Thank you, Christophe. This is still a bit different, though, from North Indian manuscripts reading bhāyi for an expected bāī (no transcription involved).

Martin


On 24 April 2017 at 10:50, Christophe Vielle <christophe.vielle@uclouvain.be> wrote:
For an example of Malayalam (and I suppose Sanskrit) writing bhāyi for what is transcribed in English "Bayi"
https://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/ആയില്യം_തിരുനാൾ_ഗൗരി_ലക്ഷ്മിഭായി