Thanks for the response Patrick. I understand your last sentence: the closest you can come to /&eps;/ is using ै
However, in the response given to the following FAQ: http://www.unicode.org/unicode/faq/indic.html#13 you will find this sentence: "This zophola_aa can be seen as a special "composite" matra to write a new Bengali sound, imported from English." This is the kind of thing I am looking for: a 'special composite matra' to write a new sound in Hindi, imported from English.
Mark Davis suggests that: "I just checked with the ICU online demo at http://oss.software.ibm.com/cgi-bin/icu/tr, and "e" is transliterated as U+090E "ऎ" DEVANAGARI LETTER SHORT E*. "
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