Script - Grantha
Grantha is a script historically used in South India for writing Sanskrit, particularly in Tamil-speaking regions, where it served as a complementary script to Tamil for religious and scholarly texts. In digital text processing, the Grantha value identifies characters that belong to this writing system, encompassing letters, vowel signs, and punctuation marks that are distinct from other Indic scripts like Devanagari or Tamil. This classification enables software to correctly render, sort, and analyze Grantha text, preserving its unique orthographic features such as the use of conjunct consonants and special diacritics. It also helps distinguish Grantha from visually similar scripts, ensuring accurate linguistic data handling and cultural heritage preservation in modern applications.