29-523: Puttaparthi ( IAST : Puṭṭaparthy ) is a municipality and district headquarters of Sri Sathya Sai district of the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh . It is located in Puttaparthi mandal of Puttaparthi revenue division . The original name of Puttaparthi was Gollapalli. The town is located on the banks of Chitravathi River which is a tributary of Penna River , and is surrounded by undulating hills. It
58-433: 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
87-707: 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
116-511: Is Telugu . Other common languages spoken in Puttaparthi are Tamil , Kannada , Hindi and English. Various national and international languages are understood and spoken due to the presence of national and international devotees. According to the 2011 India census, Puttaparthi has a "total of 4368 residing families. The Puttaparthi village has population of 15088, of which 7370 are males, while 7718 are females... Puttaparthi village has higher literacy rate compared to Andhra Pradesh . In 2011,
145-435: Is actually glottal , not velar . Some letters are modified with diacritics : Long vowels are marked with an overline (often called 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 ,
174-587: Is an airport that handles only flights within the same country . Domestic airports do not have customs and immigration facilities and so cannot handle flights to or from a foreign airport. These airports often have short runways sufficient to handle short or medium haul aircraft and regional air traffic. Security check /metal detectors are used in most countries, but in many cases they were installed decades after security checks for international flights had become commonplace. Most municipal airports in Canada and
203-684: 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 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
232-670: Is the 5th busiest station in Bangalore division of SWR. Puttaparthi Airport (IATA: PUT, ICAO: VOPN) is a domestic airport situated outside the village, 1 km from the Sathya Sai Baba Super Specialty Hospital. "It is a small airport with facilities for chartered flights rather than commercial aircraft. The airport was inaugurated on November 24, 1990 to serve the Super Speciality Hospital for emergency situations. The airstrip
261-416: Is well connected by road to Anantapur (84 km), Bangalore (154 km), Vijayawada (507 km), Tirupati (227 km), Chennai (529 km) and all parts of Anantapur district . Puttaparthi has a railway station named as Sri Sathya Sai Prasanthi Nilayam . The Railway station was inaugurated and became functional on November 23, 2000; Sathya Sai Baba 's 74th birthday. It is about 8.6 km to
290-471: Is widely known for the birthplace and deathplace of the Indian spiritual leader and guru Sathya Sai Baba and his ashram, Prasanthi Nilayam . Puttaparthi means "village of anthills." A local legend says that a cobra snake cursed the village after being hit by a cowherder, which caused the proliferation of anthills in this area. Residing in the state of Andhra Pradesh , the official language in Puttaparthi
319-763: 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 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
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#1732775882143348-727: The United Arab Emirates ). A regional airport is an airport serving traffic within a relatively small or lightly populated geographical area. A regional airport usually does not have customs and immigration facilities to process traffic between countries. In Canada regional airports usually service connections within Canada and some flights to the United States. A few U.S. regional airports, some of which call themselves international airports, may have customs and immigration facilities staffed on an as-needed basis, but
377-486: The United States are of this classification. At international airports in Canada, there are domestic terminals that handle flights within Canada (flying from one Canadian city to another). Additionally, some airports that are named "international" are essentially domestic airports that handles international traffic on an irregular basis. A notable example of this is Osaka International Airport (Itami Airport) in
406-551: The area of Sanskrit studies make use of free OpenType fonts such as FreeSerif or Gentium , both of which have complete support for the full repertoire of conjoined diacritics in the IAST character set. Released under the GNU FreeFont or SIL Open Font License , respectively, such fonts may be freely shared and do not require the person reading or editing a document to purchase proprietary software to make use of its associated fonts. Domestic airport A domestic airport
435-536: 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
464-537: The country's capital/most major city. Examples of larger regional airports include Barcelona–El Prat Airport , Spain and Manchester Airport , England , which are both among Europe's busiest airports and are used by both large and small planes. In countries like France, Germany, and Sweden, a regional airport is an airport for small planes, even though they go to the national hub, just like flights from larger airports. Examples of small regional airports include Coventry Airport and Worship Airport. In northern Norway ,
493-528: 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 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
522-414: The literacy rate of Puttaparthi village was 70.43 % compared to 67.02 % of Andhra Pradesh. In Puttaparthi, male literacy stands at 78.12 % while female literacy rate was 63.20 %." The climate is generally hot and dry throughout the year, summer temperatures ranging from 34–42 °C (93–108 °F) and winter 22–27 °C (72–81 °F). The hotter months are from March until July and
551-619: The milder months are from November until January. The southwest monsoons play a major role in determining the climate. The northeast monsoons are responsible for about one-third of the total rainfall. Some rainfall may be expected during the months of July and August and again from October to December." Puttaparthi is 475 meters (1558 feet) above sea level. The Andhra Pradesh State Road Transport Corporation (APSRTC) operates bus services from Puttaparthi bus station. People visit Puttaparthi from all over India, and most State transport services also supply buses to Puttaparthi. Puttaparthi
580-749: 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
609-512: 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 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,
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#1732775882143638-624: The outskirts of Osaka , Japan . Most of these airports are located in the United States. In the United Kingdom , an example of a domestic airport is Wick Airport , which operates frequent flights to other Scottish airports. Some small countries or regions do not have any public domestic airports, or even public domestic flights, due to their size or political reasons, or due to having alternatives to domestic flights such as high-speed rail (e.g. Belgium , Kuwait , Hungary , Lithuania , Luxembourg , Serbia , Singapore , Slovakia , and
667-471: 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
696-400: 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 is by setting up an alternative keyboard layout . This allows one to hold
725-487: 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
754-472: The vast majority serve domestic traffic only. Aircraft using these airports tend to be smaller business jets , private aircraft and regional airliners of both turboprop propelled or regional jetliner varieties. These flights usually go a shorter distance to a larger regional hub. These airports usually have shorter runways, which exclude heavy planes with much fuel. In European countries, regional airports are often classed as airports that do not serve
783-863: The west of the ashram and 4 kms south of the neighboring village of Kothacheruvu. This station falls under the Bangalore Division of the South Western Railway and lies on the Bangalore–Guntakal railway line . Travel time between the Rail station and Puttaparthi is approximately 15-25 minutes through various modes of transportion; cabs , autorickshaws and APSRTC buses. The town is connected directly by train to Bangalore , Secunderabad , Chennai , Vishakapatnam , Vijayawada , Coimbatore , Mumbai , New Delhi , Bhuvaneshwar and Kolkata . and Sri Sathya Sai Prasanthi Nilayam railway station
812-725: Was constructed by L&T ECC. It was later extended to enable the operation of jet aircraft." It is owned by the Sri Sathya Sai Central Trust and is spread over 450 acres (1.8 km) of land, housing a runway that is 2,230 metres long. The nearest International airport is the Kempegowda International Airport at Devanahalli , a suburb of Bangalore which is about 119 km from Puttaparthi. Sri Sathya Sai International Centre for Sports and Sri Sathya Sai Hill View Stadium are two sporting facilities in Puttaparthi. Hill View Stadium
841-498: Was established in 1985 and is mainly used for cricket with a capacity of 50,000 people. The International Centre for Sports was established in 2006 with indoor facilities for Basketball, Volleyball, Tennis, Squash, Table Tennis, Badminton, Gymnastics and Yoga/Aerobics. 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
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