samyuktakshara
संयुक्ताक्षर samyuktaksharaA conjunct: two or more consonants joined into a single ligature with no vowel between them, a characteristic feature of Indian scripts and the reason Devanagari type was hard to cast.
Where this term appears
- The Branching Hand Treatise
When two or more consonants meet with no vowel between them, the letters fuse into a single blended sign called a conjunct , in Sanskrit a samyuktakshara .
- The Press Treatise
( The Branching Hand ) Its difficulty for a type foundry lies in the conjunct consonant , the samyuktakshara , the fused cluster a scribe writes when two or more consonants meet with no vowel between them.