An astrological manuscript on which I am working includes a consideration of whether or not a girl is a virgin; the relevant Sanskrit text runs: eṣā kumārikā kila nirdoṣā vi**umātha pṛcchāyāṃ, where the ** represent a compound character that I haven't been able to identify. I would be very grateful for any help with doing so. (I first read it as -ṣṇ-, but I can't make any sense of that.)

I am attaching an image of the word in question, which I hope will make it through; the whole folio is found here (4v, 5 lines from the bottom):
https://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0002/mscoll390_item1850/data/web/2994_0004_web.jpg

The Arabic original on which this work is based phrases the question as 'virgin or widow'; the medieval Latin translation is more free: virgo vel corrupta. But I can't think of a Sanskrit word vi**umā that would cover either sense, with two (or more) consonants in the second syllable. It might even be a vernacular word, of which there are one or two other instances in the text.

The text has been misidentified on the UPenn site (as I have informed them), but the verse in question does occur in another, homonymous work (partly based on the present one), of which there are plenty of MSS and editions. However, the versions I have seen do not include the unidentified word but rather simple readings like nirdoṣā jātadoṣā vā or nirdoṣā kiṃ na veti pṛcchāyām. I believe the lectio difficilior of the present MS might be preferable, if I could only work it out!

Best wishes,
Martin Gansten