MADRAS JOURNAL 



OF 



LITERATURE AND SCIENCE. 



NO. 8, NEtTTeRIES. 



Oct. 1858.— Mae, 1859. 



Report of Madras Literary Society and Auxiliary of the 

 Royal Asiatic Society, on writing Indian Words in 

 Roman Characters. 



"The second system of Asiatic Orthography consists in scrupulously 

 rendering letter for letter, without any particular care to preserve the pronun- 

 ciation ; and, as long as this mode proceeds by unvaried rules, it seems clearly 

 entitled to preference." Sir W. Jones. 



The Sub-Committee appointed in the early part of last 



year to consider the best mode of re- 

 Messrs. Walter Elliot. . , , . _ 



w. H. Bayley. presenting Oriental words m Roman 



M. Norman. characters, beg to submit the following 

 report. 



They must premise by stating, that shortly after their 

 nomination, two of their number were obliged by ill health 

 and the calls of duty, to leave the Presidency, and that they 

 have not, in consequence, been able to discuss so fully as they 

 desired, the various points involved in a subject calculated 

 to elicit considerable differences of opinion. They did not 

 consider that this circumstance absolved them from the duty 

 entrusted to them. Although deprived of the advantage of 



