SCRIPTBRIDGE / THE TRANSLITERATION DESK

Carry the distinction.

A writing system can preserve one contrast and merge another. Route a Sanskrit transliteration through two different stops, then bring it home unchanged.

Delivery

ORIGINAL · IAST

Plan → send → compare. Read the stop notes. Choose two different stops that fit the brief and budget. Send a test to see what each conversion did. A route succeeds only if the original IAST text returns exactly.

Choose your stops

First stop →Second stop

Plan your route from the notes above.

What exactly are we testing?

IAST is a romanization used for Sanskrit. Sanscript maps writing conventions; it does not translate meanings or judge a language. A script can preserve some contrasts and use one sign for others. Once two payloads map to the same sign, a later stop cannot reconstruct their original distinction.

These checks demand an exact round trip for the displayed study text. The bundled mapping may choose a conventional reverse spelling that differs even when a reader could infer a sound from context. Read the returned IAST row, not just whether two shapes look similar.

Real engine: Sanscript 1.3.3 and common_maps 1.0.2. Scope: the six listed mappings and short Sanskrit transliteration studies.