Sanskrit Transliteration Tool
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This is a tool for romanisation of Sanskrit texts written in the Devanagari
script using the International Alphabet of Sanskrit Transliteration (IAST).

The program is able to perform bidirectional transliteration: by default, it
romanises Sanskrit texts written in Devanagari using the IAST scheme;
alternatively it can be used for reverse transliteration of IAST encoded texts
into Devanagari.

Given to the fact that the IAST standard handles only the classic Sanskrit
character set, it cannot be used for lossless transliteration of modern Hindi.
It can, however, be used for lossy transcription of Hindi.

For more details on the usage of the program and the requirements for the input
data, see the included manual page iast(1).


Licensing Notice
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This software is released under the terms of the GPL license version 2 as
published by the Free Software Foundation. You can freely redistribute and/or
modify the software under the terms of the license.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT
ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS
FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

For more information on details of the license, see the file COPYING.