Early Inscriptions of Āndhradeśa
Conventions
Transliteration
We follow the standard ISO 15919, except that we use the raised circle ° instead of colon : to mark vowel hiatus, and extend this convention to transliterate all independent vowel signs as °V. Also, we used the median dot · to mark virāma, which in this corpus hardly ever takes the form of an explicit stroke, but rather is implied by the akṣara to be read without inherent a being written at reduced size and in lowered position. Thus, m· means an akṣara <ma> written at reduced size and in lowered position, and to be read without inherent vowel.
Editorial symbols
| [ ] | reading would be uncertain if element occurred in isolation (whether due to damage or not) |
| ( ) | editorial restoration of lost text |
| ⟨ ⟩ | editorial addition of omitted text |
| ⟪ ⟫ | scribal insertion |
| { } | editorial deletion of redundant text |
| {{ }} | scribal deletion |
| . | lost part of an akṣara |
| . . . | indeterminate number of akṣaras missing |
| ? | illegible akṣara |
| + | lost akṣara |
| /// | textual loss at left or right edge of support |
| ◊ | punctuation space |
| • | punctuation dot |
| ◯ | ring hole |
| □ | interruption in line due to material defect in support |