[Python] Combining Devanagari characters

I have something like

a = "बिक्रम मेरो नाम हो"


I want to achieve something like

a[0] = बि
a[1] = क्र
a[3] = म


but as म takes 4 bytes while बि takes 8 bytes I am not able to get to that straight. So what could be done to achieve that? In Python.

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