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Fractions of a rupee as glyphs.
Also known as: Bengali anna marks
The Bengali signs writing the fractional parts of a rupee in older commercial and revenue documents.
Write the fractional divisions of a rupee in Bengali revenue and commercial documents.
Contexts: History
Belong to the pre-decimal money of sixteen annas to the rupee; decimalisation in 1957 made the notation obsolete for money while leaving it in the archive, which is why it is encoded but not current.
Contexts: History
A short closed set of stroke-built glyphs, each standing for a fixed fraction, written before or above the denominator mark.