@misspellings of nasal l

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Instead of the correct spelling

**tAl~labhasva ताल्ँलभस्व "get 'em!"

you'll see, more often then not, one of —

tAMllabhasva तांल्लभस्व
tAlMlabhasva ताल्ंलभस्व
tAllambhasva ताल्लंभस्व
tAlla~bhasva ताल्लँभस्व
tA~llabhasva ताँल्लभस्व

Those are all technically incorrect. Yet, most devanagari keyboards and fonts were intended for use with Hindi, not Sanskrit, so if you don't know where the /candrabindu is in your keyboard, you might find it convenient to use one of the incorrect spellings.

In HK you can spell **tAl~labhasva ताल्ँलभस्व as —

tA&l labhasva

as the tokunaga rAmAyaNa does, or even

tAl& labhasva

but I personally prefer

tAl~ labhasva

and in a pinch you might just type

tAn labhasva

with a space — that's nonPC but everybody will understand fine and peoplewho know /pANini will very naturally read that aloud as tAl~ labhasva .