Dear Harry, I cannot say that this is a “standard” but it has become common practice in Tibetan scholarship to use ‘m’ with underdot for the anusvara, and ‘m’ with overdot for candrabindu.
Regards, Paul Hackett > On Mar 2, 2026, at 8:48 AM, Harry Spier via INDOLOGY > <[email protected]> wrote: > > This Message Is From an External Sender > This message came from outside your organization. > Dear everyone, > Daniel BAlogh wrote: > I dare say that as far as IAST can be considered a standard, the "correct" > IAST anusvāra is ṃ > Walter Slaje wrote: > I believe that whether one uses ṃ or ṁ, there will be no undesirable > consequences. > > The reason I asked the question was because of search engines. > The Searchable Sanskrit Library has a search engine covering multiple > collections so all anusvara's (like all other letters in it) need to follow > the same convention (either overdot or underdot) . But it seems that since > all the collections I've seen use m underdot thats been chosen as the de > facto standard. > > Thanks, > Harry Spier > > _______________________________________________ > INDOLOGY mailing list > [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://list.indology.info/mailman/listinfo/indology__;!!BDUfV1Et5lrpZQ!UFHF-ETPsJJluVEHrjNpg9hRS0V4CMMeNN4d65DwBclQCP8QmXni0E5Udhy7Pun-_Bvv19jDrfn2Gaah6-i-iu4kUyU4p7QB$ > > <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://list.indology.info/mailman/listinfo/indology__;!!BDUfV1Et5lrpZQ!UFHF-ETPsJJluVEHrjNpg9hRS0V4CMMeNN4d65DwBclQCP8QmXni0E5Udhy7Pun-_Bvv19jDrfn2Gaah6-i-iu4kUyU4p7QB$>
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