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Guide to Transliteration symbols used in the book

Most of the Sanskrit words used in this book are presented in
italics using Roman scripts as transliteration. The transliteration
schema used in this book is based on the International Alphabet of
Sanskrit Transliteration (IAST). IAST is a transliteration scheme
that allows a lossless romanization of scripts as employed by the
Sanskrit language. The details are given below.

Vowels

a u ḷ o
ā ū ḹ au
i ṛ e ṃ
ī ṝ ai ḥ

Consonants

ka ca ṭa ta pa
kha cha ṭha tha pha

ga ja ḍa da ba
gha jha ḍha dha bha
ṅa ña ṇa na ma

ha ya Ra la va
śa ṣa sa

Others

kṣa tra jña śra ‘

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