Here is a more authoritative answer: !. Pali is a subset of Sanskrit 2. The Sanskrit sorting order is as Monier-Wiliams gives and it matches vyAkaraNa books. http://www.sanskrit-lexicon.uni-koeln.de/scans/MWScan/tamil/index.html
You can place dark el where ever you want to because Sanskrit does not have it. Please respect the tradition. Thank you. On Sun, Jul 8, 2012 at 6:40 PM, Naena Guru <[email protected]> wrote: > Sorry to disconcert you. sir. > > I just gave the Singhala order. Singhala is the script of Pali. The l > and ḷ together makes sense. It is not inSanskrit anyway. But the <aṃ>, > <a>, <ā> order is not Singhala or Sanskrit order, not in any grammar book. > Anusvara comes after vowels and diphthings. But you are determined to apply > your own order. That's your choice. This I wrote generally for others to > note. > > On Sat, Jul 7, 2012 at 8:41 PM, Richard Wordingham < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> On Sat, 7 Jul 2012 17:43:41 -0500 >> Naena Guru <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> > This is the Pali sorting order in PTS Pali. The Last letter is the >> > retroflex L: >> > a ā i ī u ū >> > e o >> > aṃ aaṃ iṃ iiṃ uṃ uuṃ >> > eṃ oṃ >> > k kh g gh ṅ >> > c ch j jh ñ >> > ṭ ṭh ḍ ḍh ṇ >> > t th d dh n >> > p ph b bh m >> > y r l v >> > s h >> > ḷ >> >> Disconcertingly, no. <ḷ> follows <l>, sorted as a primary difference. >> Otherwise, the consonants do follow the normal Indic script order. >> >> Also, the first three vowels are <aṃ>, <a>, <ā>. >> >> This information wasn't what I needed, but thank you for the attempt >> to help. >> >> Richard. >> >> >> >
