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Devanāgarī consonant letters include an implicit 'a' sound. In
all of the transliteration systems, that 'a' sound must be
represented explicitly. Devanāgarī consonants include an
'inherent a' sound that must be explicitly represented with an
'a' character in the transliteration. Many words and names
transliterated from Devanāgarī end with "a", to indicate the
pronunciation in the original Sanskrit. This final 'inherent a'
is often no longer pronounced in some Sanskrit-derived Indian
languages, including Hindi. This results in an alternative
'modern' transliteration that omits it. Some words keep the
final a, generally because they would be difficult to say
without it: Some Indian languages, like Kannada, continue to use
the original pronunciation today. Some, like Marathi,