What is the codepoint / sequence of codepoints to generate this symbol?

[Patrick CHEW via Indic]

A cursory web search seems to show three renderings:

(1) completely missing/omitting the complex glyph and replacing with a simpler anusvara:

https://upanishads.org.in/upanishads/3/1/2/15
 
सर्वे वेदा यत्पदमामनन्ति तपांसि

(2) rendering as -rtha- :

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a3/%E0%A4%B8%E0%A4%A4%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%AF%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%B0%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%A5_%E0%A4%AA%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%B0%E0%A4%95%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%B6.pdf

सर्वे वेदा यत्पदमामनन्ति तपार्थसि

(3) as the candrabindu-virama codepoint (U+A8F3), despite visual  variance with the scanned image provided:

https://sanskritdocuments.org/doc_upanishhat/katha.html?lang=sa

सर्वे वेदा यत्पदमामनन्ति तपाꣳसि (ँ् > ꣳ)

Which is “correct”?
I don’t know, but... I’d likely try and look at other handwritten manuscripts that wouldn’t be digitally constrained...
A question for you might be, “what makes the provided image’s typesetting more “valid” than the others?”

cheers,

[Apologies for any typos – typed with my thumbs and subject to the most amusing auto-correct (or not), i.e. typed on my iPhone]

> On Jan 12, 2020, at 21:10, आलोक कुमार (नौ दो ग्यारह) via Indic <indic at unicode.org> wrote:
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> 
> Can anyone help me with the unicode representation of the symbol after the पा in the fourth word in the attached file?
> 
> If you have trouble viewing it, I posted it online at https://twitter.com/alok/status/1216563416501903360/photo/1 as well.
> 
> https://sanskritdocuments.org/doc_upanishhat/katha.html?lang=sa encodes the fourth word as तपाꣳसि
> 
> Which means that the symbol is equated to U+A8F3. That may well be correct, or it may not be, as the visual representation is different. 
> 
> Much appreciated, thanks.
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