Dear Andrew,

Sorry for the self-promotion, but you might find my article ("Anspielungen auf Schriftzeichen in den traditionellen Sanskrit-Grammatiken", Saddharmāmṛtam. Festschrift für Jens-Uwe Hartmann zum 65. Geburtstag, 2018, pp. 527-540) useful in this context (even though it's in German).

And I would definitely argue in favour of retaining such characters in the editions.

Best,

Malgorzata

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Von: "Andrew Ollett via INDOLOGY" <indology@list.indology.info>

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Betreff: [INDOLOGY] Upadhmānīya and Jihvāmūlīya

Dear colleagues,

I am working with a manuscript that uses upadhmānīya and jihvāmūlīya for visarga before p/ph and k/kh respectively:

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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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