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Examples of the Definitions

Example 1: Slow-lane analysis of a word in Devanagari

In Kâlidâsa's Raghuvamsa there occurs the word:

('disturbance in the ashram' - using a popular transcription for the moment!). In Devanagari this appears as:

.
In schematic form, the slow-lane analysis proceeds as follows:

elements of Devanagari:
graphic tokens _______: the same!
graphemic types ______: <>, etc
Note that the first of these could have been <>.
script characters ______: , according to their meanings.
sub-characters ________: same as the script characters.
script generators ______: {| Dev}

Example 2: Transliterations into Latin script

Case-insensitive 7-bit transliteration:: One example is aa;sramapii.danam, or at the beginning of a sentence, Aa;sramapii.danam
Case-sensitive 7-bit transliteration:: Here we might have ACramapIDanam
Case-insensitive 8-bit transliteration:: The standard system gives

Example 3: Fast-lane analysis and transliteration

An interesting Sanskrit word is

meaning 'the front ends of the shafts of a chariot':

script characters ____:
script generators ____: {| Dev}

Transliteration:: pra_ugam. -- where _ here is the meta-sign for vowel hiatus and "." is the punctuation mark transliterating the danda, |.

Copyright (C) Anthony P. Stone 1997. This material may be freely used, provided the author is acknowledged Last updated: 10 June 2002