Eyelash Ra in Marathi

[Manish Goregaokar via Indic]

Thanks. These texts were in Maharashtra and it was clearly Devanagari
(aside from the weird ra), however. Still, there might be a shared history
with the newa ra.

On Dec 31, 2017 11:01 PM, "Anshuman Pandey" <pandey at umich.edu> wrote:

> 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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