Transliterate Urdu Quran text to Devanagari script

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Adds a complete Urdu-to-Devanagari transliteration of the Jalandhry Urdu Quran translation.

Changes Made

src/urdu_to_devanagari.py (new)

A character-level transliteration engine with:

• Two-character aspirated combos processed first (بھ→भ, پھ→फ, کھ→ख, دھ→ध, etc.)
• ~85 word-boundary-safe substitutions for the most frequent Urdu words (الله→अल्लाह, اور→और, نہیں→नहीं, خدا→ख़ुदा, تم→तुम, اس→उस, جس→जिस, پھر→फिर, کچھ→कुछ, نہ→न, ایک→एक, ایسا→ऐसा, شیطان→शैतान, پیدا→पैदा, بھی→भी, and 70+ more)
• Context-sensitive ی/و: vowel matra (ī/o) after a consonant, consonant (य/व) at word-start
• ا/آ → ा after consonant, अ/आ standalone; ں→ं; ے→े; standalone ھ→ह
• Urdu punctuation mapped: ،→, ؟→? ۔→।
• Honorific signs (ؑ, ؓ) and ﷺ preserved unchanged

output/quran_urdu_devanagari_jalandhry.txt (new)

• 6,582 lines covering all 114 Surahs and all 6,236 verses
• Verified in 100-line batches; zero untranslated Urdu words remain (only intentional honorific signs preserved)
• Surah titles and verse number markers kept in original English/numeric format

src/gentxtforquran.py (updated)

• Imports moved to module level (PEP 8)
• Calls transliterate_file() at end of run so the Devanagari file is regenerated automatically alongside all other output files

Testing

• ✅ All 6,236 verse markers verified to match the source Urdu file exactly
• ✅ No untranslated Arabic/Urdu characters remain in verse lines (only 26 intentional honorific signs)
• ✅ python3 src/urdu_to_devanagari.py and python3 src/gentxtforquran.py both run successfully
• ✅ Output spot-checked across all 114 Surahs

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[druvx13]

@copilot you can try again

[Copilot]

@copilot you can try again

Done! The transliteration is now complete (commit 31599ee).

What was done:

• src/urdu_to_devanagari.py — full character-level Urdu→Devanagari engine with ~85 word-boundary-safe substitutions for the most common Urdu words
• output/quran_urdu_devanagari_jalandhry.txt — all 6,236 verses transliterated; verified in batches with zero untranslated Urdu words remaining (only honorific signs ؑ/ؓ/ﷺ preserved as-is per spec)
• src/gentxtforquran.py updated to regenerate the Devanagari file automatically

Sample (Surah 1):

[1:1] शुरू अल्लाह का नाम ले कर जो बड़ा महरबान नहायत रहम वाला है
[1:2] सब तरह की तारीफ़ ख़ुदा ही को (सज़ावार) है जो तमाम मख़लोक़ात का परवरदगार है
[1:5] (ए परवरदगार) हम तेरी ही इबादत करते हैं और तुझ ही से मदद मानगते हैं