बौधायन श्रौतसूत्रम् (कृष्ण यजुर्वेद तैत्तिरीय शाखा - सम्पूर्ण प्रश्न एवं श्रौत-याग कल्प सटीक)

न्त्यorदक्षिणोऽड्वन्त्यorदक्षिणोऽङ्कन्त्य: Notice the shape: it looks extremely like दक्षिणोऽङ्कन्त्यपहताorदक्षिणोऽड्वन्त्यपहता. Wait, let's look at the letter again: Could it be दक्षिणोऽङ्कन्त्यपहता? Let's look at the dot of ङ: is there a dot? No dot. But in ligatures with ङ (like ङ्क, ङ्ग, ङ्ख, ङ्घ), traditional Devanagari NEVER puts a dot on ङ! The dot is only used for the isolated letter ङ. For example, ङ्ग in line 3 अङ्गिरवोhas NO dot on the ङ part! So ङ् without dot + क below = ङ्क! Therefore, this glyph is unmistakablyङ्क! Wait, what about the ligature with न्त्य? It is: दक्षिणोऽङ्कन्त्यपहता! Wait, could it be दक्षिणोऽङ्क्त्यपहता? Look at न्त्यin line 2: It has: half-न (left loop, horizontal bar) half-त (vertical stroke with left curve) ya (loop up and down with right vertical bar). Compare withचयन्तिright after:न्तिhas न-त-इ. Compare withगच्छन्तु: न्तु