1895.] Beport on Transliteration, 327 



The table of the German Oriental Society transcribes the cerebral I 

 hj I with a point subscript. There is not it is true any serious risk of 

 confusion in practice between the vowel and the cerebral I. It is however 

 preferable to establish a difference between the writing of the two letters, 

 so that each separate symbol of the Devanagari alphabet may possess its 

 appropriate equivalent in the alphabet of transcription. The I with a 

 line subscript answers perfectly, as the London Society proposes, for 

 the notation of the cerebral I. 



Against this the transcription of Anunasika by in in place of the 

 simple sign "^ placed above the vowel recommends itself at once by its 

 symmetry with the notation m of the anuswara and by the advantage 

 Tvhich it possesses of reflecting, by an alphabetic character the phonetic 

 value of which it is the exponent equally with all the other signs. 

 Upon these bases, the alphabet of transcription would be thus con- 

 stituted. 



r I I e ai au 



a 



a 



I \ 



: U 



u 



k 



kh 



g 



gh 



n 



c 



ch 



J 



Jh 



n 



t 



th 



d 



dh 



n 



t 



th 



d 



dh 



n 



•P 



ph 



h 



hh 



r)i 



y 



r 



I % 



1 s 



s 



h I m m 

 visarga h 

 jihvamuliya h 

 upadhmaniya h 

 As to the accents, the udatta would be represented by the acute 

 accent ' ; the svarita by the circumflex " ; and the anudatta by the grave 

 accent \ 



Such, gentlemen, are the modest conclusions without pretensions 

 to being systematic, which your Sub-Committee has the honour to submit 

 to you. 



Your Sub-Committee is of opinion that it is only by very caretully 

 adjusted reforms that it will be possible to make any decisive progress 

 in the unification of rival systems. 



The cooperation of two powerful Societies such as the German 

 Oriental Society and the JRoyal Asiatic Society of London whose 

 agreement under these conditions would appear to be assured, cannot 

 fail to be a very powerful lever. 



There is moreover every ground for hope that propositions so 

 eclectic and so little ambitious will command even other and valuable 

 adherents. 



Emile Senart. 



