Vedic Tone Three Dots Below

It marks a low pitch in one Vedic recitation notation.

Vedic recitation marks pitch across syllables; a pause is a break in the spoken chant. Here, ᳟ marks a low-sounding syllable linked to an underlying udātta (a high-pitched syllable) just before a pause or one syllable earlier; it also covers a pattern with another udātta after the pause. Vedic traditions can recite the same underlying pattern at different surface pitches.

In Weber’s printed Śatapatha-brāhmaṇa, a Vedic prose text, ᳟ is part of an editorial notation. Two stacked copies (᳟᳟) signal a svarita after the pause: a pitch that falls from high to low.

Why do Vedic editions use different dot counts?

Printed editions record chanting patterns in different ways.

For a pattern with a high-pitched syllable before a pause and another after it, the Vaidikayantralaya edition uses two dots, Weber’s uses three, and the Acyuta Granthamālā edition leaves the place unmarked. For a related pause pattern, Weber prints two stacked groups of three dots where another edition uses two. These are edition-specific ways to write the notation, not universal pitch values.

How should I place ᳟ in a word?

Put it after the vowel it marks, before visarga or nasal signs.

It is a combining mark, so alone it does not form a syllable.

Its on-screen position depends on font support; a font with poor mark placement can leave the dots detached.