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@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
UFR de mathématiques et informatique
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