Appendix B: Text Input System
- (1)
- Sanskrit diacritics are entered using the Unicode Standard Encoding (utf-8), using
IAST transliteration:
- vowels and diphthongs:
- a, ā, i, ī, u, ū, ṛ, ṝ, ḷ, e, ai, o, au
- gutturals:
- k, kh, g, gh, ṅ
- palatals:
- c, ch, j, jh, ñ
- cerebrals:
- ṭ, ṭh, ḍ, ḍh, ṇ
- dentals:
- t, th, d, dh, n
- labials:
- p, ph, b, bh, m
- semivowels:
- y, r, l, v
- sibilants:
- ś, ṣ, s
- aspirate:
- h
- anusvāra:
- ṃ
- visarga:
- ḥ
- avagraha:
- '
- (2)
- Anusvāra is transliterated by:
- ṅ
- before gutturals
- ñ
- before palatals
- ṇ
- before cerebrals
- n
- before dentals
- m
- before labials
- (3)
- Members of a compound are separated by periods.
- (4)
- External sandhi is decomposed with -.
- (5)
- Prose sections are subdivided by a,b,c, etc..
- (6)
- The text was originally input by Muneo Tokunaga in June 1992; Proof read by the following members of the Joint Seminar on "Law (dharma) and Society in Classical India" (coordinated by Y. Ikari at the Institute for Research in Humanities, Kyoto University) in March 1993: Akihiko Akamatsu, Yasuke Ikari, Fumio Enomoto, Katsuhiko Kamimura, Toshifumi Goto, Jun Takashima, Hideaki Nakatani, Takao Hayashi, Masato Fujii, Toru Funayama, Michio Yano, and Nobuyuki Watase.