Grantha is a Unicode block containing the ancient Grantha script characters of 6th to 19th century Tamil Nadu and Kerala for writing Sanskrit and Manipravalam.

Grantha[1][2] (PDF)
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U+1130x𑌀𑌁𑌂𑌃𑌅𑌆𑌇𑌈𑌉𑌊𑌋𑌌𑌏
U+1131x𑌐𑌓𑌔𑌕𑌖𑌗𑌘𑌙𑌚𑌛𑌜𑌝𑌞𑌟
U+1132x𑌠𑌡𑌢𑌣𑌤𑌥𑌦𑌧𑌨𑌪𑌫𑌬𑌭𑌮𑌯
U+1133x𑌰𑌲𑌳𑌵𑌶𑌷𑌸𑌹𑌻𑌼𑌽𑌾𑌿
U+1134x𑍀𑍁𑍂𑍃𑍄𑍇𑍈𑍋𑍌𑍍
U+1135x𑍐𑍗𑍝𑍞𑍟
U+1136x𑍠𑍡𑍢𑍣𑍦𑍧𑍨𑍩𑍪𑍫𑍬
U+1137x𑍰𑍱𑍲𑍳𑍴
Notes 1.^ As of Unicode version 17.0 2.^ Grey areas indicate non-assigned code points

History

The following Unicode-related documents record the purpose and process of defining specific characters in the Grantha block:

VersionFinal code pointsCountL2 IDWG2 IDDocument
7.0U+11301..11303, 11305..1130C, 1130F..11310, 11313..11328, 1132A..11330, 11332..11333, 11335..11339, 1133D..11344, 11347..11348, 1134B..1134C, 11360..1136365Ganesan, Naga (2009-04-22), Proposal to Encode the Grantha Script in the Basic Multilingual Plane (BMP) of ISO/IEC 10646
Ganesan, Naga (2009-04-22), Proposal to encode the Grantha Script in the Basic Multilingual Plane (BMP) of ISO/IEC 10646
Dias, Gihan (2009-05-09), Re: Grantha Proposal
Lata, Swaran (2009-05-11), Encoding of Grantha Script in the Unicode Standard
Sharma, Shriramana (2009-08-02), Re: Grantha Proposal
Karlsson, Kent (2009-08-06), Comments on L2/09-141, Proposal to Encode the Grantha Script…
Sharma, Shriramana (2009-08-15), Comments on Mr Ganesan's Grantha Proposal
Sharma, Shriramana (2009-09-26), Comments on Kent Karlsson's document L2/09-277
Lata, Swaran (2009-10-09), Letter from Swaran Lata concerning Grantha Proposal
Sharma, Shriramana (2009-10-11), Why jihvamuliya and upadhmaniya characters are not proposed for Grantha
Sharma, Shriramana (2009-10-24), Proposal to encode the Grantha script in Unicode
Ganesan, Naga (2009-10-31), Comment on L2/09-372 (Number of Viramas in closely related Malayalam and Grantha scripts)
Kulkarni, M. D. (2010-01-27), Proposal to encode the Grantha script in the BMP of the UCS
Anderson, Deborah; McGowan, Rick; Whistler, Ken (2010-01-28), Summary and Assessment of Grantha Proposals
McGowan, Rick; Anderson, Deborah (2010-02-17), Revised Chart and Names List for Grantha based on L2/10-053
Sharma, Shriramana (2010-03-12), Feedback to Dr Anderson's Grantha Summary dt 2010-Jan-28
Anderson, Deborah; McGowan, Rick; Whistler, Ken (2010-05-05), "8", Review of Indic-related L2 documents and Recommendations to the UTC
Sharma, Shriramana (2010-07-27), Follow-up #2 to my Grantha proposal L2/09-372
Sharma, Shriramana (2010-08-03), Request from scholars of the Grantha user community #2
Sharma, Shriramana (2010-08-03), Comments on L2/10-194
Anderson, Deborah; McGowan, Rick; Whistler, Ken (2010-08-06), "Name Change for GRANTHA SIGN ANUNASIKA", Review of Indic-related L2 documents and Recommendations to the UTC
Lata, Swaran (2010-08-10), Letter regarding Grantha encoding
Moore, Lisa (2010-08-23), "D.8, D.1.12", UTC #124 / L2 #221 Minutes
McGowan, Rick; Anderson, Deborah (2010-08-26), Revised Chart and Names List for Grantha
Sharma, Shriramana (2010-09-14), Encoding sub-base Grantha vowel signs for Vocalic L and LL
Jain, Manoj (2010-10-18), Unicode Standard for Grantha Script, Summary of the Meeting Sept 6th, New Delhi
Jain, Manoj (2010-10-18), Proposal to encode the Grantha script in Unicode
Anderson, Deborah; McGowan, Rick; Whistler, Ken (2010-10-27), "I. GRANTHA", Review of Indic-related L2 documents and Recommendations to the UTC
Nakkeeran, P. R. (2010-11-01), Feedback on Grantha Unicode Committee meeting minutes - reg.
Kaviarasan, Va.Mu.Se. (2010-11-01), Response to L2/10-426 and L2/10-447 and any other proposals requesting to add characters to represent Tamil or Tamil Block
Karunanidhi, M. (2010-11-06), Letter from Gov't of Tamil Nadu re Grantha
Palaniappan, Sudalaimuthu (2010-11-06), Letter to Lisa Moore re Grantha Encoding
Constable, Peter (2010-11-29), E-mail regarding Grantha sub-base vocalic L/LL and Vedic Tone Asterisk Above
Kaviarasan, Va.Mu.Se. (2011-01-07), Response to Govt. of India Proposal L2/10-426
Annamalai, E. (2011-01-14), My views on Encoding Grantha in Unicode
Kaviarasan, Va.Mu.Se. (2011-01-18), Press release from Gov't Tamil Nadu re Grantha
Ganesan, Naga (2011-01-21), Diacritic Marks for Short e & o Vowels (Dravidian and Vedic) in Devanagari (North India) and Grantha (South India)
Ganesan, Naga (2011-01-21), Letter from Prof. S. Raju regarding the addition of 5 Dravidian characters to Grantha block in Unicode
Logasundaram, N. D. (2011-01-25), Views, opinions and suggestions on Proposals submitted on on Grantham, an historic INDIC Script into SMP by learned individuals & Institutions
Shanker, R. (2011-01-27), Letter to Mark Davis from Gov't of India
Sundaravelu, J. (2011-01-30), Opposition to Unification of Grantham and Tamil Scripts in the Unicode
Ganesan, Naga (2011-01-31), Letter from Dr.R.Nagaswamy re Grantha
Manivannan, Mani (2011-01-31), INFITT Working Group comments on the Grantha encoding proposals
Dias, Gihan (2011-01-31), Position of the ICT Agency of Sri Lanka on the encoding of the Grantha Script
Ganesan, Naga (2011-02-01), Dravidian Letters in Tamil Grantha Script Some Notes in Their History of Use
Fernando, Albert (2011-02-01), Letter to Lisa Moore re Grantha Proposals L2/10-426 and L2/10-447
Anderson, Deborah; McGowan, Rick; Whistler, Ken (2011-02-02), "I. GRANTHA", Review of Indic related L2 documents and Recommendations to the UTC
McGowan, Rick; Anderson, Deborah (2011-02-02), Grantha Compromise Chart
Arockiasamy, M. (2011-02-03), An Appeal to the Unicode Tech. Committee
Eraiyarasan, B. (2011-02-06), Comments on Tamil Unicode and Grantham Proposals
Uthayasoorian, K. (2011-02-06), Inclusion of Tamil Characters in Proposed Grantham Block
Ramakrishnan, T. (2011-02-07), Requesting the UTC to Reject Proposals to Mix Tamil and Grantha
Muthukumarasamy, Arivoli (2011-02-08), Comments of the Grantha Proposal L2/10-426
Anderson, Deborah; Sharma, Shriramana (2011-02-10), Two Outstanding Indic-related Topics from November 2010 UTC
Logasundaram, N. D. (2011-02-14), More views, opinions and suggestions as feedback on proposal of encoding Grantham
Ganesan, Naga (2011-02-18), Dravidian letters in Grantha block in Unicode - regarding
Anderson, Deborah; McGowan, Rick; Whistler, Ken (2011-04-27), "1. Grantha", Review of Indic-related L2 documents and Recommendations to the UTC
Shanker, N. Ravi (2011-05-09), Letter to Mark Davis from N. Ravi Shanker, Gov't of India
Letter from Gov't of India to Mark Davis, May 10, 2011, re Grantha encoding, 2011-05-09
McGowan, Rick; Anderson, Deborah (2011-05-16), Grantha Compromise Chart
Proposal to encode the Grantha script [summary form only], 2011-07-22
Anderson, Deborah; McGowan, Rick; Whistler, Ken (2011-07-27), "I. GRANTHA", South Asian subcommittee report
Palaniappan, S. (2011-08-04), Comment on UTC document L2/11-186
Moore, Lisa (2011-08-16), "D.6", UTC #128 / L2 #225 Minutes
Anderson, Deborah (2011-11-04), Proposed Additions to ISO/IEC 10646
Sachithananthan, Maravanpulavu (2012-01-12), Letter regarding Grantha encoding
Logasundaram, N. D. (2012-04-25), Encoding of Grantham in SMP
Ganesan, Naga (2012-05-01), Brief Comments on UTC register documents (May 2012) on Grantha script encoding
Logasundaram, N. D. (2012-05-08), Clarification of Grantham comments
, )"M59.09", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 59, 2012-09-12
Logasundaram, L. D. (2013-04-14), The Sanskrit language must not be cloned inside the digital world
Anderson, Deborah; McGowan, Rick; Whistler, Ken; Pournader, Roozbeh (2013-04-26), "13", Recommendations to UTC on Script Proposals
Ganesan, Naga (2013-04-29), Comment on L2/13-065: Grantha characters from other Indic blocks such as Devanagari, Tamil, Bengali are NOT the solution
Sharma, Shriramana (2014-09-11), Unification of Tamil and Grantha numerals
Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken; McGowan, Rick; Pournader, Roozbeh; Iancu, Laurențiu; Glass, Andrew; Constable, Peter; Suignard, Michel (2014-10-27), "2. Tamil and Grantha", Recommendations to UTC #141 October 2014 on Script Proposals
U+1133C1Hosken, Martin (2015-10-26), Proposal to Add Tamil Nukta Character
Moore, Lisa (2015-11-16), "Consensus 145-C10", UTC #145 Minutes
U+1134D1Sharma, Shriramana (2009-08-02), Re: Grantha Proposal
Sharma, Shriramana (2009-08-15), Comments on Mr Ganesan's Grantha Proposal
Sharma, Shriramana (2009-10-06), Further clarification on Grantha virama-ligatures
Ganesan, Naga (2010-05-01), Proposal to encode Grantha Chillu marker sign in Unicode/ISO 10646
Ganesan, Naga (2010-05-10), Grantha Chillu Marker at U+1134E in Unicode SMP, Comment on Section 8.d, L2/10-167
Sharma, Shriramana (2010-06-11), Official submission of a request regarding the Grantha Chillu Marker
Sharma, Shriramana (2010-06-20), Request from scholars of the Grantha user community
Sharma, Shriramana (2010-07-20), Comments on L2/09-345, 10-062 and 10-154
Sharma, Shriramana (2010-07-27), Follow-up #2 to my Grantha proposal L2/09-372
Shastri, Krishnamurti (2010-07-30), Comments on Grantha encoding
Sharma, Shriramana (2010-08-03), Comments on L2/10-194
Ganesan, Naga (2010-08-06), Comment on L2/10-285: Handwritten styles in Tamil, Grantha, and English scripts - Touching vowel signs and viramas
Anderson, Deborah; McGowan, Rick; Whistler, Ken (2010-08-06), "Chillu, Grantha User-feedback", Review of Indic-related L2 documents and Recommendations to the UTC
Ganesan, Naga (2010-08-09), Proposal for a Grantha Character Name - Ligating Prepausal Virama at U+1134F
Sharma, Shriramana (2010-09-17), On the GC of 1134D Grantha Sign Virama
Ganesan, T. (2010-10-08), Letter regarding Grantha vowelless consonants
Sharma, Shriramana (2010-10-10), Finalizing the Grantha virama model
Jain, Manoj (2010-10-18), Unicode Standard for Grantha Script, Summary of the Meeting Sept 6th, New Delhi
Nachimuthu, Krishnaswamy (2010-10-18), Letter regarding Grantha virama
Niklas, Ulrike (2010-10-21), Letter regarding Prepausal Virama (Grantha)
Sharma, Shriramana (2010-10-22), Response to L2/10-414 on the GRANTHA "PREPAUSAL" VIRAMA
Ganesan, Naga (2010-10-26), Comment on L2/10-406: Grantha Prepausal Ligated Virama
Anderson, Deborah; McGowan, Rick; Whistler, Ken (2010-10-27), "I. GRANTHA", Review of Indic-related L2 documents and Recommendations to the UTC
Ganesan, Naga (2010-10-29), Consonant Clusters that need 3 sequences in Unicode Encoding in Grantha script
Sharma, Shriramana (2012-08-21), Comments on L2/09-405, 10-297, -298 and -303
Sharma, Shriramana (2013-11-10), Finalizing the Grantha virama model
Ganesan, Naga (2014-01-20), Plain-text Ligating Virama Representation for Grantha script
Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken; McGowan, Rick; Pournader, Roozbeh; Iancu, Laurențiu (2014-01-26), "6", Recommendations to UTC #138 February 2014 on Script Proposals
Ganesan, Naga (2014-04-28), ZWJ Joiner for Chillu Consonants of Grantha Script
Sharma, Shriramana (2014-05-02), Comments on L2/14-097 re using ZWJ for Grantha "chillus"
Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken; McGowan, Rick; Pournader, Roozbeh (2014-05-02), "4", Recommendations to UTC #139 May 2014 on Script Proposals
Ganesan, Naga (2014-07-21), Control Characters (Joiners ZWNJ and ZWJ) in the Grantha Visible Virama and Chillu Consonants
Ganesan, Naga (2014-07-22), Chillu examples
Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken; McGowan, Rick; Pournader, Roozbeh; Iancu, Laurențiu (2014-07-28), "2", Recommendations to UTC #140 August 2014 on Script Proposals
Ganesan, Naga (2014-10-14), ZWJ for Grantha pre-pausal half-consonants (chillus)
Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken; McGowan, Rick; Pournader, Roozbeh; Iancu, Laurențiu; Glass, Andrew; Constable, Peter; Suignard, Michel (2014-10-27), "1. Grantha", Recommendations to UTC #141 October 2014 on Script Proposals
Sharma, Shriramana (2014-10-29), Handling variation in vowelless consonant forms in Grantha
Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken; McGowan, Rick; Pournader, Roozbeh; Glass, Andrew (2015-01-30), "2. Grantha", Recommendations to UTC #142 February 2015 on Script Proposals
Ganesan, Naga (2015-02-03), Revised Proposal for Plaintext Grantha Chillu Representation
U+113571Sharma, Shriramana (2009-10-25), Request for encoding 11355 GRANTHA LENGTH MARK
Sharma, Shriramana (2012-08-21), Follow-up to L2/09-374
U+1135D1Sharma, Shriramana (2010-08-21), Request to encode 1135D GRANTHA SIGN PLUTA
Anderson, Deborah; McGowan, Rick; Whistler, Ken (2010-10-27), "I. GRANTHA", Review of Indic-related L2 documents and Recommendations to the UTC
Moore, Lisa (2010-11-09), "D.1, D.1.7", UTC #125 / L2 #222 Minutes
U+1135E..1135F, 11366..1136C, 11370..1137414Sharma, Shriramana (2010-07-09), Proposal to encode Vedic characters for the Grantha script
Sharma, Shriramana (2010-08-04), Comments on L2/10-274
Anderson, Deborah; McGowan, Rick; Whistler, Ken (2010-08-06), "Vedic Characters for Grantha", Review of Indic-related L2 documents and Recommendations to the UTC
Moore, Lisa (2010-08-23), "D.8", UTC #124 / L2 #221 Minutes
8.0U+113001Sharma, Shriramana (2013-03-04), Proposal to encode 1137D Grantha Sign Combining Anusvara Above
Anderson, Deborah; McGowan, Rick; Whistler, Ken; Pournader, Roozbeh (2013-04-26), "11", Recommendations to UTC on Script Proposals
Kumar, Rajendra (2013-05-10), Letter from Gov't of India to Lisa Moore re recent documents
Moore, Lisa (2013-06-12), "Consensus 135-C19", UTC #135 Minutes, Accept U+1137D GRANTHA SIGN COMBINING ANUSVARA ABOVE for encoding in a future version of the standard, with properties as given in L2/13-061.
Sharma, Shriramana (2013-09-04), Request to reallocate one character within the Grantha block
Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken; McGowan, Rick; Pournader, Roozbeh (2013-10-31), "9", Recommendations to UTC #137 November 2013 on Script Proposals
Moore, Lisa (2013-11-18), "Consensus 137-C16", UTC #137 Minutes, Change the codepoint for U+1137D Grantha Sign Combining Anusvara Above from U+1137D to U+11300.
, )Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2014-01-28), "10.3.14 Grantha Anusvara Above", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 61, Holiday Inn, Vilnius, Lithuania; 2013-06-10/14
, )Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2014-09-16), "M62.05a, M62.05c", Minutes of WG 2 meeting 62 Adobe, San Jose, CA, USA
U+113501Ganesan, Naga (2010-02-02), A note on Grantha OM sign (Comment on L2/10-053)
Anderson, Deborah; McGowan, Rick; Whistler, Ken (2010-05-05), "6", Review of Indic-related L2 documents and Recommendations to the UTC
Sharma, Shriramana (2010-07-20), Comments on L2/09-345, 10-062 and 10-154
Rajan, Vinodh (2010-07-28), Comments on Grantha OM
Ganesan, Naga (2010-08-02), Usage Evidence for Grantha OM glyph
Sharma, Shriramana (2010-08-04), Comments on L2/10-274
Anderson, Deborah; McGowan, Rick; Whistler, Ken (2010-08-06), "GRANTHA OM", Review of Indic-related L2 documents and Recommendations to the UTC
Sharma, Shriramana (2010-08-10), Follow-up to L2/10-267
Moore, Lisa (2010-08-23), "D.8", UTC #124 / L2 #221 Minutes
Sharma, Shriramana (2013-04-10), Proposal to encode 11350 GRANTHA OM
Anderson, Deborah; McGowan, Rick; Whistler, Ken; Pournader, Roozbeh (2013-04-26), "12", Recommendations to UTC on Script Proposals
Ganesan, Naga (2013-04-29), Comment on L2/13-062: Grantha OM in U+11350 code point
Kumar, Rajendra (2013-05-10), Letter from Gov't of India to Lisa Moore re recent documents
Moore, Lisa (2013-06-12), "Consensus 135-C18", UTC #135 Minutes, Accept U+11350 GRANTHA OM for encoding in a future version of the standard, with properties as given in L2/13-062.
, )Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2014-01-28), "10.3.13 Grantha Om", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 61, Holiday Inn, Vilnius, Lithuania; 2013-06-10/14
11.0U+1133B1Hosken, Martin (2015-10-26), Proposal to Add Tamil Nukta Character
Moore, Lisa (2015-11-16), "D.2.1", UTC #145 Minutes
Moore, Lisa (2016-01-21), Comments from Vasu Renganathan re Tamil Nukta
Elangovan, Naga; Ramasamy, Krishnan; Logasundaram, N. D. (2016-01-22), Comments on the "Proposal to Add Tamil Nukta Character-L2/15-256"
Sharma, Shriramana (2016-01-28), On the usage of nuktas in Tamil
Ganesan, Naga (2016-04-20), Proposal to Encode Single-dot Sign at U+1133B Comment on M. Hosken's Badaga dot sign Proposal (L2/15-256)
Sharma, Shriramana (2016-05-02), Comments on L2/16-084 "Proposal to encode single dot sign at 1133B"
Moore, Lisa (2016-05-20), "D.9 Badaga dot sign", UTC #147 Minutes
Ganesan, Naga (2016-07-26), Character Name of U+1133B
Sharma, Shriramana (2016-08-02), Request to rename 1133B to GRANTHA SIGN ONE-DOT NUKTA
Moore, Lisa (2016-08-18), "D.13", UTC #148 Minutes
Ramachandran, Thiru T. K. (2017-07-28), Letter from Thiru T.K.Ramahandran to Lisa Moore (re Combining Bindu)
Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken; Constable, Peter; Suignard, Michel; Liang, Hai (2017-08-02), "9. From Srinidhi A and Sridatta A", Ad Hoc Recommendations on PRI 352 and PRI 353
Moore, Lisa (2017-08-17), Letter to T.K.Ramahandran Re: U+1133B COMBINING BINDU BELOW