strange circumflex

[wujastyk]

In witness R of the Rasendramaṅgala edition, I've got a word that has an unexpected circumflex on the final vowel: dadhatê. And it disappears when I hover the mouse over the MS siglum in the apparatus. Help!

dadhate-2023-12-11_19.14.14.mp4

[chchch]

The ê with circumflex was the convention I made up, once upon a time, to transcribe pṛṣṭhamātras. It looks like in witness B, the e is written with a pṛṣṭhamātra, while in the other witnesses it isn't. If you switch to Devanāgarī view, it should show up properly. I like transcribing pṛṣṭhamātras especially to see when they've been interpreted by later copyists as a long ā attached to the previous consonant.

[chchch]

Just a note here to think about whether there is a better convention for pṛṣṭhamātras, and for other script-specific conventions (e.g., Bengali khaṇḍa -t, Telugu valapalagilaka, etc.). These could be handled with XML tags, but it would be exhausting to type <g ref="khada-t">t</g> every time. This could possibly be handled by defining XML entities, e.g. &KhandaT;, &PrsthaE;, etc.

[wujastyk]

I don't have any suggestions here, sorry. Unless, perhaps, a non-ambiguous accent, like vowel+underdot (ọẹ)