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Grantha (Unicode block)

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Plane
  
SMP

Major alphabets
  
Sanskrit Manipravalam

Scripts
  
Grantha

Assigned
  
85 code points

Range
  
U+11300..U+1137F (128 code points)

Unused
  
43 reserved code points

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.

History

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

References

Grantha (Unicode block) Wikipedia