TRANSLITERATION REPORT, 1896 (CLASSIC REPRINT)

Excerpt from Transliteration Report, 1896This Report states that The Commission took as a basis for its work the Report of the Royal Asiatic Societys Special Committee, and the systems of trans literation usually adopted in France, in Germany, and by the Bengal Asiatic Society. The Commission does not pretend to have discovered a perfectly scientific system.The Council is of opinion that it is advisable to take this Opportunity of recommending the system thus placed before the world. Much care and pains have been taken Over the subject, and there does not seem any probability of further steps being taken, at all events for some years to come. It has come to the decision, therefore, to recommend those Oriental scholars over whom it has influence to endeavour to adopt the system proposed by the Oriental Congress at Geneva. It Observes, however, that there are some slight diversities between the scheme for Sanskrit and that for Arabic, and a few emendations have been suggested to bring them more fully into harmony. The Council, therefore, now republishes, together with its own resolution on the subject, the two systems suggested by the Geneva Congress, and adds a few suggestions (chiefly by way of harmonizing them), together with specimens of transliteration in various languages, so that all Oriental scholars may clearly understand what is recommended.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are i