Modi Letter Ba

It writes the ba consonant in Modi text.

A following vowel sign changes the syllable, making this a building block inside a word. Modi developed from the Nagari tradition as a flowing script for quick writing. Some accounts credit Hemadpant or Balaji Avaji with its development, though the script evolved over time.

Some histories place its use in the fifteenth century; it took recognizable form in the sixteenth, and the earliest surviving document dates to the early seventeenth century. Modi served Marathi correspondence, revenue records, royal administration and other regional languages. Print favored Balbodh, the Marathi form of Devanagari, in the nineteenth century; standard Marathi shifted away from Modi in the 1950s. It later carried Maratha-era and regional identity.