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Sanskrit Roman transliteration

Prabhat Ranjan Sarkar -or Shrii Shrii Anandamurti, the name he signed his spiritual works- developed his own Sanskrit Roman transliteration which he asked to be used in all Ananda Marga publications. Doing so, he maintained through all Ananda Marga publications, the presence of reliable Sanskrit spelling. That transliteration -using only deux diacritic marks (' and ^ ( ̭))- allow also an easy way to be typed on an ordinary keyboard, still maintaining a good legibility. The transliteration used by Western Sanskritists is unfortunatly not well adjusted to tranliterate Bengali for example -which is the more sanskritized living language- and other Indian languages.

a, á, i, ii, u, ú, r, rr, lr, lrr, e, ae, o, ao, aḿ, ah, ka, kha, ga, gha, uṋa, (velar) ca, cha, ja, jha, iṋa, (palatal) t́a, t́ha, d́a, d́ha, ńa, (retroflex) ta, tha, da, dha, na, (dental) pa, pha, ba, bha, ma, (labial) ya, ra, la, va, (semi vowel) sha, śa, sa, ha, kśa.

’ is "a" phonetic elision.

Sanskrit Roman transliteration

Description	Academic	Devanágarii	Ánanda Márga	Alternative AM
Long a	ā	आ	á	a'
Long i	ī	ई	ii
Long u	ū	ऊ	ú	u'
Vowel r/vocalic r	ṛ	ऋ	r
Long Vowel r	ṝ	ॠ	rr
Vowel l (L)	ḷ	ऌ	lr
Long vowel l	ḹ	ॡ	lrr
diphthongs	ए	[eː]	e	E
	ऐ	[aːi]	ai	Ai
	ओ	[oː]	o	O
	औ	[aːu]	au	Au
anusvara	अं	[ⁿ]	ṃ	Ṃ
visarga	ḥ	अः	ah	Ḥ