The International Alphabet of Sanskrit Transliteration (IAST) is a popular
transliteration scheme that allows a lossless transliteration of
Indic scripts.IAST is the most popular transliteration scheme for romanization of
Sanskrit and
Pali. It is often used in printed publications, especially for books dealing with ancient Sanskrit and
Pali topics related to
Indian religions. With the wider availability of
Unicode fonts, it is also increasingly used for electronic texts.
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