From: Ambarish Sridharanarayanan (unicode@ambarish.ksharanam.net)
Date: Thu Jun 07 2007 - 01:50:10 CDT
On 06 June 2007 at 23:36, Marnen Laibow-Koser wrote:
> Yes, the second underlined character is definitely jña (ज्ञ). I've never
> seen anything like the first, but my guess is that it is ṣṭrī (ष्ट्री) --
> but it appears to have a virama underneath as well, which I don't
> understand.
The virama indicates that the 091f is a half-consonant (the inherent vowel
having been suppressed). You don't see this often because most Devanagari
consonants have half-forms and when they combine with the 0930, the
resulting ligature has the half-form with the "forward-slash". 091f is one
of those consonants without a half-form, so it needs an explicit virama.
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