1895.] 
Report on Transliteration. 
327 
The table of the German Oriental Society transcribes the cerebral l 
by l with a point subscript. There is not it is true any serious risk of 
confusion in practice between the vowel and the cerebral l. It is however 
preferable to establish a difference between tfi6 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 Z with a 
line subscript answers perfectly, as the London Society proposes, for 
the notation of the cerebral Z. 
Against this the transcription of Anunasika by m 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 
which 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. 
aaiiuurrl l e ai o au 
• • • •• 
h kh g gli n 
c ch j jli n 
t th d dh n 
• • • • • 
t tli d dli n 
p ph b bh m 
yrlvssshlm in 
visarga h 
jihvamullya h 
upadhmaniya h 
As to the accents, the udatta would be represented by the acute 
accent '; the svarita by the circumflex A ; 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 Royal 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. 
