U+1132E "𑌮" Grantha Letter Ma Unicode Character

U+1132E "𑌮" Grantha Letter Ma is a character from the Grantha script, an ancient abugida historically used in South India and Sri Lanka for writing Sanskrit, Tamil, and Manipravalam texts. This specific character represents the consonant sound "ma," equivalent to the Devanagari letter "म" and the Tamil letter "ம," and it functions as a purely consonantal glyph that requires inherent vowel suppression or diacritic attachment to denote different vowel sounds. Historically, the Grantha script played a crucial role in preserving classical Hindu and Jain literature, as well as in composing religious and philosophical works before the widespread adoption of modern scripts. Today, the Grantha Letter Ma is encoded in Unicode to support digital preservation and scholarly research of these historic manuscripts and inscriptions.