1895.] 



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which the letters of the Arabic Alphabet have received in the various 

 Musulman countries. 



This is one of the reasons for the two methods of transcription 

 which tlie Commission has proposed as alternatives for certain letters. 



Tlie number of letters whose transcription is a matter of option 

 has been brought to the very lowest possible number consistent with 

 necessity, and we may fairly hope that Orientalists of all countries will 

 take pains to render tliis number still smaller, by keeping as closely 

 as possible to the method of transcription to which the Commission 

 has deemed it a duty to give the pieference. 



With regard to the transcription of Sanskrit there has been far 

 less diversity of opinion, and difficulty has only been experienced in the 

 transcription of a very small number of letters. 



In such cases, the Commission, in weighing the various equivalents 

 proposed, has chosen those which on the whole appear to be the most 

 practical. To arrive at uniformity, etich country and each Society 

 ought to make certain concessions, and the Commission hopes that the 

 systems now put forward by it will be unanimously accepted and put 

 in practice forthwith. 



Barbie R de Meynard. 



G. BtJHLER. 



J. Burgess. 



M. J. DE GOEJE. 



H. Thomson Lyon. 



G. T. Plunkett. 



Emile Senart. 



SOCIN. 

 WiNDISCH. 



Geneva^ the \Oth September, 1894. 





TRANSLITERATION OF THE SANSKRIT AND PALI 

 ALPHABETS. 



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