What ᳑ means
It marks dīpta śruti, a fine pitch quality in Sāmagāna.
Sāmagāna is the sung recitation of the Sāmaveda; this shara sign gives the singer a pitch cue, not a direction to move.
A 1672 Sāmaveda songbook documents the broader practice of guiding chant with numerals and hand gestures. It shows how notation supported performance, but does not date this exact mark.
A 2015 Unicode editorial review compared passages written in Devanagari and Grantha, two scripts used for Sanskrit. The cup-shaped Grantha form supported the reading dīpta śruti rather than an earlier reading of a skipped note. The Unicode names list still includes the older alias, “Vaidika Svarita Urdhva Shara,” as of 2026.
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Questions people ask
2Is ᳑ an arrow?
No. Its arrow-like outline describes its shape; in Sāmagāna it marks pitch, not direction.
Why does ᳑ look different in different fonts?
Fonts can draw and attach this combining mark differently; the character does not prescribe one fixed visible design.
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Codes and encoding1 code points
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