Talk:Mahābhāṣya
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[edit] Requested moves
- The following discussion is an archived discussion of the proposal. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.
Mahābhāṣya contains special characters that are not standard. The more common spelling in literary works as well as encyclopedias is Mahabhasya (without the special characters). For eg. see Britannica. Most of the Google results for Mahābhāṣya return Wikipedia mirrors[1]. Most of the Wikipedia-independent articles, books and write-ups use Mahabhasya or Mahabhasya. I think the use of non-standard special characters in the article is unnecessary. It should be moved to Mahabhasya. 220.227.179.5 14:11, 24 March 2007 (UTC)
- Rename. Other articles such as Mahayana are similarly named without the special characters. –Pomte 10:38, 27 March 2007 (UTC)
- Oppose Diacritics aren't "non-standard".--Húsönd 02:51, 29 March 2007 (UTC)
- I don't mean to say that the diacritics are "non-standard" -- what I mean is that in this case, Mahabhasya is more commonly used spelling than Mahābhāṣya -- for eg. see Encyclopædia Britannica entry on Mahabhasya. There is no official transliteration scheme for Sanskrit/Devanagari -- this case is similar to Hindī and Hindi; since Hindi is the more commonly used spelling, the article exists at Hindī per Wikipedia:Naming conventions (use English). 220.227.179.4 08:40, 29 March 2007 (UTC)
- Oppose Sanskrit is generally transcribed with diacritics. It's crucial in determining the specific phonemes. Serious English texts often do use the full form (as opposed to simplifying it for simplicity). Examples include:
- Process and language : a study of the Mahābhāṣya by Hideyo Ogawa.
- Critical studies on the Mahābhāṣya by V P Limaye.
- The Mahābhāṣya of Patañjali : with annotations by Surendranath Dasgupta and Sibajiban Bhattacharyya.
- Development of Sanskrit language : during the period between Mahābhāṣya and Kāśikā by P Visalakshy.
- Three problems pertaining to the Mahābhāṣya by Johannes Bronkhorst.
... among many others that you can find at a good library. As I always argue: when multiple spellings exist, opt for the most correct and ensure that redirects exists for the others. That seems to be the case here. Bendono 11:17, 29 March 2007 (UTC)
- The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the proposal. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on this talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.
It was requested that this article be renamed but there was no consensus for it be moved. --Stemonitis 14:39, 29 March 2007 (UTC)
