07 July 2008

Errors and Oṃ vs Auṃ

While I do my very best to get things right on this site - I want it to be authoritative - occasionally I make errors of spelling in mantras. I recently discovered a real howler in the short Vajrayoginī mantra! (leaving off vowel markers in Tibetan). I have now corrected this. Apologies is this caused confusion.

I also took the time to change the Devanāgarī oṃ from this one - ॐ - to this - ओं. This is more than cosmetic since the ॐ is actually transliterated as auṃ rather than oṃ. The former is the long vowel the latter is short. (See also below). I use a web transliteration tool to create Devanāgarī text for the site and this was tuned to create ॐ even when I wrote oṃ, but I've now found a work around which is to use the Hindi version. Now that I've done this on one page I've realised that I need to make it more clear on the oṃ page! Which is an example of the law of unintended consequences I suppose.

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