Eyelash Ra in Marathi

Anshuman Pandey via Indic indic at unicode.org
Sun Dec 31 11:31:05 CST 2017


Hi Manish,

The variant of RA you describe seems to be similar to the form used in Newa, ie. U+1142C. I’m not sure about its derivation.

All my best,
Anshu


> On Dec 30, 2017, at 11:32 PM, Manish Goregaokar via Indic <indic at unicode.org> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Marathi's Balbodh version of Devanagari has the Eyelash Reph, which is an alternate way of writing the <ra-virama> reph half form, and can be seen in र्‍य (as opposed to र्य, which uses the regular reph).
> 
> I recall seeing this same form used to make a full letter र (ra) in older texts at museums. These were written in Devanagari/Balbodh, but the use of the "eyelash ra" seems to be reminiscent of the Modi "ra". Basically, it looked something like र्‍ा, but with a longer and more curved eyelash.
> 
> I'm unable to find instances of this anymore (it's been a while since I saw this in museums, I don't recall which ones this was at). If it's a distinct letter form like the eyelash reph it might be worth encoding. Does anyone know of this letter form and where I can find it?
> 
> Thanks,
> -Manish
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