U+1132C "𑌬" Grantha Letter Ba Unicode Character

U+1132C "𑌬" Grantha Letter Ba is a character from the Grantha script, an ancient abugida historically used in South India and Sri Lanka to write Sanskrit, Tamil, and other languages, primarily for religious and scholarly texts. This specific character represents the consonant sound "ba," corresponding to the equivalent letter in the Brahmic family of scripts from which Grantha derives. Its inclusion in the Unicode Standard (specifically in the Grantha block added in version 7.0) allows for the accurate digital representation and preservation of historical manuscripts, inscriptions, and modern liturgical works that utilize this script.