It's not a symbol. It's a word. It's pronounced "Yam". The script in which it is written, (Devanagri) isn't that old. The sound "Yam" is older, as old as Yoga itself (at least 5k years back). Sanskrit was written in other scripts as well, so in other scripts it wouldn't look like यं.
It's not a symbol. It's a word. It's pronounced "Yam". The script in which it is written, (Devanagri) isn't that old. The sound "Yam" is older, as old as Yoga itself (at least 5k years back). Sanskrit was written in other scripts as well, so in other scripts it wouldn't look like यं.
And before that it was an entirely oral language.