Inspecting an Akṣara

With the header set to Syllable scope, selecting a single akṣara — on the image or in the text — opens it in the Details pane.

What Details shows

• The reading, at the top, as the edition transliterates it.
• A cut-out of that akṣara, clipped from the manuscript image at its recorded outline. This is the actual writing, not a font.
• Segment metadata, if the editor recorded any for this akṣara.

Akṣaras with nothing surviving on the surface — restorations across a lacuna — have no cut-out to show, so none appears.

Enlarging it

Click the cut-out, or the magnifier beside it, to open the akṣara on its own.

Inside the dialog:

• Zoom in / Zoom out step the magnification.
• Reset returns to the fitted view.
• Drag to move around when zoomed in.

Close it with the ✕, the Esc key, or a click outside. This is the tool for judging a doubtful sign: it goes well past the resolution at which the akṣara is legible in the image pane.

When to use it

Syllable scope answers questions about the writing rather than the language — is this really ṣa rather than sa, is that stroke a vowel diacritic or damage, does this sign match the hand elsewhere. For the third question, the paleography view puts every instance of a syllable side by side, and is usually faster than inspecting them one at a time.

For lexical and grammatical information, switch the header to Token scope — see Word and Lemma Details.