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A two-faced nasal mark.
The Vedic nasalisation mark drawn facing both ways, used in particular recensions of the Vedic text.
Writes a nasalisation in the Vedic text where the recension distinguishes it from the ordinary anusvāra.
Contexts: Language and transcription, History
One of roughly a dozen distinct Vedic anusvāra forms Unicode encodes separately, because the recensions genuinely use different shapes and conflating them would lose the recension.
Contexts: Language and transcription, History
A nasal mark with symmetrical projections to left and right, distinguishing it from the plain dot of the ordinary anusvāra.