Grantha Letter Vocalic Rr

𑍠 is Grantha’s independent letter for Sanskrit’s long vocalic r.

Scholarly Sanskrit spelling writes this vowel ṝ: a long r sound that serves as the syllable’s vowel. Its short counterpart is ṛ.

Use 𑍠 when the syllable begins with this vowel; after a consonant, Grantha attaches 𑍄 instead.

Grantha descends from Brahmi. Its forms appear in Pallava inscriptions from the fourth century CE, and the modern script took shape after the thirteenth century CE. In Tamil-speaking settings, Grantha let scribes write Sanskrit sounds not fully represented by the Tamil script. Manuscripts mixed Tamil and Grantha; Manipravalam, a literary style combining Tamil and Sanskrit, used both. Early print obscured this mixed-script practice.