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A pre-labial breath mark.
Also known as: Labial visarga
The Vedic mark for the voiceless bilabial fricative that replaces a visarga before a p or ph.
Writes the bilabial fricative allophone of the visarga occurring before an unvoiced labial stop.
Contexts: Language and transcription, History
Named from the verb 'to blow upon', again describing the articulation; the two marks together show a phonological rule written into the script rather than left to the reader.
Contexts: Language and transcription, History
Encoded at U+1CF6 in the Vedic Extensions block.
Contexts: Language and transcription, History
A small double-arc mark resembling the jihvāmūlīya, distinguished from it by orientation in most printing traditions and by context always.