[INDOLOGY] Unknown sign in a Nepalese MS

[Dominik Wujastyk]

I am looking for help with these signs that I'm seeing in the
fifteenth-century Nepalese MS,  MS Kathmandu NAK 5-333
<https://www.panditproject.org/entity/102310/manuscript>:

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and

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Here, the surrounding word is pāke

These symbols are not letters, since they don't contribute to the
surrounding text, but interrupt it.  I have wondered whether they are the
scribe expressing that his archetype has a string-hole at this place,
perhaps, but I don't see the symbols often enough for that.  They occur
rather rarely.

Has anyone seen these?

Best,
Dominik

--
Professor Dominik Wujastyk
<https://apps.ualberta.ca/directory/person/wujastyk>
,

Singhmar Chair in Classical Indian Society and Polity
,

Department of History and Classics <http://historyandclassics.ualberta.ca/>
,
University of Alberta, Canada
.


South Asia at the U of A:

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SSHRC research: The Suśruta Project <http://sushrutaproject.org>
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