Samskrita Bharati - Script convention

Script convention - ITRANS

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•    All Samskritam words will be in ITRANS notation, and in bold.
•    Once a term is introduced and defined, the Samskritam word will be in use.
•    Names of organizations and projects, even if in Samskritam, will be ‘absorbed’ into English notation (Samskrita Bharati as opposed to saMskR^ita bhaaratii)

Notation Used

This section describes the ITRANS encoding, for Devanagari. This is the basic encoding used for all Indic language scripts. Consult the individual language manuals in the ITRANS archive (ITRANS/doc/*.itx files, also available for online browsing) for exact details on every language supported by ITRANS.
Vowels (dependent and independent):
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a     aa / A       i      ii / I       u     uu / U
RRi / R^i    RRI / R^I    LLi / L^i
e     ai     o     au     aM    aH

Consonants:
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k     kh     g     gh     ~N
ch    Ch     j     jh     ~n
T     Th     D     Dh     N
t     th     d     dh     n
p     ph     b     bh     m
y     r      l     v / w
sh    Sh     s     h      L
x / kSh     GY / j~n / dny     shr

Specials/Accents:
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anusvara:       .n / M / .m (dot on top of previous consonant/vowel)
avagraha:       .a    (`S' like symbol basically to replace a after o)
chandra-bindu: .N    (chandra-bindu on top of previous letter)
halant:        .h    (to get half-form of the consonant - no vowel - virama)
visarga:        H     (visarga - looks like a colon character)
Om:        OM, AUM (Om symbol)

[As shown, many codes have multiple choices, example "RRi / R^i" implies you can use either "RRi" or "R^i"
Some use “S / sh” “e / ee / E” “o / oo / O”]

Source: sanskritdocuments.org / Processing Tools / Reference Summary