ISO 15919 Transliteration Scheme for Devanagari

अ a क् k ढ् ḍh र् r
आ ā ख् kh ण् ṇ ल् l
इ i ग् g त् t व् v
ई ī घ् gh थ् th श् ś
उ u ङ् ṅ द् d ष् ṣ
ऊ ū च् c ध् dh स् s
ऋ r̥ छ् ch न् n ह् h
ॠ r̥̄ ज् j प् p ़ ṁ
ऌ l̥ झ् jh फ् ph : ḥ
ए ē ञ् ñ ब् b ऽ ’
ऐ ai ट् ṭ भ् bh
ओ ō ठ् ṭh म् m
औ au ड् ṅ य् y

Note: This scheme has been used. However, except in the few footnotes with His Holiness’s joint use of Tamil and Sanskrit in a phrase, ‘ए’ has been transliterated as ‘e’ and ‘ओ’ as ‘o’; this is allowed in the case of languages with no short-syllabic forms of these two vowels.