17-2002: [REDACTED] Look up Aśviṇi or अश्विनी in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Ashwini , Ashvini , Aswini , or Asvini may refer to: Ashvini , the first nakshatra (lunar mansion) of Hindu astrology Ashwini (film) , a 1991 Indian Telugu-language film " Ashwini Ye Na ", a 1987 Marathi song from Gammat Jammat , sung by Kishore Kumar and Anuradha Paudwal People [ edit ] Ashwini (actress) (1967–2012), Indian actress Ashwini Akkunji (born 1987), Indian athlete Ashwini Bhave , Indian actress Ashwini Bhat (born 1980), Indian-American ceramic artist Ashwini Bhatt (1936–2012), Gujarati-language novelist from Indian Ashwini Bhide-Deshpande (born 1960), Hindustani classical music vocalist Ashwini Ekbote (1972–2016), Indian theatre and screen actress and classical dancer Ashwiny Iyer Tiwari , Indian filmmaker Ashwini Kalsekar (born 1970), Indian film and television actress Ashwini Kapoor (born 1965), Indian cricketer Ashwini Kumar Dutta (1856–1923), Indian educationist, philanthropist, social reformer and patriot Ashwini Nachappa (born 1967), Indian athlete and actress Ashwini Ponnappa (born 1989), Indian badminton player Ashwini Roy Sarkar , Indian politician from Bharatiya Janata Party, Assam Ashwini Sharma , Indian politician from Bharatiya Janata Party, Punjab Ashwini Vaishnaw , (born 1970), Indian politician, Minister for Railways Ashvini Yardi , Indian producer of Bollywood films C. Ashwini Dutt , Indian film producer in Telugu cinema Simone Ashley , born Simone Ashwini Pillai, British-Indian actress See also [ edit ] All pages with titles containing Ashwini All pages with titles containing Ashvini Ashwin (disambiguation) Topics referred to by
34-568: A macron ). Vocalic (syllabic) consonants, retroflexes and ṣ ( / ʂ ~ ɕ ~ʃ/ ) have an underdot . One letter has an overdot: ṅ ( /ŋ/ ). One has an acute accent : ś ( /ʃ/ ). One letter has a line below: ḻ ( / ɭ / ) (Vedic). Unlike ASCII -only romanisations such as ITRANS or Harvard-Kyoto , the diacritics used for IAST allow capitalisation of proper names. The capital variants of letters never occurring word-initially ( Ṇ Ṅ Ñ Ṝ Ḹ ) are useful only when writing in all-caps and in Pāṇini contexts for which
51-433: A font, etc. It can be enabled in the input menu in the menu bar under System Preferences → International → Input Menu (or System Preferences → Language and Text → Input Sources) or can be viewed under Edit → Emoji & Symbols in many programs. Equivalent tools – such as gucharmap ( GNOME ) or kcharselect ( KDE ) – exist on most Linux desktop environments. Users of SCIM on Linux based platforms can also have
68-653: Is also used for major e-text repositories such as SARIT, Muktabodha, GRETIL, and sanskritdocuments.org. The IAST scheme represents more than a century of scholarly usage in books and journals on classical Indian studies. By contrast, the ISO 15919 standard for transliterating Indic scripts emerged in 2001 from the standards and library worlds. For the most part, ISO 15919 follows the IAST scheme, departing from it only in minor ways (e.g., ṃ/ṁ and ṛ/r̥)—see comparison below. The Indian National Library at Kolkata romanization , intended for
85-567: Is believed to be advantageous to begin works of a precise or delicate nature while the moon is in Ashvini. Ashvini is ruled by the Ashvinas , the heavenly twin brother gods who served as physicians to the gods and goddesses. Ashvini is represented by the bee hive . Traditional Indian names are determined by which pada (quarter) of a nakshatra the Ascendant was in at the time of birth. In
102-782: Is by setting up an alternative keyboard layout . This allows one to hold a modifier key to type letters with diacritical marks. For example, alt + a = ā. How this is set up varies by operating system. Linux/Unix and BSD desktop environments allow one to set up custom keyboard layouts and switch them by clicking a flag icon in the menu bar. macOS One can use the pre-installed US International keyboard, or install Toshiya Unebe's Easy Unicode keyboard layout. Microsoft Windows Windows also allows one to change keyboard layouts and set up additional custom keyboard mappings for IAST. This Pali keyboard installer made by Microsoft Keyboard Layout Creator (MSKLC) supports IAST (works on Microsoft Windows up to at least version 10, can use Alt button on
119-478: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Ashvini Ashvini (अश्विनी, IAST : aśvinī ) is the first nakshatra ( lunar mansion ) in Indian astronomy having a spread from 0°-0'-0" to 13°-20', corresponding to the head of Aries , including the stars β and γ Arietis . The name aśvinī is used by Varahamihira (6th century). The older name of
136-781: The Transliteration Committee of the Geneva Oriental Congress , in September 1894. IAST makes it possible for the reader to read the Indic text unambiguously, exactly as if it were in the original Indic script. It is this faithfulness to the original scripts that accounts for its continuing popularity amongst scholars. Scholars commonly use IAST in publications that cite textual material in Sanskrit, Pāḷi and other classical Indian languages. IAST
153-524: The asterism, found in the Atharvaveda (AVS 19.7; in the dual ) and in Panini (4.3.36), was aśvayúja , "harnessing horses". This nakshatra belongs to Mesha Rasi. Notable personalities born in this nakshatra are Sania Mirza , Bhimsen Joshi , Yukta Mookhey . Ashvini is ruled by Ketu , the descending lunar node. In electional astrology , Ashvini is classified as a small constellation, meaning that it
170-503: The case of Ashvini, the given name would begin with the following syllables: Chu, Che, Cho, La. IAST The International Alphabet of Sanskrit Transliteration ( IAST ) is a transliteration scheme that allows the lossless romanisation of Indic scripts as employed by Sanskrit and related Indic languages. It is based on a scheme that emerged during the 19th century from suggestions by Charles Trevelyan , William Jones , Monier Monier-Williams and other scholars, and formalised by
187-536: The consumer edition since XP. This is limited to characters in the Basic Multilingual Plane (BMP). Characters are searchable by Unicode character name, and the table can be limited to a particular code block. More advanced third-party tools of the same type are also available (a notable freeware example is BabelMap ). macOS provides a "character palette" with much the same functionality, along with searching by related characters, glyph tables in
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#1732765290578204-631: The convention is to typeset the IT sounds as capital letters. For the most part, IAST is a subset of ISO 15919 that merges the retroflex (underdotted) liquids with the vocalic ones ( ringed below ) and the short close-mid vowels with the long ones. The following seven exceptions are from the ISO standard accommodating an extended repertoire of symbols to allow transliteration of Devanāgarī and other Indic scripts , as used for languages other than Sanskrit. The most convenient method of inputting romanized Sanskrit
221-700: The opportunity to install and use the sa-itrans-iast input handler which provides complete support for the ISO 15919 standard for the romanization of Indic languages as part of the m17n library. Or user can use some Unicode characters in Latin-1 Supplement, Latin Extended-A, Latin Extended Additional and Combining Diarcritical Marks block to write IAST. Only certain fonts support all the Latin Unicode characters essential for
238-471: The right side of the keyboard instead of Ctrl+Alt combination). Many systems provide a way to select Unicode characters visually. ISO/IEC 14755 refers to this as a screen-selection entry method . Microsoft Windows has provided a Unicode version of the Character Map program (find it by hitting ⊞ Win + R then type charmap then hit ↵ Enter ) since version NT 4.0 – appearing in
255-486: The romanisation of all Indic scripts , is an extension of IAST. The IAST letters are listed with their Devanagari equivalents and phonetic values in IPA , valid for Sanskrit , Hindi and other modern languages that use Devanagari script, but some phonological changes have occurred: * H is actually glottal , not velar . Some letters are modified with diacritics : Long vowels are marked with an overline (often called
272-468: The same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Ashwini . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ashwini&oldid=1259834527 " Categories : Disambiguation pages Disambiguation pages with given-name-holder lists Hidden categories: Short description
289-487: The transliteration of Indic scripts according to the IAST and ISO 15919 standards. For example, the Arial , Tahoma and Times New Roman font packages that come with Microsoft Office 2007 and later versions also support precomposed Unicode characters like ī . Many other text fonts commonly used for book production may be lacking in support for one or more characters from this block. Accordingly, many academics working in
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