[INDOLOGY] Upadhmānīya and Jihvāmūlīya

[Madhav Deshpande]

Dear Andrew,

   Some grammatical works use the sign "ᳲ" for Upadhmānīya and Jihvāmūlīya,
and these are described as ardhavisargasadr̥śau. If I remember correctly,
the Vājasaneyi-Prātiśākhya says that these two do not occur in the
Mādhyandina-Saṃhitā, probably indicating that they do occur in the Kāṇva
Saṃhitā. So it is possible to find them in the manuscripts of the Kāṇva
saṃhitā.

Madhav

Madhav M. Deshpande
Professor Emeritus, Sanskrit and Linguistics
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
Senior Fellow, Oxford Center for Hindu Studies
Adjunct Professor, National Institute of Advanced Studies, Bangalore, India

[Residence: Campbell, California, USA]


On Fri, Nov 7, 2025 at 11:40 AM Andrew Ollett via INDOLOGY <
indology at list.indology.info> wrote:

> Dear colleagues,
>
> I am working with a manuscript that uses upadhmānīya and jihvāmūlīya for
> visarga before p/ph and k/kh respectively:
>
> [image: Screenshot From 2025-11-07 13-30-45.png]
> [image: Screenshot From 2025-11-07 13-27-24.png]
>
> The script is Śāradā, but I was wondering (a) whether these letters are
> used in printed Devanagari texts at all recently and what their forms are,
> and (b) whether anyone can suggest a Devanagari font that implements them
> correctly. I am wondering whether it might be worthwhile to retain these
> signs in a (Devanagari) edition of the text, or whether I should just
> regularize them to visarga. (The codepoints are in the Vedic Extensions
> Unicode block, although unlike the codepoint for visarga, they are not
> combining characters.)
> Andrew
>
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