upaadhmaaniiya and jihvaamuuliiya

[Masato Fujii]

goodall at vax.ox.ac.uk wrote$B!'(J
>While reading with a friend I recently noticed the apparently consistent use 
of
>a symbol for the upaadhmaaniiya (the jihvaamuuliiya did not appear at all) 
>in an early Nepalese palm-leaf manuscript. 
>Can anybody tell me about the use in manuscripts of the upaadhmaaniiya and the
>jihvaamuuliiya?  They are commonly used in Kashmirian manuscripts even of
>non-Vedic texts and I imagine that they are to be found in manuscripts of 
Vedic
>texts outside Kashmir; but do they commonly occur in other contexts than 
these?
>Dominic Goodall.
> 
>
   According to my experience of reading Vedic mss., the upadhmaaniiya appears 
constantly also in Malayalam mss. (mostly marked with a small circle)  and 
sometimes in Grantha mss.(a circle with a cross inside), but the jihvaamuuliiya 
does not. 
 

Masato FUJII
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