[INDOLOGY] help with signs in devanagari text

[adheesh sathaye]

Dear Francois, 

>From the Unicode “Vedic Extensions” table (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vedic_Extensions):

Ardhavisarga: U+1CF2
Also: 
Jihvāmūlīya: U+1CF5 
Upadhmānīya: U+1CF6

With best wishes,
adheesh

—
Adheesh Sathaye
University of British Columbia




> On Dec 4, 2019, at 09:53, Madhav Deshpande via INDOLOGY <indology at list.indology.info> wrote:
> 
> Hello François,
> 
>      These signs represent jihvāmūlīya and upadhmānīya, which are sandhi variants of the common visarga, before k, kh and p, ph respectively.  In some Vedic manuscripts, these two have different signs, but the signs as you see in this text are generally called ardhavisarga, referring to their half-circle shapes.
> 
> Madhav M. Deshpande
> Professor Emeritus, Sanskrit and Linguistics
> University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
> Senior Fellow, Oxford Center for Hindu Studies
> 
> [Residence: Campbell, California, USA]
> 
> 
> On Wed, Dec 4, 2019 at 9:43 AM François Patte via INDOLOGY <indology at list.indology.info <mailto:indology at list.indology.info>> wrote:
> Bonjour,
> 
> In an Adyar library edition of Saṃgītaratnākara, I found this sign (see
> attached document).
> I would like to know:
> 1- what is this sign?
> 2- what is its unicode code?
> 3- how to read it?
> 
> Thank you for helping.
> -- 
> François Patte
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