cha

[Peter M. Scharf]

Dear Colleagues,
	I would like to request your help in answering a question regarding  
how to name or categorize a certain character in the Unicode  
Standard.  Many Indic manuscripts use a decorative character that  
looks like a devanagari cha without the horizontal bar to fill space  
between dandas or double dandas at the end of manuscripts or between  
chapters of a manuscript.  (flower shapes are often used similarly.)   
Have any of you seen the "cha" pu.spikA in manuscripts or  
publications of Buddhist, Jain, or other clearly non-Vedic (in the  
broadest sense of the term) textual traditions?  If so, could you  
provide a reference and or a digital image?
	Thanks.
	Peter



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