U+0961 "ॡ" Devanagari Letter Vocalic Ll Unicode Character

U+0961 "ॡ" Devanagari Letter Vocalic Ll is a rarely used vowel character in the Devanagari script, representing the long vocalic form of the retroflex lateral sound, which is a syllable consonant found primarily in Sanskrit transliteration. It is the long counterpart to the character U+0960 "ॡ" Devanagari Letter Vocalic L and is employed in scholarly and liturgical contexts to accurately render ancient Sanskrit texts. This character is part of the Devanagari block in Unicode and is typically Romanized as "ḹ" using the International Alphabet of Sanskrit Transliteration (IAST).