[ The alphabets of Telugu and Sanskrit contain letters that  do not have a counterpart in the Roman alphabet. Thus I have used the following scheme to denote the extra letters in Telugu. 1) s as in sura, 2) s´ as in s´iva, 3) n as in nara, 4) ñ as in Gañapati, 5) r as in  rama, 6) r´ as in r´ushi, 7) l as in kalyani, 8) l´ as in varaal´i, 9) t as in nàta, 10) th as in Thyàgaràja.  Furthermore,  it is important to clearly distinguish long and short vowels. I have consistently used an accent above the letter  to indicate long sounds.  Finally, in Telugu, elementary words are often combined to form composite words, through a process called "Sandhi". During this process, a transformation occurs at the junction of the two words, sometimes making it difficult to understand or even pronounce the long composite words. In such cases, I have separated the words by a plus (+) sign. For example, gaganaadhipa is written as gagana+adhipa..]