On Saturday 15 October 2011 11:07 AM, Peter Constable wrote:
My copy of the Bangla Academy Bangla-English dictionary generally corroborates Radice, though there are some inconsistencies--cases in which the candrabindu appears over the aa sign, or (in a ya-phalaa cluster) over the ya-phalaa, or between the ya-phalaa and aa sign. (See attached scans.) But these are less frequent: in most cases, it goes over the main consonant.
Peter, I agree that there are many variegated representations. But my gut feeling as a native user of many other Indic scripts and one who has to use the candrabindu a lot due to Sanskrit, is that it should be positioned above the RHS vowel sign if any, else centered over the cluster.
Such a placement would seem natural to the reader as it follows the association of the nasality with the vowel.
-- Shriramana Sharma
