Any suggestions!

[Allen W Thrasher]

There is the epistemological problem how to know whether this is a
question of orthography (spelling) or of calligraphy, i.e. whether the
scribe thought the sign was the equivalent of ta+virama+dha or
d+virama+dha.

Allen



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