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Sorry, they are not different in the Latin script, obviously. Indian scripts, however, are phonetic and the Harvard-Kyoto scheme uses capitals to distinguish various sounds. In the case, the difference is that the feminine (which is what you want) ends in the long a sound as in English car. The male one ends in a short -a sound, which depending on the language can vary between the initial sound of English about, the sound in English cot, or a short version of the sound in English joke.