In modern Indic scripts, Ḹ is derived from the early "Ashoka" Brahmi letter .

The "Ḹ" sign was used to modify a consonant's value ×108, but the vowel letter did not have an inherent value by itself.

The Brahmi letter Ḹ is only found as a vowel mark, and is derived from the consonant La, and therefore is probably from the Aramaic Lamed .

[2] Several identifiable styles of writing the Brahmi Ḹ can be found, most associated with a specific set of inscriptions from an artifact or diverse records from an historic period.

[3] As the earliest and most geometric style of Brahmi, the letters found on the Edicts of Ashoka and other records from around that time are normally the reference form for Brahmi letters, but Ḹ must be back-formed from later forms to match the reference geometric writing style, and the reference image for the independent letter is just the vowel mark enlarged to the size of a full letter.

It is derived from the Siddhaṃ letter , and is marked a lack of horizontal head line and less geometric shape than its Devanagari counterpart, ॡ.

Ḹ is a non-attaching vowel sign, and does not alter the underlying consonant or contextually shape itself in any way.

No base consonants are altered in form when adding a vowel sign, and there are no consonant+vowel ligatures in Odia.

Ḹ from several modern-use scripts can also be found in legacy encodings, such as ISCII.