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Chandrabindu (IAST: , in Sanskrit) is a diacritic sign with the form of a dot inside the lower half of a circle. It is used in the Devanagari (ँ), Bengali-Assamese (ঁ), Gujarati (ઁ), Odia script (ଁ), Tamil script (◌𑌁 Extension used from Grantha script), Telugu script (ఁ), Kannada script (◌ಁ), Malayalam script (◌ഁ), Sinhala script (◌ඁ), Javanese script ( ꦀ) and other scripts.
It usually means that the previous vowel is nasalization.
In Hindi, it is replaced in writing by anusvara when it is written above a consonant that carries a vowel symbol that extends above the top line.
In Classical Sanskrit, it seems to occur only over a lla, yya, or vva conjunct consonant, to show that it is pronounced as a nasalized double l, y, or v which occurs if they have become assimilated in sandhi.
In Vedic Sanskrit, it is used instead of anusvara to represent the sound anunasika when the next word starts with a vowel. It usually occurs where in earlier times a word ended in -ans.
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