Namaste Jigar,
Yes you are, at least to me
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This is a good question. The AUM (OM) we use which looks like this:
ॐ is actually not a spelled word, but a symbol. Actually, I believe it is derived from a very old script called Brahmi. The Brahmi script is the mother of all native South Asian scripts, and also many scripts of Southeast Asia (Thai, Balinese, Burmese, Javanese, Khmer, etc.). If we were to write the AUM phonetically in Devanagari script, for example, we could write it in one of these formats:
ओम् or ओं or ओउम् and when written phonetically, it does fall under the line. Every script has its own phonetic way of writing AUM, but generally the symbol
ॐ is used.
FYI: not all "Hindian" languages are written under the line. Some (especially Southern scripts) are written on the line as with English.
OM Shanti,
A.
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