It is difficult for non-indic thinking person to understand the absurdity of the concept of virama sitting after a vowel. The virama is meant to strip a consonant of its inherent vowel "a". As a side effect of this it combines two consonants when it sits between then. It is not an exclusive combining mark so that it can combine a vowel (how can you strip a vowel of its inherent vowel?)and a consonsnt as unicode FAQ asks its to be. As per history of the letter A_YAPAHALAA_AA, there is no mention of this composite in original "Varna Parichay- Part 2" by Iswarchandra Vidyasagar, -unanimously considered by bengalies the original alphabet of modern Bengali. This was probably added later to tranliterrate words like Academic from English. It should not be coded as a_virama-aakaar as for reasons mentioned above. Even ileap - the iscii word processor considered it to be a separate moderen vowel and placed it corrosponding to the chandra_a in Devanagari.
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