Any suggestions! (sitdham)

[gruenendahl]

Dear colleague,
since you invited ANY suggestions, I venture a wild guess:
could this spelling point to a source ms. in a South Indian script,
e.g. Malayalam, where -d conjuncts / ligatures are frequently built
with -t?

Best regards

Reinhold Gruenendahl



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