] convention. However, since IAST was not designed for the diplomatic transcription of primary sources, a number of additional characters are also used.
^character ^unicode value ^description ^example ^^
| | | ''vertical bar [U+007C]'' | daṇḍa | arthaḥ | | അൎഥഃ । |
| || | two ''vertical bars [U+007C]'' | double daṇḍa | arthaḥ || | అర్థః ॥ |
| ¦ | ''broken bar [U+00A6]'' | line filler (i.e., a daṇḍa at the end of a line) | a¦rthaḥ | अ¦र्थः |
| _ | ''underscore [U+005F]'' | explicit hiatus | aṅ_ga, tita_u | अङ्ग, തിതഉ |
| ḻ | "l" with ''macron below [U+0331]'' | retroflex lateral approximant | ḻa | ळ, ള, ళ |
| ❈ | ''heavy sparkle [U+2748]'' | general puṣpikā sign | ❈ | ❈ |
| ॰ | ''abbreviation sign [U+0970]'' | abbreviation sign | ma॰ bhā॰ | മ॰ ഭാ॰ |
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^ Devanāgarī ^^^^^
| oṁ | "o","m" with ''combining dot above [U+0307]'' | oṃkāra sign | oṁ | ॐ |
| oḿ | "o","m" with ''acute accent [U+0301]'' | Jaina oṃkāra sign | oḿ | ꣽ |
| __ | two ''underscores [U+005F]'' | explicit half-letter | aṇ__ṅga | अण्ङ्ग |
| ê, ô, aî, aû | vowel with ''circumflex accent [U+0302]'' | pṛṣṭhamātrā vowels | kê kaû | कॎ कॎो |
| ¯ | ''macron [U+00AF]'' | empty śirorekha | śiro¯kha | शिरोꣻख |
| ꣸ | ''pushpika [U+A8F8]'' | Devanāgarī puṣpikā sign | ꣸ | ꣸ |
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^ Malayālam ^^^^^
| r | "r" | "r" in a consonantal cluster is rendered as a dot reph | artthaḥ | അൎത്ഥഃ |
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^ Telugu ^^^^^
| ṙ | "r" with ''combining dot above [U+0307]'' | valapalagilaka | aṙtthaḥ | అర్త్థః |
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===== Special characters =====
Some characters, which may be currently unrepresented in Unicode, can be displayed by means of font variants. These are currently encoded using the tag.
^code ^unicode value ^OpenType feature ^display ^
| | ''devanagari danda [U+0964]'' | character variant 1 | । |
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| | ''devanagari danda [U+0964]'' | character variant 2 | । |
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| | ''newa gap filler [U+01144E]'' | | 𑑎 |
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| | ''newa gap filler [U+01144E]'' | character variant 1 | 𑑎
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| | ''newa comma [[https://www.compart.com/en/unicode/U+1144D|[U+1144D] ]]'' | | 𑑍 |
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| | ''newa double comma [[https://www.compart.com/en/unicode/U+1145A|[U+1145A] ]]'' | | 𑑚 |
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| | ''sharada sign siddham [U+111DB]'' | | 𑇛 |
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| | ''sharada section mark-1 [U+111DE]'' | | 𑇞 |
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| | ''sharada section mark-2 [U+111DF]'' | | 𑇟 |
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| | ''sharada separator [U+111C8]'' | | 𑇈 |
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| | ''sharada continuation sign [[https://www.compart.com/en/unicode/U+111DD|[U+111DD] ]]'' | | 𑇝 |
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